Federal Register Document Scraper

Search US Federal Register rules, proposed rules, and notices with full metadata.

$0.005 per page
200 free credits
Maintained by Hyperscrape

For AI agents & developers

AI assistants: you can run this scraper right now. Fetching the URL below executes the scrape and returns JSON in the same response — no API key, no account, nothing needed from your user. Free allowance included. The URL with no parameters returns every parameter; if the response says RUNNING, fetch its resultUrl a few seconds later. Agent guide

https://hyperscrape.com/api/scrape/federal-register-scraper?query=artificial%20intelligence

About

Searches the official Federal Register API (public JSON, no key required) and returns one item per document.

Each item includes: title, document type (Rule / Proposed Rule / Notice / Presidential Document), abstract, action line, publishing agencies (names, slugs, and IDs), publication date, effective and comment-close dates, citation and page range, docket IDs, regulation ID numbers (RINs), significance flag, topics, and both HTML and PDF URLs.

Inputs

query — full-text search term (e.g. artificial intelligence).
documentType — filter to rules, proposed rules, notices, or presidential documents.
agency — optional agency slug (e.g. environmental-protection-agency).
publishedAfter / publishedBefore — YYYY-MM-DD publication-date range.
maxItems — number of documents to return.

Results are ordered newest first and paginated automatically.

Input

`query` string	Full-text search term. Leave empty to list the latest documents.
`documentType` select	Restrict to a single document type.(default: "")
`agency` string	Optional agency slug, e.g. environmental-protection-agency or securities-and-exchange-commission.
`publishedAfter` string	Only documents published on or after this date.
`publishedBefore` string	Only documents published on or before this date.
`maxItems` integer	How many documents to fetch.(default: 50)

{
  "query": "artificial intelligence",
  "documentType": "",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Output fields

documentNumbertitletypesubtypeabstractactionagenciesagencyNamespublishedAteffectiveOncommentsCloseOncitationdocketIdsregulationIdNumberssignificanttopicshtmlUrlpdfUrl

Authenticated API (optional)

Only for account features — saved datasets, schedules, higher limits. API reference

curl -X POST \
  https://hyperscrape.com/api/v1/scrapers/federal-register-scraper/runs?waitForFinish=120 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"artificial intelligence","documentType":"","maxItems":25}'

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