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Regulations.gov Scraper

Extract proposed regulations, public comments, docket summaries, and agency rulemaking from Regulations.gov. Built on spider-browser .

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target
regulations.gov
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
POST /fetch/regulations.gov/
return_format
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/regulations.gov/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
200 OK · cache hit · response shape
{
  "url": "https://regulations.gov/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "document_title": "string",
    "agency": "string",
    "docket_id": "string",
    "document_type": "string",
    "posted_date": "string",
    "comment_count": "string",
    "status": "string",
    "abstract": "string"
  }
}
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

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

regulations-gov-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.regulations.gov/search?documentTypes=Rule&sortBy=postedDate&sortDirection=desc");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.extractFields({
  title: ".document-card .title a",
  agency: ".document-card .agency",
  date: ".document-card .posted-date",
  type: ".document-card .document-type",
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Document titleAgencyDocket IDDocument typePosted dateComment countStatusAbstract
Data

Public records

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

Related

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Start

Start scraping regulations.gov.

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