Energy Press Releases
planned Executive · Tier 1 · HTML index · Department of Energy
Official site (opens in a new tab) · All sources
What this source is
The Department of Energy manages energy research, the national laboratories, and the nuclear weapons stockpile. Its newsroom index carries departmental press releases on funding awards, energy programs, and nuclear security, typically several items per week.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
energy-newsroom- Agency / parent organization
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- executive
- Type
- HTML index
- Status
- planned
- Tier
- 1
- URL (home)
- https://www.energy.gov/newsroom (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 listing parses, but energy.gov's mega-menu puts topic, search and event links in the same date-bearing blocks as the releases, and three of them picked up a neighbouring release's date. An index_item_path of '/articles/' cuts it to 7 clean releases; that hint is registered nowhere yet because the source is not being activated. Activation awaits the operator's polling-cadence decision (the agency class holds 500 requests a day).
How we ingest it
- Channel
- HTML index
- Method
- Would parse the newsroom HTML index daily 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 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.energy.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.