REST API & Interactive Documentation Federal Register data originates with the files used to produce the print and PDF editions. During the publication process these are transformed into bulk XML files made available by the Government Publishing Office (GPO). Additional MODS files that contain metadata about each document are also produced at the same time. Because these files are meant … Continue reading “REST API & Interactive Documentation”

API Clients Ruby API Client The FederalRegister.gov team maintains a Ruby API client that is available as a Ruby gem. This client gem is used to power the web display of FederalRegister.gov. You can find it on GitHub and RubyGems. Other resources To learn more about our API you can read more here and explore the API with … Continue reading “API Clients”

FederalRegister.gov is Open Source Project Source Code FederalRegister.gov is a fully open source project and its source code is available on Github. The FederalRegister.gov source code is available in two repositories. The first, federalregister-api-core, contains the code that powers the import of Federal Register data from various sources and serves our API responses. This repo is undergoing active cleanup … Continue reading “FederalRegister.gov is Open Source”

Bulk Data Bulk data is currently only available in XML format. The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) and the National Archives’ Office of the Federal Register (OFR) partnership is offering bulk data downloads of Federal Register XML files to the general public via Data.gov and FDsys at https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/FR. Information on the legal status, authenticity, and schema of … Continue reading “Bulk Data”