> This is the Markdown form of https://fapd.info/sources/state-travel-advisories.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: state-travel-advisories)` in https://github.com/davidkarnowski/free-agentic-publication-digester. # State Travel Advisories active · ingestion health: quiet · Executive · Tier 2 · RSS feed · Department of State Official site: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html · All sources: [sources.md](../sources.md) ## 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 | Field | Value | |---|---| | 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 | | URL (home) | https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html | | 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 | Term | Description | |---|---| | 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 **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 2026-10-06T02:39:39Z (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: 4 request(s) (4 answered, 0 returned no content) · no items ingested ### Last 14 days | Measure | Value | |---|---| | Items ingested | none in the last 14 days — none recorded in the lookback period | | Our requests to travel.state.gov | 4 request(s) · 4 answered · 0 declined (4xx) · 0 server declined (5xx) · 0 no response — 0.0% returned no content | last answered request 2026-10-06T02:04:21.953+00:00 UTC. No item recorded from this source in the last 180 days. ### All time - **Our requests to travel.state.gov, all time (since 2026-10-05):** 4 request(s) · 4 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 travel.state.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 | 0 | 4 | 348 |