Executive Orders API: New executive orders, proclamations and presidential memoranda — Federal Register
New executive orders, proclamations and presidential memoranda from the Federal Register, newest first, optionally filtered by search term — normalized documents with agencies, topics and links. One call, no EO-section parsing.
Free — no key, no signup, rate-limited to 60 calls per minute per client.
How do you call it?
GET /v1/regs/eo — product id
reg_executive_orders. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with
product_id=reg_executive_orders.
curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/regs/eo?doc_type=executive_order"Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/regs/eo?doc_type=executive_order · JSON sample: /v1/samples/reg_executive_orders
What does the answer look like?
A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/reg_executive_orders.
as_of | 2026-09-02T14:00:00Z |
|---|---|
total_matching | 12 |
count | 1 |
refresh_after | 2026-09-18T00:00:00.000Z |
documents
| document_number | title | type | action | agencies | publication_date | effective_on | comments_close_on | significant | abstract | docket_ids | regulation_id_numbers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11111 | Executive Order 14999 of August 26, 2026: Strengthening Supply Chains | Presidential Document | — | Executive Office of the President | 2026-08-28 | — | — | — | — | (empty) | (empty) |
The same sample as raw JSON
{
"as_of": "2026-09-02T14:00:00Z",
"total_matching": 12,
"count": 1,
"documents": [
{
"document_number": "2026-11111",
"title": "Executive Order 14999 of August 26, 2026: Strengthening Supply Chains",
"type": "Presidential Document",
"action": null,
"agencies": [
"Executive Office of the President"
],
"publication_date": "2026-08-28",
"effective_on": null,
"comments_close_on": null,
"significant": null,
"abstract": null,
"docket_ids": [],
"regulation_id_numbers": [],
"cfr_references": [],
"topics": [],
"url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-11111",
"flags": [],
"days_to_comment_close": null,
"days_to_effective": null
}
],
"refresh_after": "2026-09-18T00:00:00.000Z"
}How fresh is it, and where does the data come from?
The fastest source behind this answer can change daily, so every response carries a refresh_after timestamp — right now it would be 2026-09-18T00:00:00.000Z. Schedule the next call on that value rather than on a guess.
- Federal Register (US federal public domain) — upstream:
https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1
Method version 0.1.0 ·
serving cache 1 day ·
every response carries a result_id you can resolve at
/v1/provenance.
When should you use it?
You track presidential documents — EOs, proclamations, memoranda.
What you skip building
- presidential document type codes
- federalregister.gov integration
When should you not use it?
Agency rulemaking — use the agency feed or search.
Where else can you find this?
- Catalog entry (JSON, free)
- OpenAPI schema — input and output types, prices, the 402 flow
- llms.txt — every product in one plain-text document