CFTC Press Releases

active ●Ingestion health: delivering Executive · Tier 2 · HTML index · Independent agency

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What this source is

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulates U.S. derivatives markets. Its press-release index carries enforcement actions, rulemaking announcements, and commissioner statements, typically a few items per week.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

cftc-press

Agency / parent organization

Independent agency

Branch

executive

Type

HTML index

Status

active

Tier

2

URL (home)

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases (opens in a new tab)

URL (index)

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-26

Registry notes

Probed 2026-07-26: index reachable (HTTP 200), no RSS/Atom feed found or autodiscovered. Re-probed 2026-07-31: HTTP 200, robots allows, still no feed. ACTIVATED 2026-07-31 with the html-index adapter. Gate 3: the press-release index is an HTML table of 37 releases — roughly five months of output at CFTC's few-per-week rate — and every row states its date twice, as a <time datetime> and as visible 07/31/2026 text, so the whole table is agency-dated and nothing is dated by observation. The stored text is the row itself (headline plus release number, ~20 chars); the release body is on the linked page and is deliberately not fetched (mode feed-only, one request per poll), because section 6 renders the attributed title and citation and nothing more. Depth is generous enough that pagination is not a risk here.

How we ingest it

Channel

HTML index

Method

html-index adapter via AgencyClient — one listing fetch per poll, no article fetches (mode feed-only).

Adapter

html-index

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: delivering 5 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-09-25; 0 of 350 request(s) to www.cftc.gov returned no content.

This label has held since 2026-08-03T18:46:01Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-09-29T09:47:01Z (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.

Our ingestion assessment