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FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot

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FN Bot makes targeted rate-limited requests to a variety of publically available legislative and regulatory sources. Operated by FiscalNote.

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Assessment

Aggregator

What is FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot?

The FiscalNote bot is an automated crawler operated by FiscalNote, a global provider of policy and market intelligence. It systematically monitors and collects legislative and regulatory documents from government websites, municipal portals, and public policy databases. This data is ingested into the PolicyNote platform, where it is processed to provide users with real-time tracking, analysis, and alerts regarding government actions from the local to the international level.

Helpful — This bot performs legitimate data collection for professional policy intelligence and government transparency services.

Identification

Bot name

FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot

Operator

FiscalNote

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls to ensure that FiscalNote's proprietary databases remain current with the latest bills, amendments, and regulatory filings. By automating the retrieval of these documents, the bot enables the company to offer high-fidelity policy intelligence to government affairs professionals, lobbyists, and legal teams. The operator can be verified by the 'FiscalNote/1.0' user-agent string, which aligns with the company's public documentation regarding their data collection infrastructure.

Block or allow FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for FiscalNote in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: FiscalNote
Disallow: /

# Allow FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot full access
User-agent: FiscalNote
Allow: /