Regulations.gov

Regulations.gov is the US federal government's central portal for public participation in the rulemaking process, operated by the General Services Administration. Its REST API enables programmatic access to regulatory dockets, proposed rules, final rules, supporting documents, and public comments submitted to federal agencies. Developers can search and filter content across all federal agencies, retrieve full document and comment details with attachments, and submit public comments programmatically. The API is managed through api.data.gov and uses API key authentication.

Regulations.gov publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including comment submission utilities API, comments API, dockets API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Government, Federal Rulemaking, Public Comments, Regulatory, and Dockets.

The Regulations.gov catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Regulations.gov’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, support, and 7 more developer resources.

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39.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 46/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

4 APIs

GovernmentFederal RulemakingPublic CommentsRegulatory Dockets GSA Open Data

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 39.4/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.7 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.9 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 46/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Government & Public Sector regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 4

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Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Regulations Gov Rate Limits

0 limits

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FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Resources

Documentation 1

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Documentation

Documentation

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AgenticAccess

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GitHubOrg

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Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

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Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: regulations-gov
name: Regulations.gov
description: Regulations.gov is the US federal government's central portal for public participation in the rulemaking process,
  operated by the General Services Administration. Its REST API enables programmatic access to regulatory dockets, proposed
  rules, final rules, supporting documents, and public comments submitted to federal agencies. Developers can search and filter
  content across all federal agencies, retrieve full document and comment details with attachments, and submit public comments
  programmatically. The API is managed through api.data.gov and uses API key authentication.
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/regulations-gov.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/regulations-gov/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
tags:
- Government
- Federal Rulemaking
- Public Comments
- Regulatory
- Dockets
- GSA
- Open Data
apis:
- aid: regulations-gov:regulations-gov-comment-submission-utilities-api
  name: Regulations.gov comment submission utilities API
  description: Utilities to support submitting public comments
  humanURL: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
  baseURL: https://api.regulations.gov
  tags:
  - comment submission utilities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/regulations-gov-comment-submission-utilities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
- aid: regulations-gov:regulations-gov-comments-api
  name: Regulations.gov comments API
  description: Public comments submitted on regulatory documents
  humanURL: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
  baseURL: https://api.regulations.gov
  tags:
  - Comments
  tags_raw:
  - comments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/regulations-gov-comments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
- aid: regulations-gov:regulations-gov-dockets-api
  name: Regulations.gov dockets API
  description: Regulatory dockets grouping related documents
  humanURL: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
  baseURL: https://api.regulations.gov
  tags:
  - Dockets
  tags_raw:
  - dockets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/regulations-gov-dockets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
- aid: regulations-gov:regulations-gov-documents-api
  name: Regulations.gov documents API
  description: Federal regulatory documents including notices, rules, and proposed rules
  humanURL: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
  baseURL: https://api.regulations.gov
  tags:
  - Documents
  tags_raw:
  - documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/regulations-gov-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/regulations-gov-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/regulations-gov-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/regulations-gov-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.regulations.gov/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://open.gsa.gov/api/regulationsgov/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/GSA
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.gsa.gov/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://api.data.gov/docs/rate-limits/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/regulations-gov-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/regulations-gov-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/regulations-gov-finops.yml
- type: Support
  url: https://www.regulations.gov/support
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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