Legifrance Jurisprudence Scraper: French Case Law API (DILA)
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Search French case law via the official Legifrance / PISTE API: Cour de cassation, Conseil d'Etat, CAA, TA. Decision text, ECLI, articles cites, jurisprudences citees, formations, solutions. Avocats, legal-tech, litigation analytics. $8/1K.
search = keyword/filter search across French jurisprudence; lookup = fetch one or more specific JURI decision IDs (e.g. JURITEXT000048...).
Free-text search across decision content. Examples: 'rupture brutale relation commerciale', 'licenciement economique', 'droit au respect vie privee'. Combined with filters via AND.
List of Legifrance JURI decision IDs to fetch directly (e.g. ['JURITEXT000048465147', 'JURITEXT000048130128']). Use with mode=lookup.
[]List of juridictions to include. Common values: 'Cour de cassation', 'Conseil d'Etat', 'Cour d'appel', 'Tribunal administratif', 'Cour administrative d'appel', 'Tribunaux des conflits'. Empty = all juridictions.
[]Lower bound of decision date (inclusive). Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Example: '2020-01-01'.
Upper bound of decision date (inclusive). Format: YYYY-MM-DD. Example: '2026-06-20'. Defaults to today.
PERTINENCE = relevance (default), DATE_DESC = newest first, DATE_ASC = oldest first.
Fetch the full decision text from the /consult/juri endpoint for each result (1 extra API call per record). Enable for legal-NLP pipelines, disable for cheap metadata-only scrape.
Maximum number of decisions to return. The PISTE search API caps at ~10,000 results per query; we paginate in batches of 10.
Your PISTE (api.piste.gouv.fr) OAuth2 client_id. Register free at https://piste.gouv.fr (sandbox + prod, ~2000 req/day free). If empty, the actor will look for the PISTE_CLIENT_ID environment variable.
Your PISTE OAuth2 client_secret (matches the client_id). Keep secret. If empty, the actor will look for the PISTE_CLIENT_SECRET environment variable. WARNING: do NOT post credentials in shared task JSON.