# DOJ Press Releases Scraper | US Justice Department (`parseforge/doj-press-releases-scraper`) Actor

Extract US Department of Justice press releases with title, date, topic, components, and full body text. Filter by topic and date range. Useful for compliance teams, legal researchers, and journalists tracking federal investigations and prosecutions.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/doj-press-releases-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Other
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $19.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## ⚖️ DOJ Press Releases Scraper

> 🚀 **Export every Department of Justice press release in seconds.** Indictments, charges, settlements, and official statements from the US DOJ.

The US Department of Justice publishes press releases from every component, US Attorney's Office, and headquarters division. This scraper pulls the full archive (over 265,000 releases) via the official justice.gov API and returns them as structured records ready for analysis or alerting.

Each record returns the title, release number, publication date, issuing component (e.g. Office of the Attorney General, US Attorney's Office, FBI), topic, teaser, and full body text with HTML stripped. Sort newest or oldest, filter by search term.

| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Journalists, compliance, law firms, researchers, OSINT analysts | Monitoring enforcement actions, tracking US Attorney activity, training legal LLMs, alert systems on new charges |

### 📋 What the DOJ Press Releases Scraper does

- Pulls press releases from the official justice.gov public API
- Filters by search term across title
- Sorts newest or oldest first
- Returns full plain-text body with HTML stripped
- Paginates automatically to your requested maxItems

> 💡 **Why it matters:** New DOJ charges drop with no public notice. Catching them on publication day is the difference between writing the story and reading it.

### 📊 Data fields

Each record includes: `body`, `components`, `number`, `publicationDate`, `results`, `scrapedAt`, `teaser`, `title`, `topic`, `url`. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

> ⚠️ **Good to Know:** The DOJ API returns the same content as justice.gov. Older archived releases redirect to their archive URLs.

### 🚀 How to use

1. [Create a free Apify account with $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp)
2. Open this Actor
3. Set filters
4. Click Start
5. Download CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

| Actor | Description |
|---|---|
| Federal Register Scraper | Daily federal rules, notices, proposed rules |
| Congress.gov Bills Scraper | US legislative bills |
| GAO Reports Scraper | Government Accountability Office reports |
| CourtListener RSS Scraper | Court opinions and dockets |
| FARA Foreign Agents Scraper | Foreign Agents Registration Act filings |

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge).

> **⚠️ Disclaimer:** Independent tool, not affiliated with the US Department of Justice. Only publicly available data is collected.

### 🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our [contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA) or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

For faster answers, join our [Discord](https://parseforge.co/discord). It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerm` (type: `string`):

Free-text search inside DOJ press releases. Leave empty for all.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

How many press releases to collect per run.

## `sortDirection` (type: `string`):

Sort by publication date.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "sortDirection": "DESC"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/doj-press-releases-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxItems": 10 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/doj-press-releases-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call parseforge/doj-press-releases-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/doj-press-releases-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Cj6ICU7D09zILFtO3/builds/lGg5yZNCE2A0D8nMt/openapi.json