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FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot

FN Bot makes targeted rate-limited requests to a variety of publically available legislative and regulatory sources.
FiscalNote Holdings, Inc.FiscalNote
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What is FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot?

Government bill and rule pages are the intended scope of FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot. FiscalNote uses it to retrieve information from publicly available legislative and regulatory sources. The directory describes the requests as targeted and rate limited rather than a broad crawl of unrelated websites.

The public bot record does not name the individual source sites, fields collected, or FiscalNote product that receives each record. It also gives no numeric rate limit. A visit can be understood as policy-data collection, but the user agent alone cannot explain the exact record or customer workflow behind it.

Requests use FiscalNote/1.0. No official crawler IP range or signature directory is included in the available material. The directory marks robots.txt compliance as false, which means a rule for this token should not be treated as an enforceable block.

Allowing the crawler can help FiscalNote receive updates from a public legislative or regulatory source. There is no documented use for general AI search or language-model training. Its appearance on a site says nothing by itself about that site's visibility in generative answers.

Indirectly relevant

Is FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot relevant for AI search?

Indirectly. FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot has no AI product of its own, but its output can end up in the systems that AI answers draw on.

FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot collects content from many sites and redistributes it through its own product. Aggregated copies can end up in datasets that AI systems later learn from, and some aggregators are themselves sources that AI answer engines draw on.

How to handle FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot

A public body that expects FiscalNote to collect its records can keep final bill or rule pages available while protecting costly search endpoints separately. Before blocking, check whether policy teams rely on FiscalNote to receive updates from the site.

The stable token can express a robots preference:

User-agent: FiscalNote
Disallow: /

Cloudflare's bot directory says FN Bot does not follow robots.txt. Enforce a required restriction in the application or at the edge, matching FiscalNote/1.0 rather than a broad bot category. Requests to a site with no legislative or regulatory material fall outside the published purpose and should not be allowlisted without verification.

Examples

  • A state agency leaves final regulation pages open to `FiscalNote/1.0` while rate-limiting a resource-heavy search form separately.
  • An online retailer sees the token on product URLs, finds no legislative material on the site, and blocks the specific pattern because it does not fit the stated collection scope.

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Its stated targets are publicly available legislative and regulatory sources. Visits to unrelated commercial content do not match that description.

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