GPO Bulk Data — BILLSTATUS
planned Legislative · Tier 1 · bulk data · Government Publishing Office
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What this source is
GPO's bulk-data service publishes per-bill status XML — actions, committee referrals and activities, cosponsors, amendment actions, veto records — refreshed every 4 hours for the current Congress. Richer and timelier bill-action data than the BILLS text printings.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
govinfo-billstatus- Agency / parent organization
- Government Publishing Office
- Branch
- legislative
- Type
- bulk data
- Status
- planned
- Tier
- 1
- URL (feed)
- https://www.govinfo.gov/rss/billstatus-batch.xml (opens in a new tab)
- URL (home)
- https://github.com/usgpo/bill-status (opens in a new tab)
- URL (index)
- https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2026-07-28
- Registry notes
- User guide read on the official usgpo GitHub 2026-07-28: current-Congress job every 4 hours, prior Congresses daily. Same GPO infrastructure our govinfo client already trusts. Negative finding recorded: bulkdata carries NO CHRG or CRPT — committee hearings/reports remain govinfo API collections.
How we ingest it
- Channel
- bulk data
- Method
- Would watch the batch-completion RSS and sitemap index, then fetch changed status XML from the bulkdata directory (append /xml for machine-readable listings).
- 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.govinfo.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.