Legifrance MCP Server - French Journal Officiel (JORF) for AI Agents (Laws, Decrees, Arretes)

Apify-hosted Legifrance MCP server giving AI agents live access to the French Journal Officiel (JORF) - laws, decrees, arretes, decisions - backed by the free official DILA Open Data feed (echanges.dila.gouv.fr/OPENDATA/JORFSIMPLE/). 6 tools, no API key, no proxy, no OAuth. $0.01 per tool call.

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What is the Legifrance MCP Server?

The Legifrance MCP Server is an Apify actor implementing the Model Context Protocol for the French Journal Officiel, the official daily publication of every French law, decree, ministerial arrete, decision and circulaire. This MCP server fetches the daily JORF archives published by DILA (Direction de l'information legale et administrative) and exposes 6 tools that your AI agent can call directly.

Wire it into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Continue.dev to give your agent live read access to French primary legal sources - search a JORF issue, fetch a specific decree, list every law promulgated in the past month.

Why this exists (Light Legifrance)

The full PISTE Legifrance API requires manually registering a free OAuth2 client (cannot be done headlessly, gates the use case for agents). This actor takes the same primary source - the official DILA JORF dumps - and serves it through a simple MCP interface. The data is identical: laws, decrees, arretes published in the Journal Officiel of the French Republic.

Coverage: the rolling ~10 most recent months of JORF (DILA's retention window for the public open-data feed). For older archives, use the static historical dumps on data.gouv.fr.

Use cases

• Legal-research agents - "Find the JORF entry for LOI n.2026-381 of 19 May 2026"
• Compliance monitoring - daily scan of new arretes from Ministere du travail affecting payroll
• Public-sector intelligence - "Has any decree been signed in the last 14 days mentioning transition ecologique?"
• Government-contract teams - cross-reference JORF dates with BOAMP tender publications
• Newsroom / journalism bots - feed the latest LOI promulgations into a daily summary pipeline

Tools available

Tool	What it returns
list_jorf_days(days)	Which calendar dates have an available JORF archive (rolling window).
get_jorf_summary(date)	Table of contents + per-nature counts for one JORF issue.
search_jorf(date, query, limit)	Full-text search within one JORF day (title + visas + notice + body).
get_jorf_text(date, text_id)	Full text of a specific JORF entry by JORFTEXT... id.
list_recent_laws(days, nature, limit)	List recent LOI / DECRET / ARRETE / DECISION across N days.
search_text_id(text_id)	Locate a JORFTEXT id by scanning recent days.
list_tools	Free - schema discovery.

Input

{
  "mode": "call_tool",
  "tool_name": "search_jorf",
  "arguments": { "date": "2026-05-19", "query": "transition ecologique", "limit": 10 }
}

Output (sample)

{
  "id": "JORFTEXT000054113360",
  "nature": "LOI",
  "title": "LOI n. 2026-381 du 19 mai 2026 visant a soutenir les collectivites territoriales dans la prevention et la gestion des inondations",
  "num": "2026-381",
  "nor": "TECX2506131L",
  "date_publi": "2026-05-20",
  "date_texte": "2026-05-19",
  "ministere": null,
  "id_eli": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/loi/2026/5/19/TECX2506131L/jo/texte",
  "legifrance_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/loi/2026/5/19/TECX2506131L/jo/texte",
  "body_excerpt": "L'Assemblee nationale et le Senat ont adopte. Le President de la Republique promulgue la loi dont la teneur suit ..."
}

Pricing

PAY_PER_EVENT - $0.01 per tool call (= $10 per 1,000 calls). The list_tools discovery call is free. No charge on errors. Result count does not affect the charge - one tool call is one charge.

FAQ

What's the latency on new JORF entries? DILA publishes the daily JORFSIMPLE archive a few hours after the Journal Officiel comes out (typically the same evening or the next morning). This MCP server reads the live index, so new days appear automatically.

Does this cover the full Code du travail / Code civil? No - only the JORF (the daily Journal Officiel containing newly published / modified texts). For consolidated codes you would need PISTE OAuth access. JORF gives you the primary law as published, which is the canonical source.

Why is the coverage limited to ~10 months? That's the rolling window DILA keeps live on echanges.dila.gouv.fr. For historical archives back to 1990, see the bulk dump on data.gouv.fr.

Why MCP and not just a scraper? An MCP server lets your AI agent chain queries naturally: "List recent LOI, then fetch the full text of the first one, then search the day's JORF for related decrees." For one-shot bulk extraction, BOAMP Scraper (tender announcements) and BODACC MCP Server (commercial court) make a strong FR public-data triad with this actor.

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License: MIT - Author: dltik