Federal Register
Every US federal rule, notice, and proclamation as JSON
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The US government's official daily journal, exposed as a clean REST API. Query proposed rules, final rules, notices, and presidential documents by date, agency, or keyword with no key. Responses are paginated JSON served straight from FederalRegister.gov.
Uptime history
98.0%90 days
98.3%30 days
478P50 · ms
3165P95 · ms
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 80 ms, slowest 1714 ms, most recent 241 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?per_page=1
{
"description": "All Documents",
"count": 10000,
"total_pages": 50,
"results": [
{
"title": "Improvements to Rules on Recoupment of Benefit Overpayments",
"type": "Proposed Rule",
"document_number": "2026-13639"
}
]
}Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?per_page=1"const res = await fetch("https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?per_page=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);import requests
res = requests.get("https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?per_page=1")
print(res.json())Monitored path responding — GET /documents.json?per_page=1478 mschecked 12h ago
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/documents.json?per_page=1PROBEDEvery US federal rule, notice, and proclamation as JSON
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/documents.json?limit=5Documents Json — documented GET route.
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/documents.json?page=1Documents Json — documented GET route.
Machine-readable spec
We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.
Response-shape history
Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.
Federal Register: common questions
Is Federal Register free to use?
Yes — Federal Register is a free government API. Free tier: Free — no key or signup required. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.
Does Federal Register need an API key?
No — Federal Register needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).
Can I call Federal Register from the browser?
Yes — Federal Register returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.
Is Federal Register up right now?
As of our last scheduled check, Federal Register is healthy with 98.0% uptime over 90 days and a 478 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.