Commerce Press Releases
unavailable Executive · Tier 1 · HTML index · Department of Commerce
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What this source is
The Department of Commerce promotes trade and economic growth and houses the federal statistical and standards agencies. Its press-release index carries departmental announcements, including trade-enforcement actions and program launches, typically a few items per week.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
commerce-newsroom- Agency / parent organization
- Department of Commerce
- Branch
- executive
- Type
- HTML index
- Status
- unavailable
- Tier
- 1
- URL (home)
- https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2026-07-26
- Registry notes
- Probed 2026-07-26: HTTP 403 to honestly-identified automated client (WAF) on the web index. Research 2026-07-28: Commerce publishes a content API at api.commerce.gov/api with a /news endpoint, documented at commerce.gov/data-and-reports/developer-resources/commercegov-api and in the official CommerceGov GitHub repo — a rung-1 door around the WAF. Staleness risk: repo changelog last touched Oct 2019. Re-probe the API with our api.data.gov key; status returns to unavailable if the API is dead. Email sibling registered 2026-07-29: commercial-service-email (partial: trade promotion only, not the press office) (GUIDE §3 email class; the web status here is unchanged). Probed 2026-07-31: https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases answered 403 to our honestly-identified client. Recorded as a refusal.
How we ingest it
- Channel
- HTML index
- Method
- Would query the Commerce.gov content API /news endpoint (api.data.gov key family) for new items.
- 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.commerce.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.