Federal Register Scraper — Rules, Notices & Proposed Rules

What this Actor scrapes

Every US federal rule, proposed rule and notice lands in the Federal Register first, which makes it the earliest public signal that a regulation affecting your industry is moving. The official API paginates in a way that stops at 2,000 records per query and buries the agency names in a nested block. This Actor pages it properly, flattens agencies into one readable column, and hands you a dated regulatory feed you can filter in a spreadsheet.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — the target sees a real browser TLS handshake, not a script.
• 🌐 Proxy rotation — fresh exit on every block through Apify Proxy.
• 🔁 Retries with backoff — 408 / 429 / 5xx retried up to five times, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧊 Clean, typed rows — schema-validated output with ISO-8601 timestamps.
• 💰 Pay per result — no data, no result charge.

Use cases

• Monitor proposed rules touching your industry before the comment window closes.
• Build a regulatory-change feed for a compliance or legal team.
• Track one agency's output over a quarter for a policy report.
• Assemble a dated evidence trail of rulemaking on a single topic.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "searchTerm": "emissions",
  "publishedFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

document_numbertitletypeabstractpublication_dateagencieslead_agencyhtml_urlpdf_url

{}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.

Limitations

• Returns document metadata and links, not the full rule text or the public comments.
• A single query cannot exceed 2,000 documents — that is an API limit, not an Actor one.