Federal Register Rules & Notices Scraper (USA)

Extract rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents from the U.S. Federal Register, the daily journal of the federal government with over 90 years of public records. Every record carries the full regulatory picture: agencies (with IDs), Federal Register volume and citation, effective and comment-close dates, docket IDs and RIN, the public inspection and PDF/HTML links, plus the direct regulations.gov comment link, live public comment count and document popularity so you can prioritise what matters.

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38 fields per record

United States coverage

JSON / CSV / Excel output formats

Who is it for

Use case	Who benefits
Track new rules and proposed rules by keyword	Compliance and legal teams
Monitor a specific agency's rulemaking	Government affairs and lobbyists
Collect comment deadlines for proposed rules	Regulatory affairs professionals
Build a searchable archive of presidential documents	Researchers and journalists
Feed regulatory data into an internal alerting system	Data and engineering teams

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the Federal Register cover and how far back does it go? The Federal Register is the official daily publication of the U.S. federal government and includes final rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents from federal agencies. The underlying public data goes back to 1994 in full text and to 1936 in metadata, so you can search both recent and historical documents.

How many documents can I collect in a single run? You can set the Max Items value as high as you need. The scraper paginates through every matching document one hundred at a time, so a broad search across a wide date range can return thousands of records in one run.

Can I filter by document type, agency and date at the same time? Yes. You can combine a search term, one or more document types, one or more agencies and a publication date range. Leaving a filter empty simply removes that restriction, so you can be as broad or as narrow as you want.

Why are some fields like effective date or proclamation number empty? Those fields only exist for certain document types. Effective date and comment deadlines appear on rules and proposed rules, while signing date, proclamation number and executive order number appear on presidential documents. Empty values reflect the source data and are never invented.

What happens if a document has no details available? The scraper always returns the listing level fields for every document. When Fetch full document details is on, it makes one extra request per document to add the body, topics and page range. If a detail request fails, the listing fields are still returned so you never lose a record.

Example use cases

Ready-to-run example tasks, each preconfigured for a common scenario. Open one and press run, or use it as a template:

• FAA Aviation Safety Rules from the Federal Register: Scrape FAA airworthiness and aviation safety rules from the Federal Register. Pull titles, effective dates, CFR references, and full text URLs as data.
• FDA Drug Approval Rules & Notices from the Federal Register: Extract FDA drug approval rules and notices from the U.S. Federal Register. Pull titles, dates, agencies, and full text URLs into structured data.
• Import Tariff & Trade Notices from the Federal Register: Scrape import tariff and trade rules and notices from the U.S. Federal Register. Collect titles, publication dates, agencies, and full text URLs in bulk.
• IRS Income Tax Rules & Proposed Rules from Federal Register: Extract IRS income tax final and proposed rules from the U.S. Federal Register. Collect titles, publication dates, agencies, and CFR references in bulk.
• Labor Department Overtime & Wage Rules from Federal Register: Extract Department of Labor overtime and wage rules from the Federal Register. Get titles, dates, agencies, and document links in structured, ready to use data.
• Presidential Documents & Executive Orders from Register: Extract presidential documents and executive orders from the U.S. Federal Register. Get titles, signing dates, document numbers, and full text URLs as data.
• SEC Crypto & Digital Asset Rules from the Federal Register: Scrape SEC rules, proposed rules, and notices on crypto and digital assets from the Federal Register. Get titles, dates, and document links as structured data.
• Track Federal AI Rules and Notices: Track Federal AI Rules and Notices
• Monitor Environmental Regulations: Monitor Environmental Regulations
• Track Immigration Rules and Notices: Track Immigration Rules and Notices

Export, API and AI agents (x402 + MCP)

Export the scraped data to JSON, CSV or Excel, pull it as a dataset through the Apify API, or wire it into your app with no code. This web scraper and data extractor also works for bulk data extraction and scheduled runs.

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This actor is an independent tool and has no affiliation with the Federal Register or the U.S. government. It only accesses data that is publicly available through the official Federal Register API. Use it in accordance with the Federal Register's terms of service.