# Thai Royal Gazette Alerts in English (Laws, EHS, Business) (`chatuporn/thai-royal-gazette-alerts`) Actor

New Thai laws and notices from the Royal Gazette (ราชกิจจานุเบกษา) by topic, with English labels: environment, pollution, hazardous substances, product standards, labour, tax. For factory EHS and ISO 14001/45001 legal registers. Alerts to Slack, Telegram, LINE, webhook.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/chatuporn/thai-royal-gazette-alerts.md
- **Developed by:** [Chatuporn Duangthong](https://apify.com/chatuporn) (community)
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## Pricing

from $0.01 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## Thai Royal Gazette Alerts in English (Laws, EHS, Business)

**Know when Thailand changes a rule that affects you.** This Actor reads every new item published in the Thai Royal Gazette (ราชกิจจานุเบกษา), labels it by topic in English, filters out the noise and sends you what matters: to Slack, Discord, Telegram, LINE, a webhook, or a dataset you can export to Excel.

Built for **factory EHS managers and ISO 14001 / ISO 45001 legal registers**, compliance and HR teams, law firms and foreign investors who need to follow Thai regulation without reading 3,000 Gazette items a month.

### Why use this

- **The noise is gone.** About two thirds of the Gazette are bankruptcy and court notices. They are left out by default, so a factory sees roughly 50–100 relevant items a month instead of 3,000.
- **English labels.** Every item gets English topics (e.g. *Waste and hazardous substances*, *Product standards (TISI)*, *Labour and professions*), the document type (*Act*, *Royal Decree*, *Ministerial Regulation*, *Notification*) and the Gazette part. Titles stay in Thai, as published.
- **Ready-made presets.**
  - **Factory EHS / ISO 14001 & 45001:** environment, all pollution types, waste and hazardous substances, climate, industry, product standards, labour, social security, energy, electricity, petroleum, buildings, disasters, food and drugs, mining.
  - **Doing business in Thailand:** commerce, tax and customs, investment and SEZs, international trade, labour, finance, securities, banking, insurance, accounting, standards, consumer protection, digital and IP.
- **Only new rules if you want.** One switch keeps Acts, Royal Decrees, Ministerial Regulations and rule-making notices, and drops appointments and registrations.
- **Thai keyword search that works.** Spaces and letter case are ignored, so `วัตถุอันตราย` also matches `วัตถุ อันตราย`.
- **The text when you need it.** Optionally add the start of each item's text, extracted from the PDF, plus the link to the official PDF.
- **Each item once.** Schedule the Actor (daily or weekly); with *Only items not delivered before* on, you get each item once.

### Examples

**Weekly EHS digest for a factory, to Telegram**

```json
{ "preset": "factory_ehs", "lookbackDays": 7, "telegramBotToken": "...", "telegramChatId": "..." }
```

**New Ministerial Regulations and Acts only, any topic**

```json
{ "preset": "", "onlyLaws": true, "lookbackDays": 30 }
```

**Everything from the Department of Industrial Works or the Pollution Control Department**

```json
{ "preset": "", "agencyContains": "กรมโรงงานอุตสาหกรรม", "lookbackDays": 30 }
```

**Minimum wage, social security and hazardous substances, to Slack**

```json
{ "preset": "", "keywords": ["ค่าจ้างขั้นต่ำ", "ประกันสังคม", "วัตถุอันตราย"], "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/..." }
```

### Output

```json
{
  "id": "2026-10-29-00136135",
  "title": "กฎกระทรวงกำหนดให้ผลิตภัณฑ์อุตสาหกรรมแผงเซลล์แสงอาทิตย์ชนิดผลึกซิลิคอนต้องเป็นไปตามมาตรฐาน พ.ศ. ๒๕๖๙",
  "docType": "กฎกระทรวง",
  "docTypeEn": "Ministerial Regulation",
  "isLaw": true,
  "publishDate": "2026-10-29",
  "gazettePart": "ก",
  "gazettePartEn": "Part A: legislation",
  "specialIssue": false,
  "volume": "143",
  "issue": "68",
  "page": "6",
  "agency": null,
  "govLevel": null,
  "action": "rulemaking",
  "actionEn": "New or amended rule",
  "topics": [
    { "slug": "industry", "en": "Industry", "th": "อุตสาหกรรม" },
    { "slug": "standards", "en": "Product standards (TISI)", "th": "มาตรฐานผลิตภัณฑ์" }
  ],
  "matchedTopics": ["industry", "standards"],
  "matchedKeywords": [],
  "pdfUrl": "https://ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/documents/136135.pdf",
  "textExcerpt": "หน้า ๖ เล่ม ๑๔๓ ตอนที่ ๖๘ ก ราชกิจจานุเบกษา ๒๙ ตุลาคม ๒๕๖๙ กฎกระทรวง ..."
}
```

### Good to know

- **Freshness.** The source mirror is updated daily, usually one or two days after the Gazette publishes an item.
- **Agency is not always known.** The source fills `agency` for notices; for Acts and Ministerial Regulations it is often empty, and the title says who issued it.
- **Topics come from the source dataset's classifier.** It is good but not perfect: a few items are tagged with a broad topic (e.g. rules of a professional council under *Labour and professions*). Use exclude keywords to tune a feed.
- **Not legal advice, and not a legal register.** The Actor tells you what was published. Whether an item applies to your site, and what you must do, still needs a person to decide. Titles are not translated; topic and type labels are.
- **Personal data.** Bankruptcy and court notices name individuals; they are excluded by default and no personal fields are extracted from them.

### Data source and licence

Royal Gazette items published by the Secretariat of the Cabinet (ratchakitcha.soc.go.th), via the open dataset **open-law-data-thailand/soc-ratchakitcha** on Hugging Face (CC BY 4.0). Laws, regulations and official announcements are not copyright works under section 7 of the Thai Copyright Act B.E. 2537. Every item carries a `source` field; please keep the attribution when you republish.

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by any Thai government agency.

# Actor input Schema

## `preset` (type: `string`):

A ready-made set of topics. Factory EHS covers environment, pollution, waste and hazardous substances, industry, product standards, labour, energy, buildings and disasters. Topics below are added to the preset.

## `topics` (type: `array`):

Keep items with at least one of these topics (from the dataset's classification).

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Thai words in the title or issuing agency, e.g. วัตถุอันตราย, โรงงาน, ค่าจ้างขั้นต่ำ, ระยอง. Spaces and letter case are ignored.

## `excludeKeywords` (type: `array`):

Skip items whose title or agency contains any of these.

## `agencyContains` (type: `string`):

e.g. กรมโรงงานอุตสาหกรรม, กรมควบคุมมลพิษ, กระทรวงแรงงาน.

## `onlyNewRules` (type: `boolean`):

Acts, royal decrees, ministerial regulations and items classified as rule-making. Skips appointments, registrations and similar notices.

## `onlyLaws` (type: `boolean`):

Stricter than the option above.

## `gazetteParts` (type: `array`):

Empty = all parts.

## `excludeTopics` (type: `array`):

Skip items with these topics.

## `includeCourtAndBankruptcy` (type: `boolean`):

About two thirds of all Gazette items are bankruptcy and court notices; they are left out unless you turn this on or pick those topics.

## `lookbackDays` (type: `integer`):

How many days of publications to check. The source is updated daily, usually 1-2 days after publication.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remembers what earlier runs with the same filters returned. Keep on when you schedule the Actor.

## `includeText` (type: `boolean`):

Adds textExcerpt (Thai, extracted from the PDF). Slower: the monthly text files are 25-55 MB.

## `textChars` (type: `integer`):

Used with 'Add the start of the text'.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

0 = no limit.

## `webhookUrl` (type: `string`):

Slack and Discord webhook URLs get readable messages; any other URL gets a JSON POST with all items. Optional: items are always in the dataset, and Apify integrations (email, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make) work too.

## `telegramBotToken` (type: `string`):

From @BotFather. Needs the chat ID below.

## `telegramChatId` (type: `string`):

Your chat, group or channel ID.

## `lineChannelAccessToken` (type: `string`):

Messaging API channel access token of your LINE Official Account. Needs the recipient ID below.

## `lineTo` (type: `string`):

The user ID (U...) or group ID (C...) to push to.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "preset": "factory_ehs",
  "onlyNewRules": false,
  "onlyLaws": false,
  "includeCourtAndBankruptcy": false,
  "lookbackDays": 7,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "includeText": false,
  "textChars": 1500,
  "maxItems": 500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Every item with all fields.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Date, type, title, agency, topics and PDF link.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "preset": "factory_ehs"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("chatuporn/thai-royal-gazette-alerts").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "preset": "factory_ehs" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("chatuporn/thai-royal-gazette-alerts").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "preset": "factory_ehs"
}' |
apify call chatuporn/thai-royal-gazette-alerts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,chatuporn/thai-royal-gazette-alerts"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/esoefZjQLiDqcqTSG/builds/SlWOkjGmjN6p6Pjvd/openapi.json