JORF Scraper — Journal Officiel de la France API (Legifrance + DILA)

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Scrape the Journal Officiel de la République Française (JORF) — every decret, loi, arrete, ordonnance, decision and avis published in France. Search by date range, NATURE, ministry or NOR code. Get full body text, ELI URI, signataires, Legifrance URL, ministere — all the structured fields compliance, lawtech and public-affairs teams need. No OAuth, no API key, no quota. Built on the official DILA open data feed.

✨ What makes this scraper different

Feature	This scraper	Generic FR gov scrapers
Official DILA JORFSIMPLE feed (authoritative source)	✅	❌ HTML scraping
Per-article structured records (not raw HTML)	✅	❌
Full body text reconstructed article-by-article	✅	❌ partial
NOR, ELI URI + ELI alias, SIGNATAIRES extracted	✅	❌
Filter by NATURE, ministere substring, NOR prefix	✅	❌
Date-range backfill (last ~10 months)	✅	❌ live only
No OAuth, no rate limit, no proxy	✅	varies
Success rate (live)	99%+	varies
Price per article	$0.005	unknown

What can this JORF scraper do?

• 🇫🇷 Full JORF coverage — every decret, loi, arrete, ordonnance, decision, avis, circulaire and deliberation published in the Journal Officiel
• 🗓️ Date-range search — pick any window in the last ~10 months (DILA rolling archive)
• ⚖️ NATURE filter — restrict to DECRET / LOI / ARRETE / DECISION / etc.
• 🏛️ Ministere filter — substring match on MINISTERE (e.g. interieur, economie, sante)
• 🔎 NOR lookup mode — pass exact NOR codes (12-char identifier) and get back the matching articles
• 📝 Full structured fields — NOR, ELI URI, ELI alias, signataires, visas, notice, travaux préparatoires, full body text
• 🔗 Legifrance URL included on every record — direct link to the official text
• 🚀 HTTP-only — no OAuth, no quota, no proxy, no JavaScript

What data can you extract per JORF article?

Field	Description
id	JORF text ID (e.g. JORFTEXT000054280280)
nature	DECRET / LOI / ARRETE / DECISION / ORDONNANCE / AVIS / DELIBERATION ...
title	Full title (TITREFULL)
title_short	Short title (TITRE)
num	Official number (e.g. 2026-518)
num_parution	JORF issue number (e.g. 0143)
num_sequence	Sequence within the issue
nor	NOR code, 12 chars (e.g. INTD2604081D) — primary key for compliance teams
date_publi	Publication date in JORF (YYYY-MM-DD)
date_texte	Date of the underlying text (when different from publication)
origine	Always JORF for this scraper
ministere	Issuing ministry (e.g. Ministère de l'intérieur)
autorite	Issuing authority (when set)
id_eli	Canonical ELI URI (NOR-based)
id_eli_alias	ELI alias URI (NUM-based)
legifrance_url	Direct Legifrance URL
visas	"Vu …" preamble text
notice	Public-friendly notice (publics concernés, objet, entrée en vigueur)
travaux_preparatoires	TP/CONTENU section when present
signataires	Signatories block (Prime Minister, ministers)
body_text	Full text concatenated article-by-article
body_length	Character count of body_text
source_archive	Source DILA archive filename (auditability)
scraped_at	UTC timestamp of extraction

How to scrape the Journal Officiel in 5 steps

1. Create a free Apify account — no credit card required
2. Open JORF Scraper on Apify Store
3. Pick a date range — e.g. dateFrom=2026-06-01, dateTo=2026-06-20 (max 60 days)
4. Optional filters — natureFilter=["DECRET","LOI"], ministereContains="interieur", or norList=["INTD2604081D"]
5. Click Start — get clean JSON in seconds, exportable to CSV / JSON / Excel from the Apify dataset UI

How much does it cost to scrape the JORF?

PAY_PER_EVENT — $0.005 per article extracted ($5 per 1,000 articles). Failed/empty runs not charged.

Run size	Articles	Apify cost	Time
Quick test	10	$0.05	~10s
Standard	100	$0.50	~30s
Deep	500	$2.50	~2min
Massive	5,000	$25.00	~15min

Why this price? Compute + bandwidth per article ≈ $0.0002 → ~95% margin. DILA is free open data; we pass the savings to compliance teams that schedule daily runs at ~150-500 articles/day.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
dateFrom	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	yesterday	Lower bound for DATE_PUBLI
dateTo	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	today	Upper bound for DATE_PUBLI (inclusive)
natureFilter	array of strings	—	e.g. ["DECRET","ARRETE","LOI"]
ministereContains	string	—	Substring match (case-insensitive) on MINISTERE
norPrefix	string	—	NOR prefix (e.g. INTD for Interieur)
norList	array of strings	—	Exact NOR codes for lookup mode
includeBodyText	bool	true	Include full body_text (set false for metadata-only)
maxResults	integer	100	1–5000
proxyConfig	object	none	DILA is unmetered — proxy rarely needed

Output example

{
  "id": "JORFTEXT000054280280",
  "nature": "DECRET",
  "title": "Décret n° 2026-518 du 18 juin 2026 complétant la liste des décisions pouvant donner lieu à une enquête administrative en application de l'article L. 114-1 du code de la sécurité intérieure",
  "title_short": "Décret n°2026-518 du 18 juin 2026",
  "num": "2026-518",
  "num_parution": "0143",
  "num_sequence": "1",
  "nor": "INTD2604081D",
  "date_publi": "2026-06-20",
  "date_texte": "2026-06-18",
  "origine": "JORF",
  "ministere": "Ministère de l'intérieur",
  "autorite": "",
  "id_eli": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2026/6/18/INTD2604081D/jo/texte",
  "id_eli_alias": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2026/6/18/2026-518/jo/texte",
  "legifrance_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2026/6/18/INTD2604081D/jo/texte",
  "visas": "Le Premier ministre, Sur le rapport du ministre de l'intérieur, Vu le code de la sécurité intérieure ...",
  "notice": "Publics concernés : professionnels de l'automobile ...",
  "travaux_preparatoires": "",
  "signataires": "Fait le 18 juin 2026. Sébastien Lecornu Par le Premier ministre : Le ministre de l'intérieur, Laurent Nunez ...",
  "body_text": "Article 1: Le code de la sécurité intérieure est modifié ...",
  "body_length": 4321,
  "source_archive": "JORFSIMPLE_20260620-002841.tar.gz",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-20T08:00:00Z"
}

Use cases

• ⚖️ Lawtech & compliance — daily ingestion of every new decret + arrete touching a sector (NOR prefix or ministere substring)
• 🏛️ Public-affairs monitoring — track which ministries are publishing what, in real time
• 📚 Legal-research SaaS — pre-built dataset of French national law, refreshed daily
• 🔎 NOR cross-reference — pull the full text for a list of NOR codes referenced in your case docs
• 🤖 AI legal assistants — clean structured corpus to fine-tune or RAG French-law LLMs
• 📊 Regulatory dashboards — chart decret/loi publication velocity per ministere over time
• 📰 Press monitoring — alert when a new text matching a keyword hits the JORF

Use the actor via API

Python:

import requests

run = requests.post(
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/dltik~jorf-bulletin-officiel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
    json={
        "dateFrom": "2026-06-15",
        "dateTo": "2026-06-20",
        "natureFilter": ["DECRET", "ARRETE"],
        "ministereContains": "interieur",
        "includeBodyText": True,
        "maxResults": 200
    },
    timeout=300
).json()
print(f"Scraped {len(run)} JORF articles")

curl:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/dltik~jorf-bulletin-officiel-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"dateFrom":"2026-06-15","dateTo":"2026-06-20","natureFilter":["LOI"],"maxResults":50}'

FAQ

Where does the data come from? Directly from DILA (Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative), the official publisher of the JORF. We pull from https://echanges.dila.gouv.fr/OPENDATA/JORFSIMPLE/ — the canonical open-data feed used by Legifrance itself. No HTML scraping, no anti-bot risk.

How far back can I scrape? DILA's JORFSIMPLE feed keeps a rolling window of approximately the last 10 months of daily archives. For older articles (going back to 1947), use the PISTE / Legifrance API with OAuth2 (free, but requires manual registration at piste.gouv.fr).

Do I need an API key? No. The DILA open-data feed is unauthenticated and unmetered. Just plug Apify input and run.

What about scheduled runs at midnight? DILA publishes the daily JORF archive between 00:00 and 03:00 Paris time. Runs scheduled in that window may return an empty result for "today" — schedule after 04:00 UTC for safety.

What's the difference vs the Legifrance MCP Server? The MCP server is for AI agents (Claude, GPT) doing tool calls one at a time. This scraper is for bulk extraction — give it a date range and get a clean dataset. Complementary, not overlapping.

Will my IP get banned? No reports so far — DILA's open-data servers are unmetered. We've stress-tested at hundreds of archives downloaded per day with no throttle. If you somehow get blocked, flip on the optional datacenter proxy.

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License: MIT · Author: dltik