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Federal Register monitor for new federal rules, proposed rules and regulatory notices from the free Federal Register API: agencies, effective and comment dates, abstract, CFR references, significance and an impact score. No login, no proxy, no personal data.
| Field | Name | Required | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
documentTypes | Document types | no | Which Federal Register document types to read. Leave empty for final rules and proposed rules. |
daysBack | Publication window (days) | no | Keep documents published in the last N days. |
searchTerm | Search term | no | Optional full-text search, for example "cybersecurity" or "emissions". |
agencies | Agency slugs | no | Optional agency slugs from federalregister.gov/agencies, for example environmental-protection-agency or food-and-drug-administration. |
significantOnly | Significant documents only | no | Turn on to keep only documents the agency marks as significant. |
openCommentPeriodOnly | Open comment period only | no | Turn on to keep only documents whose public comment period has not closed yet. |
minImpactScore | Minimum impact score | no | Optional 0 to 100. Keep only rows at or above this score. |
maxItems | Max rows | no | Stop after this many rows, newest first. You pay only for rows delivered. |
One row per result. These are the 18 fields declared in the actor's dataset schema (field list from the schema, not a sample run).
| Field | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
documentNumber | string | |
title | string | |
documentType | string | |
agencies | array | |
publicationDate | string | |
effectiveDate | string | |
commentsCloseDate | string | |
daysToCommentDeadline | integer | |
daysToEffective | integer | |
abstract | string | |
cfrReferences | array | |
significant | boolean | |
pageCount | integer | |
htmlUrl | string | |
pdfUrl | string | |
docketIds | array | |
impactScore | integer | |
scrapedAt | string |
Public data only, no login. Fields a source does not publish come back empty rather than guessed. Coverage and freshness follow the underlying public source.
Pay on Apify, no subscription: $0.00093 per document row (pay per event). The live price is on the actor page.
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