State Press Releases

planned Executive · Tier 1 · HTML index · Department of State

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What this source is

The Department of State conducts U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy. Its press-release index carries departmental press statements, media notes, and the Secretary's remarks and travel announcements, typically several items per business day.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

state-newsroom

Agency / parent organization

Department of State

Branch

executive

Type

HTML index

Status

planned

Tier

1

URL (home)

https://www.state.gov/press-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. Research 2026-07-28: State documents feeds at state.gov/rss-feeds; an indexed live feed exists at state.gov/rss-feed/department-press-briefings/feed/ (implying .../press-releases/feed/). Site soft-blocks some non-browser clients but served our identified client HTTP 200 in July — re-probe the /rss-feed/<category>/feed/ URLs. Email sibling registered 2026-07-29: state-week-email (partial: weekly newsletter, not the press-statement stream) (GUIDE §3 email class; the web status here is unchanged). 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. Against the 2026-07-31 capture (644 KB) it finds no article links at all, let alone dated ones: the listing is assembled client-side. This is a script-rendered listing; opening it needs evidence of a dated channel, not a cadence decision.

How we ingest it

Channel

HTML index

Method

Would parse the press-release 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

Last 30 days, day by day

No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.