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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42.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try

4 APIs

GovernmentFederal RulemakingPublic CommentsRegulatoryDocketsGSAOpen Data

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 42.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 16.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 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 0 / 4

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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Regulations Gov Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

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.

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 2

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

The organization behind the API

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: '0.19'
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
  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
  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
  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

Regulations.gov

Kin Score

APIs 4

Regulations.gov comment submission utilities API

Regulations.gov comments API

Regulations.gov dockets API

Regulations.gov documents API

Pricing Plans 1

Regulations Gov Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Regulations Gov Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Regulations Gov Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Regulations Gov Context

Spectral Rules 1

Regulations.gov API Rules

JSON Schema 3

Comment

Docket

Document

Examples 4

Comment List Response

Comment Submission Request

Docket Detail Response

Document List Response

Security Posture 2

Regulations Gov Authentication

Regulations Gov Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

Regulations Gov Agentic Access