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Search the US Federal Register, the government’s daily journal of rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents, for documents that match search words, newest first. Each document gives its document number, title, type, abstract, the date it was published, the agencies that issued it, and links to the document and its PDF. Optionally narrow by type (rule, proposed_rule, notice or presidential), by agency (the agency’s Federal Register slug, for example federal-aviation-administration), and by publication date with published_after and published_before (YYYY-MM-DD). Use it to find what the government has said or proposed about a subject, a regulation or a company. It covers documents published since 1994 and returns the abstract, not the full text: open the link for that. total is how many documents matched, including any beyond limit, and is 0 when none did.

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Request Body

string
required
Search words, for example drone registration. 2 to 200 characters.
string
Only this kind of document: rule, proposed_rule, notice or presidential. One of rule, proposed_rule, notice, presidential.
string
Only documents from this agency, as its Federal Register slug, for example federal-aviation-administration. 2 to 80 characters.
string
Only documents published on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD. Use YYYY-MM-DD.
string
Only documents published on or before this date, YYYY-MM-DD. Use YYYY-MM-DD.
integer
The most documents to return. Default 10. From 1 to 20. Defaults to 10.

Response (200 OK)

Top-level envelope: success (boolean) and data (object). All fields below are nested under data.
string
Durable job ID for audit and lookup
string
Job status: completed
string
Always record_federal_register_find
object
The answer, described under Result below
object
Where the answer came from and when
string
The public body the data comes from. Always US Office of the Federal Register.
string
public when the data comes from a public body, commercial otherwise
string
When the lookup was made, as an ISO 8601 UTC time
string
When the source says the fact was last updated, or null when the source gives no date

Result

Nested under data.result.
number
How many documents matched, including any beyond limit.
object[]
The matching documents, newest first.
string
The Federal Register document number. null when the source gives no value.
string
The document title. null when the source gives no value.
string
Rule, Proposed Rule, Notice or Presidential Document. null when the source gives no value.
string
The abstract the agency gave the document. null when the source gives no value.
string
The date it was published, YYYY-MM-DD. null when the source gives no value.
string[]
The agencies that issued it.
string
The document on federalregister.gov. null when the source gives no value.
string
The official PDF. null when the source gives no value.
Price: $0.005 per lookup. See Pricing for every tool.

Notes

  • Results return inline. The finished job stays available at /v1/requests/{request_id}