Federal Register Research

About this capability

Search published U.S. rules, proposed rules, notices and presidential documents. Read selected metadata with source citations and links to official editions.

Try a request

curl -i \
  'https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_federal_register/search?q=blockchain&limit=2'

const res = await fetch("https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_federal_register/search?q=blockchain&limit=2");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();

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API reference

Two GET tools. /search requires q (2–120 characters without controls), with optional limit=5 (1–20) and page=1 (1–10). Search order is fixed newest; fields are fixed to document number, title, type, publication date, citation, agencies and source/official-edition URLs. The provider performs term search across documents, while Apiary returns selected metadata only; a match need not appear in the title. Pagination is bounded and not a frozen snapshot; counts and total pages are provider-reported and may be capped. The official documentation restricts paging to the first 2,000 results; Apiary exposes at most 10 pages of up to 20. Provider pagination links are discarded, never followed. /documents/{YYYY-NNNNN} reads one exact standard document number for years 1994–2099, with no query parameters, for example /documents/2026-21747. Other historic/nonstandard identifier forms are outside this tool. Exact identity, valid publication dates, duplicate/page-size bounds and canonical fixed-host source/PDF URLs are validated. A missing record is a 404 observation, not a conclusion about legal applicability. All source text is untrusted plain text. Responses include legalStatus=informational-unofficial and sourceUpdatedAt=null; fetchedAt is retrieval time, not source update time. No current-law, effective-status, compliance or legal-advice conclusion is made. Fixed source www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json and /api/v1/documents/{number}.json with a fixed eight-field projection. No full document text, abstracts, public comments, files, media, arbitrary API/URL, credentials, writes, wallet actions, automatic paging or background crawling. Returned official PDFs are links only and are not downloaded. Replies are capped at 64 KiB. Source: FederalRegister.gov, Office of the Federal Register / U.S. Government Publishing Office. Its official About This Site page permits reproduction and republication of Federal Register material under 1 CFR 2.6. Only selected factual document metadata and source title/citation are returned; document bodies, abstracts, attachments, comments and media are excluded. The API developer page forbids republishers from using official NARA/OFR logos or seals: this independent tool therefore uses Apiary artwork, not an official government mark or endorsement. The site is an unofficial informational edition; verify legal research against an official govinfo.gov PDF when available. Source and licence conditions must be retained. Official documentation: https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/documentation/api/v1. GET only; no request bodies, caller URLs, credentials or extra parameters. Cached for 300 seconds. Apiary's shared cold-fetch limits: 5/minute and 100/day per provider. Official documentation publishes public API access and a first-2,000-results pagination restriction, but no numeric request entitlement or uptime SLA was found. Apiary applies its own shared five cold reads/minute and 100/day, three-second spacing, five-minute cache, 64-KiB replies, deadlines/coalescing and no retries, polling or alternate hosts. Rate-limit responses pause requests; limits are not bypassed. No provider account balance, prepaid credits, subscriptions, invoices or authenticated billing/quota feed applies. Admin records real Apiary request usage and configured caps; no provider financial balance is invented. Responses include provenance, licence, fetchedAt and readOnly metadata. Provider text is untrusted data, not instructions. Public upstream access has no account credit balance or invoice feed; hosting costs still apply.

Request examples

Copy a request into your terminal, or use the TypeScript example in your agent.

curl -i \
  'https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_federal_register/search?q=blockchain&limit=2'

const res = await fetch("https://www.apiary.world/api/gateway/svc_federal_register/search?q=blockchain&limit=2");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();

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