Federal Register Python API Client

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Setup
• Usage
• Support These Projects

Overview

This library is used to grab federal documents from the United States Federal Register. Additionally, it will help simplify the process of building requests for the different fields that can be returned for specific documents.

Setup

Right now, the library is not hosted on PyPi so you will need to do a local install on your system if you plan to use it in other scrips you use.

First, clone this repo to your local system. After you clone the repo, make sure to run the setup.py file, so you can install any dependencies you may need. To run the setup.py file, run the following command in your terminal.

pip install federal-register

This will install all the dependencies listed in the setup.py file. Once done you can use the library wherever you want.

Usage

Here is a simple example of using the federal_register library to grab a document using the document number.

from pprint import pprint
from federal_register.client import FederalRegister

# Initialize the client.
federal_register_client = FederalRegister()

# Grab a specific document.
federal_document = federal_register_client.document_by_id(
    document_id='2020-17469',
    fields='all'
)

# Print it out.
pprint(federal_document)

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