State Travel Advisories

active ○Ingestion health: quiet Executive · Tier 2 · RSS feed · Department of State

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What this source is

The State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs keeps a travel advisory for each country, rating it from Level 1 (exercise normal precautions) to Level 4 (do not travel) and giving the reasons. An advisory is re-issued when its level or content changes or after periodic review; across all countries that happens several times a week.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

state-travel-advisories

Agency / parent organization

Department of State

Branch

executive

Type

RSS feed

Status

active

Tier

2

URL (feed)

https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml (opens in a new tab)

URL (home)

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-10-05

Registry notes

Registered 2026-10-05 from the 2026-10-04 source research. Probed 2026-10-04 through FAPD's identified probe client: the feed answered HTTP 200 (956 KB, 216 items); the sample advisory page answered 403, recorded and not retried. 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) for the feed (614 KB, 223 items, 223/223 dated, date-only RFC 822 'Tue, 15 Sep 2026'); its robots.txt answered 403, which the client reads as allow (RFC 9309), and no advisory page was requested. Three findings shaped a dedicated adapter (operator-approved 2026-10-05): the feed is a snapshot of every advisory in force (back to 2023-06), not a list of recent posts, so it is bounded to the lookback window; every item's GUID is the country's permanent page, which a re-issue keeps, so identity is the GUID plus the advisory's date, or each re-issue would be deduped away (disclosed limit: an edit made without a new date is not seen); and the advisory pages refuse FAPD, so it is feed-only, with the advisory text taken from the item description (~2,000 characters on average). Gate 2 through the adapter, 2026-10-05: 223 items read, 0 inside the 7-day window (the newest advisory was dated 2026-09-15), none undated; the channel's own pubDate is the moment of the request, so the feed is generated live, not a stale file. The feed sends no ETag or Last-Modified, so every hourly poll is a full fetch (about 614 KB, compressed in transit); the home URL is the one the feed's channel names. Coverage (gate 3): every re-issue dated inside the window. Of the advisories in force on 2026-10-05, 48 carried an August 2026 date and 17 a September date; a country re-issued twice shows only its latest, so these count countries, not re-issues. To measure after activation: whether an advisory is posted on the date it carries (one posted a day late is counted as backfill, not listed). ACTIVATED 2026-10-05 (operator).

How we ingest it

Channel

RSS feed

Method

Polls the travel-advisory RSS feed via AgencyClient, feed metadata only (travel-advisories adapter), keeping advisories dated within the lookback window; each item's description carries the advisory text.

Adapter

travel-advisories

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

○Ingestion health: quiet No item recorded from this source in the last 180 days.

This label has held since 2026-10-05T23:57:58Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-10-06T01:52:08Z (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 14 days

All time

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.