Regulatory & compliance

Federal Register

Returns Federal Register documents — the daily-published collection of US executive branch regulatory + administrative actions. Use this for: regulatory tracking (what's the SEC / EPA / FDA proposing this week?), executive order monitoring, public-comment-period tracking, lobbying tie-in (cross-reference with get_lobbying_filings for 'who's pushing which rul.

EndpointGET /v1/federal-register-documents

SourceFederal Register

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What it returns

One record per result. Fields (from a live response):

Identity — title
Dates — scraped_at, publication_date
Provenance — document_number, pdf_url, html_url, public_inspection_pdf_url, document_type
Details — excerpts, abstract, agency_slugs, agency_names

Filters

document_number	GPO-assigned document number (e.g., '2026-09385'). Direct doc lookup, fastest.
title	Case-insensitive substring against the document title.
document_type	Exact filter to one document type. 'Proposed Rule' is the high-value one for compliance forward-look.
agency_slug	Agency slug for exact filter (e.g., 'securities-and-exchange-commission', 'environmental-protection-agency').
agency_name	Case-insensitive substring against full agency names. Use when you don't know the slug.
text	Substring against title + abstract + excerpts combined. Use for topic searches ('climate', 'ai', 'cryptocurrency').
since	publication_date lower bound (YYYY-MM-DD inclusive).
until	publication_date upper bound (YYYY-MM-DD inclusive).
sort_order	Default: desc (newest first).
limit	Maximum documents to return. Default 50, max 500.

Example request

curl "https://api.keyvex.com/v1/federal-register-documents?limit=1" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"

Response

{
  "results": [
    {
      "document_number": "2026-12647",
      "excerpts": "In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations), this notice announces the National Institute of Food and Agriculture's (NIFA) intention to extend and revise a previously approved...",
      "pdf_url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-06-23/pdf/2026-12647.pdf",
      "abstract": "In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations), this notice announces the National Institute of Food and Agriculture's (NIFA) intention to extend and revise a previously approved information collection, entitled Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Funding Agreement Certifications.",
      "title": "Notice of Intent To Extend and Revise a Previously Approved Information Collection",
      "agency_slugs": [
        "agriculture-department",
        "national-institute-of-food-and-agriculture"
      ],
      "scraped_at": "2026-06-23T10:55:26.961Z",
      "html_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/23/2026-12647/notice-of-intent-to-extend-and-revise-a-previously-approved-information-collection",
      "public_inspection_pdf_url": "https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-12647.pdf?1782132321",
      "publication_date": "2026-06-23",
      "agency_names": [
        "Agriculture Department",
        "National Institute of Food and Agriculture"
      ],
    
      …
    }
  ],
  "count": 1,
  "has_more": true
}

Example questions you can answer

New proposed rules from an agency this week.
Final rules and notices in a date range.

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