Japan e-Gov Law Search (Law API v2)
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 record scrapeds
Unofficial client for the official e-Gov Law API v2 (Digital Agency Japan, no key). List Japanese laws by type, keyword-search law text, or download a law's full text as structured 編/章/条/項 articles. 政府標準利用規約 2.0.
search (default) runs a full-text keyword search (e-Gov keyword) and returns matching laws with the matched snippets — set keyword. list returns a 法令一覧 (law index) filtered by law type — set lawType. get_law downloads one law's full text and returns its 編/章/節/条/項 articles as structured JSON — set lawId or lawNum. Case-insensitive; if you pass only a lawId the Actor switches to get_law for you. Example: "search".
search mode (REQUIRED there): free-text query over law bodies (e-Gov keyword), Japanese, e.g. "個人情報保護", "労働時間", "電子署名". Ignored in list / get_law modes.
list mode (REQUIRED there) / search mode (optional filter): the law type. Constitution=憲法, Act=法律 (most statutes), CabinetOrder=政令, ImperialOrder=勅令, MinisterialOrdinance=府省令, Rule=規則, Misc=その他. Japanese names ("法律") are accepted too. Example: "Act".
get_law mode (REQUIRED there unless lawNum is given): the e-Gov law id, e.g. "415AC0000000057" (個人情報保護法) — take it from a search/list run (the lawId field). A law_revision_id also works.
get_law mode (alternative to lawId): the 法令番号 in the official Japanese form, e.g. "平成十五年法律第五十七号" (kanji numerals, exactly as e-Gov prints it).
Maximum records to output, 1-100000 — laws (list/search) or articles (get_law). PPE charges per record. Example: 1000.
Hard safety cap on upstream requests per run, 1-25 (list/search page 1000 per request; get_law is one request). Politeness (1 connection, >= 1.2 s spacing, exponential backoff on 429/5xx) is enforced in code. Example: 10.
Apify proxy settings. Default is NO proxy (direct connection) — a public government API rarely needs one. The Actor backs off exponentially on 429/5xx and fails visibly on a persistent block; it never attempts rate-limit evasion.
{ "useApifyProxy": false}