French Law Articles & Codes (Légifrance API)

What does French Law Articles & Codes do?

It gets French law straight from the official Légifrance API and returns clean JSON:

• Articles by reference: give Code du travail L1234-1, Code civil 1240 or C. com. L. 225-35 and get the article text, its status, its validity dates, its place in the code and its Légifrance link.
• Keyword search in the codes: find every article of the Code du travail (or any of the 76 codes in force) about période d'essai renouvellement.
• Collective agreements (KALI): search inside a convention collective by its IDCC number, e.g. what IDCC 1557 says about the trial period.
• Any date: get the law as it was in force on a given date.

No PISTE account, no OAuth, no API key to manage: just run it.

Who is it for?

• Legal and HR AI agents: ground answers in the exact article text instead of guessing
• Legal tech and RAG builders: load up-to-date articles into your knowledge base
• Lawyers, in-house counsel, HR and payroll teams: check the current wording of an article or an agreement clause in bulk
• Compliance teams: track the version of an article in force at a given date

Pairs well with France Collective Agreement (IDCC) Finder (find the IDCC of a company from its SIRET) and French Case Law Search (court decisions applying these articles).

How to use it

Articles by reference

{
  "mode": "articles",
  "references": ["Code du travail L1234-1", "Code civil 1240", "C. com. L. 225-35"],
  "date": "2024-01-01"
}

Keyword search in a code

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "période d'essai renouvellement",
  "code": "Code du travail",
  "maxResults": 20
}

Search a collective agreement

{
  "mode": "collectiveAgreement",
  "idcc": "1557",
  "query": "période d'essai",
  "maxResults": 10
}

Output example

{
  "reference": "Code civil 1240",
  "found": true,
  "code": "Code civil",
  "number": "1240",
  "status": "VIGUEUR",
  "validFrom": "2016-10-01",
  "validTo": null,
  "path": "Livre III : Des différentes manières dont on acquiert la propriété > Titre III : Des sources d'obligations > Sous-titre II : La responsabilité extracontractuelle > Chapitre Ier : La responsabilité extracontractuelle en général",
  "text": "Tout fait quelconque de l'homme, qui cause à autrui un dommage, oblige celui par la faute duquel il est arrivé à le réparer.",
  "legifranceUrl": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000032041571",
  "source": "Légifrance (DILA), Licence Ouverte 2.0. Not legally binding: only the Journal officiel is."
}

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $0.005 per article returned with its full text
• $0.002 per search result without full text

References not found are free.

Data source

All data comes from the official Légifrance API of the DILA (Direction de l'information légale et administrative), published under the Licence Ouverte 2.0 and accessed through the PISTE government portal. As stated by the DILA, the consolidated texts are informational and not legally binding: only the signed PDFs of the Journal officiel are. Results are not legal advice.

En français

Récupérez le texte officiel des articles de loi depuis l'API Légifrance : tous les codes (Code du travail, Code civil, Code de commerce, CGI...), recherche par mots-clés, conventions collectives par IDCC, et versions à une date donnée. Sans compte PISTE ni clé API.