[temphn]

The project is awesome and kudos for that.

It's a little scary, though, that we need an API to list all the federal agencies and rules. Take a look at this:

http://api.federalregister.gov/v1/agencies.json

Grep gives a count of 551 federal agencies. Wow. Each one with millions to billions in annual budget. It'd be interesting to start cross referencing this versus budget and media coverage. You could identify things like "the most well-funded agency you've never heard of".

http://api.federalregister.gov/v1/articles.json

And that list seems to give every new federal rule published in the last day. At 9am Eastern, looks like we already have 20 new federal rules, applicable to every man, woman, and child in the US. Surely some people are now violating laws that just entered effect today. And the amazing thing is that a rule is actually a pretty high bar to clear, much harder to get than a simple guidance document.

[adestefan]

The second link is not all rules, it also includes notices. There are certain actions that require a notice be issued to the Federal Register when taken by a government entity. There are probably more notices than rules for a given day.