CBP Media Releases

planned Executive · Tier 2 · HTML index · Department of Homeland Security

What this source is

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, within DHS, controls the borders and ports of entry. Its national media-release index carries announcements on border enforcement, trade actions, and travel operations, typically several items per week; field offices publish additional local releases.

Identity and registry record

Registry id
cbp-newsroom
Agency / parent organization
Department of Homeland Security
Branch
executive
Type
HTML index
Status
planned
Tier
2
URL (home)
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/media-releases (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2026-07-26
Registry notes
Probed 2026-07-26: index reachable (HTTP 200), no RSS/Atom feed found or autodiscovered — HTML index diffing required. Probed 2026-07-31 (from the operator machine, outside the server's daily budget): reachable, HTTP 200, robots allows, but no machine-readable feed is advertised — ingestion waits on an html-index adapter, not on the publisher. Phase 5, 2026-07-31: the html-index adapter now exists and was run against this source's captured index bytes. The page states one <time datetime> value, 2020-09-30T12:00:00+01:00, repeated on every entry — a template default, not a publication date. The lookback window is what kept those 11 entries out; do not activate this source until CBP publishes a real per-entry date. Activation awaits the operator's polling-cadence decision (the agency class holds 500 requests a day).

How we ingest it

Channel
HTML index
Method
HTML index diff via AgencyClient (pending content evaluation)
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 planned.

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 planned. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only.

All time

No requests to www.cbp.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.