Government and public sector
Federal Register documents
Rules, proposed rules and notices from US federal agencies, published continuously as RSS.
The Federal Register is the daily journal of the US government, and its API offers the same data as JSON or RSS. The RSS form is what most monitoring pipelines consume, because it is the one with a stable notion of "since I last looked".
It is a realistic example of a high-volume feed: the item count moves every working day.
- Publisher
- US Office of the Federal Register
- Host
www.federalregister.gov- Format
- RSS 2.0
- Root when listed
- rss (2026-08-18)
- Size when listed
- 200.1 KB
What the last check saw
Fetched and parsed, 200.1 KB.Checked 2026-08-18 16:03 UTC
Structure
- Root element
rss- Detected as
- rss
- Nodes
- 1,517
- Namespaces
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
/rss×1/rss/channel×1/rss/channel/title×1/rss/channel/link×1/rss/channel/pubDate×1/rss/channel/description×1/rss/channel/item×200/rss/channel/item/title×200/rss/channel/item/link×200/rss/channel/item/description×200/rss/channel/item/pubDate×200/rss/channel/item/guid×200
Recent checks
- ok2026-08-18 16:03 UTC
- ok2026-08-18 16:01 UTC
Where it reaches
- FormatsRSS 2.0The format, and the required channel elements.
- NamespacesDublin Core (elements 1.1)The metadata vocabulary feeds like this one lean on.
Also in this category
- New UK legislation feedEvery piece of UK legislation as it is published, as an Atom feed — with the legislation itself available as XML behind each entry.
- Most-viewed billsWhat people are actually reading on congress.gov this week, as a small, well-behaved RSS feed.
- European Commission press releasesPress releases, statements and speeches from the Commission, with a language parameter that changes the whole feed.
- data.gov sitemapThe sitemap for the US open data catalogue — a plain urlset rather than an index, which is unusual at this scale.
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