White House Briefing Room

planned Executive · Tier 1 · HTML index · Executive Office of the President

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What this source is

The White House briefing room is the Executive Office of the President's direct publication channel. It carries statements, releases, remarks, and presidential actions — executive orders and proclamations as first announced, ahead of their official compilation in DCPD — typically several items per day.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

whitehouse-briefing-room

Agency / parent organization

Executive Office of the President

Branch

executive

Type

HTML index

Status

planned

Tier

1

URL (home)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/ (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-26

Registry notes

Fast channel: the official compilation of the same material arrives later via the planned govinfo DCPD collection. Probed 2026-07-26: index reachable (HTTP 200), no RSS/Atom feed found or autodiscovered — HTML index diffing required. Research 2026-07-28: site confirmed WordPress (~2-3 items/day); the platform's /feed/ convention may be live or disabled (the first Trump-era site disabled WP RSS) — one feed-URL check at probe settles it. For presidential documents specifically, the Federal Register API's public-inspection endpoint (see federal-register-api) is the structured, official near-same-day channel and may obviate scraping this site. 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 it reads listing has 87 article link(s); 10 dated inside the 7-day lookback, 0 dated outside it, 77 skipped for no readable date, and the entries it lists carry the publisher's own dates. Activation awaits the operator's polling-cadence decision (the agency class holds 500 requests a day).

How we ingest it

Channel

HTML index

Method

HTML index diff via AgencyClient (pending content evaluation)

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.