> This is the Markdown form of https://fapd.info/sources/fmc-press.html. Content is licensed CC BY 4.0 > (credit "FAPD — Free Agentic Publication Digester"); quoted official government > text is public domain. For factual claims, cite the official source each item > links to. Canonical source: `sources/registry.yaml (id: fmc-press)` in https://github.com/davidkarnowski/free-agentic-publication-digester. # FMC Press Releases active · ingestion health: delivering · Executive · Tier 3 · RSS feed · Independent agency Official site: https://www.fmc.gov/category/news-articles/press-releases/ · All sources: [sources.md](../sources.md) ## What this source is The Federal Maritime Commission regulates ocean shipping in U.S. foreign trade: carriers, marine terminals, and ocean transportation intermediaries. Its press releases announce enforcement actions, rulemakings, and commission decisions; volume is low, ten releases from January to July 2026. ## Identity and registry record | Field | Value | |---|---| | Registry id | `fmc-press` | | Agency / parent organization | Independent agency | | Branch | executive | | Type | RSS feed | | Status | active | | Tier | 3 | | URL (feed) | https://www.fmc.gov/category/news-articles/press-releases/feed/ | | URL (home) | https://www.fmc.gov/category/news-articles/press-releases/ | | Registered | 2026-10-05 | | Registry notes | Registered and ACTIVATED 2026-10-05 (operator), from the 2026-10-04 source research. Probed 2026-10-04 through FAPD's identified probe client. Re-verified 2026-10-05 from the operator machine as a brief test, outside the server's budget, through FAPD's identified probe client (robots allows, no crawl-delay, no Retry-After, HTTP 200): 10 items, 10/10 with GUID (the site's post id) and date; newest 2026-07-08, the same newest dates the press-release listing shows, so the feed is current and the Commission is quiet. Sample release extracted at 4,429 characters and its page states the feed's date; descriptions are ~680-character excerpts, so full mode. Coverage (gate 3): 10 items spanned 2026-01-26 to 07-08; expect most weeks to list nothing. The first poll fetches the ten releases once and they sort to backfill. | ## How we ingest it | Term | Description | |---|---| | Channel | RSS feed | | Method | Polls the press-release category RSS feed via AgencyClient, then fetches each new release for full text (mode full). | | Poll cadence | about every 60 minutes while the collector runs | | Request budget | the agency class: at most 3,000 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 **delivering** — 10 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-10-05; 0 of 14 request(s) to www.fmc.gov returned no content. This label has held since 2026-10-05T23:57:58Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-10-06T02:39:39Z (UTC). Counts are of our own requests, retries included. A 4xx or 5xx is the server declining to return content — that may be load, maintenance, on-demand generation, or a limit the publisher sets, and we cannot tell which from outside. Nothing here is a measurement of the publisher. ## 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. ### Last 24 hours Last 24 hours: 14 request(s) (14 answered, 0 returned no content) · 10 item(s) ingested ### Last 14 days | Measure | Value | |---|---| | Items ingested | 10 in 14 days (0.71 per day) · most recent 2026-10-05 | | Content length | 5,472 characters average, 3,729 median (shortest 2,455, longest 22,756) | | Delivery mode | full — full article text, fetched from the item's own page | | Our requests to www.fmc.gov | 14 request(s) · 14 answered · 0 declined (4xx) · 0 server declined (5xx) · 0 no response — 0.0% returned no content | last answered request 2026-10-06T02:13:02.963+00:00 UTC. 10 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-10-05; 0 of 14 request(s) to www.fmc.gov returned no content. ### All time - **Our requests to www.fmc.gov, all time (since 2026-10-05):** 14 request(s) · 14 answered · 0 returned no content Request counts begin 2026-07-30, the day this service went into production; earlier development-machine traffic is excluded. Counts before 2026-08-03 include unmarked source-probe traffic; probes are labeled and excluded thereafter. Robots.txt checks, about one a day per host, are left out of these figures and of every health label: they fetch no publication, so a source's health rests on the requests that fetch its publications. They are still logged and counted against our request budget. ### Last 30 days, day by day Each day runs midnight to midnight on Eastern time (Washington, D.C.), the publication day the digests use; the stored request stamps remain UTC. | Day | Items ingested | Requests to www.fmc.gov | Mean response time (ms) | |---|---|---|---| | 2026-09-06 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-07 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-08 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-09 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-10 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-11 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-12 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-13 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-15 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-16 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-17 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-18 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-19 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-20 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-21 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-22 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-23 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-24 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-25 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-26 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-27 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-28 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-29 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-09-30 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-10-01 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-10-02 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-10-03 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-10-04 | 0 | 0 | — | | 2026-10-05 | 10 | 14 | 116 |