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Every rule, proposed rule and notice published by US federal agencies, searchable by agency, type and date.

Capabilities (13)

GET /v1/data/federalregister/agencies1 credit

Returns every federal agency the Federal Register indexes, with id, name, short name, slug, description, parent and child agency ids, official website and the API URL for its documents.

No parameters
GET /v1/data/federalregister/agency1 credit

Returns one agency record: id, name, short name, slug, description, parent and child agency ids, official website and a link to its recent documents.

slug
GET /v1/data/federalregister/document1 credit

Returns one Federal Register document in full: title, abstract, type, action, effective and comment dates, publishing agencies, docket and regulation id numbers, CFR citations, page range, regulations.gov comment URL and links to the HTML, PDF, plain-text and XML bodies.

number
GET /v1/data/federalregister/document-facets1 credit

Returns counts of matching documents grouped by one dimension — agency, document type, subtype, topic, section, or by day, week, month, quarter or year — as a compact object of counts rather than the documents themselves.

facetterm
GET /v1/data/federalregister/documents1 credit

Full-text searches every document published in the Federal Register since 1994 and returns 20 per page with document number, title, type, abstract, publishing agencies, publication date, HTML and PDF URLs and matched excerpts.

termpage?order?
GET /v1/data/federalregister/documents-by-agency1 credit

Returns the 20 most recent Federal Register documents published by one agency, newest first, with title, type, abstract, publication date and document links.

agencypage?order?
GET /v1/data/federalregister/documents-by-type1 credit

Returns the 20 most recent Federal Register documents of a single type — final rule, proposed rule, notice or presidential document — newest first.

typepage?order?
GET /v1/data/federalregister/documents-in-date-range1 credit

Full-text searches the Federal Register restricted to a publication-date window and returns 20 documents per page, newest first.

termstart_dateend_datepage?order?
GET /v1/data/federalregister/executive-orders1 credit

Returns the 20 most recent executive orders, newest first, with title, abstract, signing and publication dates, citation, document number and links to the full text.

page?order?
GET /v1/data/federalregister/issue1 credit

Returns the table of contents for one day’s Federal Register issue, grouped by agency and document type, with each document’s title, subject hierarchy and links.

publication_date
GET /v1/data/federalregister/public-inspection-current1 credit

Returns every document currently on public inspection — filed with the Office of the Federal Register but not yet published — with filing type, filed-at timestamp, scheduled publication date, agencies, title and document links.

No parameters
GET /v1/data/federalregister/public-inspection-document1 credit

Returns one public-inspection document with its filing type, filed-at timestamp, scheduled publication date, agencies, title, docket numbers, page count and PDF link.

number
GET /v1/data/federalregister/suggested-searches1 credit

Returns the Federal Register’s own curated searches grouped by section — business and industry, environment, health, money, science and technology, world — each with a title, description and the search conditions behind it.

No parameters

Licence

A work of the United States Government, not subject to copyright protection in the United States (17 U.S.C. 105). The Office of the Federal Register publishes this API for public reuse.

https://www.federalregister.gov/reader-aids/developer-resources

Attribution

Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.

Source: Federal Register (US Government Publishing Office)

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