Austrian Federal Law & Gazette Scraper (RIS Open Data)

🇩🇪 Neue Bundesgesetzblätter, konsolidiertes Bundesrecht, Regierungsvorlagen und Begutachtungsentwürfe aus dem offiziellen RIS (Open Government Data, CC BY 4.0).

Monitor Austrian federal legislation from the official RIS – Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes:

• Federal Law Gazette (BGBl, authentic, since 2004) – newest publications first (default: last month)
• Consolidated federal law (Bundesrecht konsolidiert) – search norms by keyword/title
• Government bills (Regierungsvorlagen) and draft laws in consultation (Begutachtungsentwürfe)

Each result includes date, BGBl number, title/short title, issuing ministry, ELI identifier and direct HTML / PDF / XML links to the official text.

Use cases: regulatory & compliance monitoring, legal-tech, law firms, public affairs, feeding AI agents/RAG with current Austrian law. Schedule daily for alerts.

Who is it for?

• Legal-tech & law firms – structured, linkable Austrian legal data without building your own parser.
• Compliance & regulatory monitoring – schedule daily runs and get only new items (combine with Apify integrations: e-mail, Slack, webhooks, Google Sheets).
• Public affairs, NGOs, journalists, researchers – track legislation by topic or ministry.
• AI agents & RAG pipelines – clean JSON with official source links, ideal grounding for LLM answers about Austria.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Add this Actor as a tool in any MCP client (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT connectors, …) via the Apify MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=esint/austria-ris-law Then ask e.g. "What was published in the Austrian Federal Law Gazette this week?"

Quick start

Run with the default input – it returns recent results within seconds. Use the API endpoint run-sync-get-dataset-items for one-call integrations.

Input

Field	Description
application	BgblAuth (default), BrKons, RegV, Begut
searchTerms	full-text search, e.g. Datenschutz
titleSearch	search in titles
period	BGBl publication period (default 1 month)
maxItems	cap (default 100)

Output example

{"collection":"BgblAuth","date":"2026-10-14","gazetteNumber":"BGBl. I Nr. 85/2026","part":"I","type":"Bundesgesetz","title":"…","authority":"BMF (Bundesministerium für Finanzen)","eli":"https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/eli/bgbl/I/2026/85","htmlUrl":"https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/…","pdfUrl":"https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/…","source":"RIS – Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (OGD, CC BY 4.0)"}

Pricing

Pay per result: $2.00 per 1,000 documents.

Data, license & attribution

Source: RIS – Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, via the official OGD API (https://data.bka.gv.at/ris/api/v2.6). License: CC BY 4.0 – attribution: "Datenquelle: RIS – Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes, CC BY 4.0". Only federal legal norms and gazettes – no court decisions, no personal data. No warranty for accuracy; only the authentic RIS publications are legally binding. Not affiliated with the Federal Chancellery.