Anyone interested in govt transparency and public access should check out GovScape from @bcgl.bsky.social and his team👇
It's an incredibly powerful tool that allows visual, semantic text, and keywords search of 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages!) and counting: www.govscape.net
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New Research Tool: GovScape (US Gov PDFs)
govscape.net ||| Research Paper (preprint) About #GovScape arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010 #govdocs @eotarchive.org
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We’re live! Search 10 million+ U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages)! GovScape offers visual search, semantic text search, and keyword search. Explore below:
Website: govscape.net
ArXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010
18.11.2025 21:16 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Huge step forward in enabling access and use of content archived from government websites!
18.11.2025 20:27 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
GovScape - Search 10+ Million Government PDFs
My favorite use of govscape.net is to search "[INSERT COMPANY] lawsuit". See: the time that Skippy sued customs to demand that their fake peanut butter be recognized as "peanut butter or peanut slurry".
govscape.net/preview/KBVJ...
@bcgl.bsky.social @govscape.bsky.social
19.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Link rot on the government web is actually one of the things we’re hoping to look into with this dataset! But, if you just want the PDF, you can use the “download PDF” button to grab it from the archive instead
19.11.2025 12:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1/ Announcing GovScape – a public search system for 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages)! GovScape offers visual search, semantic text search, and keyword search. Explore below:
Website: www.govscape.net
ArXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010
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A public search system for 10+ million government PDFs available at: https://govscape.net. Follow for updates, feature announcements, and more. Maintained by @bcgl.bsky.social
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