# French Administrative Case Law (Conseil d'État, CAA) (`klyve1/france-administrative-case-law`) Actor

Search French administrative court decisions (Conseil d'État, cours administratives d'appel, tribunaux administratifs) from the official Légifrance CETAT base: urban planning, public procurement, civil service, tax, immigration, environment. Summaries, keywords, full text. No API key needed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/klyve1/france-administrative-case-law.md
- **Developed by:** [Nico Klyve](https://apify.com/klyve1) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 decisions

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### What does French Administrative Case Law do?

It searches the decisions of the **French administrative courts** in the official **Légifrance CETAT** base: **Conseil d'État**, **cours administratives d'appel (CAA)** and **tribunaux administratifs**. About 570,000 decisions on urban planning, public procurement, civil service, tax, immigration, environment, local authorities, public liability...

For each decision you get: court, formation, case number, date, publication level (Lebon A/B/C), the **official summaries (abstracts)** and keywords, the Légifrance link and, optionally, the **full text**.

- Full-text search in French with filters: court type, date range, sort by relevance or most recent first
- Clean JSON, ready for spreadsheets, RAG pipelines and AI agents
- No PISTE account, no OAuth, no API key

### Who is it for?

- **Public law firms and in-house counsel** (local authorities, public companies, developers)
- **Public procurement teams**: case law on penalties, exclusions, award criteria
- **Real estate and urban planning professionals**: building permit litigation
- **Legal tech and AI builders**: French public law corpus for RAG and agents

Pairs with **French Case Law Search** (judicial courts: Cour de cassation, appeal courts) for complete coverage of French case law.

### Input example

```json
{
  "query": "permis de construire recours voisin",
  "courts": ["conseil_etat"],
  "decidedAfter": "2023-01-01",
  "sortBy": "date",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "includeFullText": true
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
  "court": "Conseil d'État",
  "courtType": "CONSEIL_ETAT",
  "caseNumber": "505473",
  "date": "2026-07-07",
  "publication": "B",
  "summaries": ["54-06-03 Le juge ne peut rejeter comme manifestement irrecevable..."],
  "legifranceUrl": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/ceta/id/CETATEXT..."
}
```

### Pricing

- **$0.003 per decision**
- **+$0.007 per decision with full text** (optional)

### Data source and reuse

Official **CETAT** database of the DILA, published on Légifrance and accessed through the PISTE government API under the **Licence Ouverte 2.0**. Names of judges, rapporteurs and lawyers are deliberately not returned: French law forbids using the identity of magistrates to evaluate, compare or predict their professional practices. Results are informational, not legal advice.

### En français

Recherchez la **jurisprudence administrative** (Conseil d'État, CAA, tribunaux administratifs) dans la base officielle CETAT de Légifrance : abstracts officiels, niveau de publication au Lebon, texte intégral. Sans compte PISTE.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Full-text search in French, e.g. "permis de construire recours voisin".

## `courts` (type: `array`):

Leave empty for all administrative courts.

## `decidedAfter` (type: `string`):

Only decisions rendered on or after this date.

## `decidedBefore` (type: `string`):

Only decisions rendered on or before this date.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Relevance or most recent first.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of decisions returned.

## `includeFullText` (type: `boolean`):

Add the complete decision text (charged as an add-on).

## `maxTextChars` (type: `integer`):

Truncate long decisions to this many characters.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "marché public pénalités de retard",
  "sortBy": "relevance",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "includeFullText": true,
  "maxTextChars": 100000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per decision: court, formation, case number, date, official summaries and keywords, Légifrance link and optional full text.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "marché public pénalités de retard"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("klyve1/france-administrative-case-law").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "query": "marché public pénalités de retard" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("klyve1/france-administrative-case-law").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "marché public pénalités de retard"
}' |
apify call klyve1/france-administrative-case-law --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,klyve1/france-administrative-case-law"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/leYckhOXWuAy0BIqo/builds/MtBNBx7j2xzj3nIAc/openapi.json