CBO Publications

unavailable Legislative · Tier 1 · HTML index · Congressional Budget Office

What this source is

The Congressional Budget Office produces nonpartisan budget and economic analysis for Congress. Its publications index carries cost estimates for pending legislation, baseline and outlook reports, and analytic studies, typically several items per week.

Identity and registry record

Registry id
cbo-publications
Agency / parent organization
Congressional Budget Office
Branch
legislative
Type
HTML index
Status
unavailable
Tier
1
URL (home)
https://www.cbo.gov/publications (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2026-07-26
Registry notes
Probed 2026-07-26: HTTP 403 to honestly-identified automated client (WAF). Recorded, not evaded. Research 2026-07-28: two partial rung-1 alternatives — (1) CBO's official GitHub org US-CBO publishes 15 budget/economic datasets as versioned CSVs with a DCAT catalog.json (github.com/US-CBO/cbo-data), which is data, not the publication stream; (2) CBO cost estimates for bills surface in api.congress.gov bill data (cboCostEstimates container: title/URL/date per estimate). Whether those two channels cover enough of CBO's output is a pending project decision; the newsroom itself stays unavailable.

How we ingest it

Channel
HTML index
Method
HTML index diff via AgencyClient (pending viability check)
Request budget
the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)
Politeness
robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded
Capture and hash
captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only.

All time

No requests to www.cbo.gov are recorded in the request log.

Last 30 days, day by day

No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.