# French Law Articles & Codes (Légifrance API) (`klyve1/france-legifrance`) Actor

Get any article of French law from the official Légifrance API: Code du travail, Code civil, Code de commerce and every other code, laws and decrees, and collective agreements (KALI). Current or historical versions, clean text, MCP-ready. No PISTE account needed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/klyve1/france-legifrance.md
- **Developed by:** [Nico Klyve](https://apify.com/klyve1) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 article with full texts

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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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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 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

```json
{
  "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

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

#### Search a collective agreement

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

#### Output example

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

articles = fetch articles by reference; search = keyword search in the codes; collectiveAgreement = search inside a collective agreement (by IDCC).

## `references` (type: `array`):

One per line: code name and article number, e.g. "Code du travail L1234-1", "Code civil 1240", "Code de commerce L. 225-35". Common abbreviations work (C. civ., C. trav., CGI...).

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

Words to look for, in French, e.g. "période d'essai renouvellement".

## `code` (type: `string`):

Optional code name, e.g. "Code du travail". Leave empty to search all codes in force.

## `idcc` (type: `string`):

4-digit collective agreement number, e.g. 1557. Use the France Collective Agreement (IDCC) Finder to get it from a SIRET.

## `date` (type: `string`):

Get the law as it was in force on this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Default: today.

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

Fetch the complete text of each article found. Articles fetched by reference always include their text.

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

Maximum number of articles returned.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "articles",
  "references": [
    "Code du travail L1234-1",
    "Code civil 1240",
    "Code de commerce L225-35"
  ],
  "includeFullText": true,
  "maxResults": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per article of French law or collective agreement: reference, text, status, validity dates and Légifrance link.

# 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 = {
    "references": [
        "Code du travail L1234-1",
        "Code civil 1240",
        "Code de commerce L225-35"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("klyve1/france-legifrance").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 = { "references": [
        "Code du travail L1234-1",
        "Code civil 1240",
        "Code de commerce L225-35",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("klyve1/france-legifrance").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 '{
  "references": [
    "Code du travail L1234-1",
    "Code civil 1240",
    "Code de commerce L225-35"
  ]
}' |
apify call klyve1/france-legifrance --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/uFjzdFRxLZXHXeGyW/builds/2K2QKuTeHslPaLJuO/openapi.json