Regulations.gov Documents Scraper

Search public Regulations.gov rulemaking documents for regulatory monitoring, policy intelligence, compliance alerts, and docket document exports. Results retain official document IDs and links for verification.

Why this actor

Regulations.gov documents are high-value for legal teams, public-affairs groups, regulated industries, consultants, compliance teams, and policy analysts because early rulemaking signals can affect product roadmaps, market access, reporting obligations, and lobbying priorities. This actor turns public rulemaking search results into structured rows that can be scheduled, filtered, and routed to review workflows.

Before you start

The official API requires an api.data.gov key for regular use. Enter your own key in the secret apiKey input. The shared DEMO_KEY is available only for a single exploratory search and can be rate-limited independently of this Actor. It is not a production data entitlement. Obtain your key through the official API documentation; no commenting registration is needed for document searches. The Actor sends the key in the documented X-Api-Key header, not the source URL.

Output

Each paid row requires a document ID and title and includes its Regulations.gov URL and original public response. Agency, docket ID, type, dates, withdrawn status and object ID are included when the search API supplies them; missing fields stay null. This searches document metadata, not full attachments or comment bodies. Free RUN_SUMMARY diagnostics record completeness, request counts and duplicate counts.

Use cases

• Monitor rulemaking documents by keyword, agency, docket, or document type.
• Track public comment deadlines for legal, compliance, and public-affairs workflows.
• Build regulatory-intelligence dashboards and market-risk alerts.
• Route relevant documents to Slack, Airtable, Make, n8n, a warehouse, or a review queue.
• Feed AI agents with official source URLs for summaries, issue spotting, and briefing notes.

Example input

{
  "searchTerms": ["water"],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 25
}

For a recurring workflow, add your own key using the secret input. Multiple search terms and filter values form separate combinations, with at most 20 combinations per run. All supplied values are honored; the first value is not silently selected. Each combination returns its first page of 5-250 documents, sorted newest first, without deep pagination. Overlapping documents are deduplicated within the run. Maximum source time is 240 seconds with at most 60 HTTP attempts. Authentication failures and rate limits stop without automatic retries; use your own valid key or wait for the source quota to reset.

Malformed input, incomplete documents, an invalid response shape or a failed required search stops the run before paid rows are written. A valid empty search succeeds with zero rows. These checks do not guarantee future source availability.

Responsible use

This actor extracts public Regulations.gov data. Use it for research, monitoring, compliance support, and policy intelligence. Verify legal or regulatory decisions against official source documents and qualified advice.

Pricing

$3 per 1,000 complete unique document rows ($0.003 each). The 25-row example costs at most $0.075 in Actor result charges. Diagnostics, duplicate rows and failed source work are not billed. A later successful snapshot can return and bill the same document again; this is not an unchanged-document monitor. Review the live Pricing tab and set a run charge limit before starting.