Federal Register Scraper

Extract proposed rules, final rules, presidential documents, and agency notices from the Federal Register. Built on spider-browser .

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target
federalregister.gov: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

federal-register-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/search?conditions%5Btype%5D%5B%5D=RULE");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const docs = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".document-wrapper").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector("h5 a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const agency = el.querySelector(".metadata .agency")?.textContent?.trim();
    const date = el.querySelector(".metadata .date")?.textContent?.trim();
    const type = el.querySelector(".metadata .type")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) docs.push({ title, agency, date, type });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: docs.length, docs: docs.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

One endpoint for federalregister.gov.

Structured JSON from federalregister.gov with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/federalregister.gov/

Document titleAgencyTypePublished dateCitationAbstract

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cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/federalregister.gov/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/federalregister.gov/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/federalregister.gov/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Document titleAgencyTypePublished dateCitationAbstractDocket numberComment deadline

Data

Public records

Extract filings, regulations, and public data from federalregister.gov.

Parsing

Document extraction

Clean extraction of legal documents, PDFs, and structured public records.

Scale

Bulk processing

Process thousands of filings and regulatory documents concurrently.

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Start

Start scraping federalregister.gov.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.

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