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Federal Register

Every US federal rule, notice, and proclamation as JSON

🏛 GovernmentUNMONITOREDchecked 12 min ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✓

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.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
▶ Run liveDocs ↗
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Uptime history
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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())
Endpoints · 3On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
First rollup pending — GET /documents.json?per_page=1 has been probed
GET/documents.json?per_page=1PROBED

Every US federal rule, notice, and proclamation as JSON

GET/documents.json?limit=5

Documents Json — documented GET route.

GET/documents.json?page=1

Documents 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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).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 unmonitored. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.