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IETF RFC Editor Index Scraper
Extract every published IETF RFC with metadata: title, authors, status, stream, obsoletes/updates relationships, DOI, and abstract. ~9,700 RFCs from RFC 1 to today, fully filterable.
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Extract structured metadata for every published IETF Request for Comments (RFC) — the foundational standards documents of the Internet, from RFC 1 (1969) through today's TLS, HTTP/3, OAuth, and DNS specifications. This Actor parses the official RFC Editor XML index and turns ~9,700 RFCs into clean, filterable JSON.
The IETF RFC corpus is the canonical source-of-truth for how the Internet works. Engineers, standards consultants, protocol researchers, compliance auditors, patent prosecutors, and AI agents reasoning about networking all need it as structured data — not a 20MB XML file. This Actor solves that.
Key Features
- Every RFC — From RFC 1 to the latest publication, including obsoleted documents
- Status & stream filters — Filter by Proposed Standard, Internet Standard, Best Current Practice, Informational, Experimental, Historic; or by stream (IETF / IAB / IRTF / Independent / Legacy)
- Year range — Pull RFCs by publication year window
- Keyword filter — Substring match across title, keywords, and abstract
- Current-only mode — Skip RFCs that have been obsoleted by a newer document
- Standards relationships — Captures
obsoletes,obsoleted-by,updates,updated-by, andalso-known-as(BCP/STD/FYI) cross-references - No authentication — Public IETF data source
Output Data Fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
rfcNumber | Integer RFC number |
docId | Document ID (e.g., RFC9293) |
title | RFC title |
authors | List of author names |
month / year | Publication month and year |
formats | Available file formats (ASCII, HTML, PDF, XML) |
pageCount | Page count |
currentStatus | Current status (Proposed Standard, Internet Standard, etc.) |
publicationStatus | Original publication status |
stream | Publishing stream (IETF, IAB, IRTF, Independent, Legacy) |
doi | Digital Object Identifier |
keywords | Author-supplied keywords |
abstract | Plain-text abstract |
obsoletes | Doc-IDs of RFCs this one obsoletes |
obsoletedBy | Doc-IDs of RFCs that obsolete this one |
updates | Doc-IDs this one updates |
updatedBy | Doc-IDs that update this one |
alsoKnownAs | BCP / STD / FYI document IDs |
hasErrata | Whether errata exist |
rfcUrl | Canonical rfc-editor.org URL |
How to Scrape the RFC Index
- Open the RFC Editor Index Scraper on Apify Store
- (Optional) Filter by status, stream, year range, or keyword
- (Optional) Enable "Current RFCs Only" to skip obsoleted documents
- Click Start — every matching RFC is written to the default dataset
Pricing
This Actor uses pay-per-result pricing. A full ~9,700-RFC extract finishes in well under a minute since it parses a single XML file.
Use Cases
- Standards tracking — Subscribe to a filter (e.g., new TLS RFCs) for compliance updates
- Patent prior-art search — Filter by year/keyword to find pre-existing protocol disclosures
- AI protocol assistants — Build RAG pipelines that answer questions about IETF standards
- Vendor compliance audits — Confirm products implement current (not obsoleted) RFCs
- Academic / education — Bulk metadata for citation tooling and curriculum design
Legal & Disclaimer
The IETF RFC series is published by the RFC Editor and is freely available under the IETF Trust Legal Provisions. This Actor reads the public rfc-index.xml from rfc-editor.org and parses it locally. No authentication is bypassed. Data is provided "as is" without warranty.
