🏛️ Australia Federal Register of Legislation Scraper

🚀 Export Australian legislation in seconds. Pull Acts, legislative instruments, and other titles from the official Federal Register of Legislation, complete with title IDs, making dates, and in-force status.

Turn the Australian Federal Register of Legislation into clean, structured records you can drop into a compliance tracker, a legal research database, or a policy monitoring dashboard. Search by title name, restrict to a single collection, or list the entire register, and get every matching title with its ID, making date, collection, principal flag, and current status.

Coverage is the complete public register as the Australian Government Office of Parliamentary Counsel publishes it: Acts, legislative instruments, notifiable instruments, the Constitution, continued law, gazettes, and more. Data is read live from the official api.prod.legislation.gov.au OData endpoint, so every run reflects the register at run time.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Legal researchers and law librarians	Build and refresh a searchable legislation index
Compliance and governance teams	Track which instruments are in force
Policy analysts and government affairs	Monitor new and amended titles by collection
RegTech and legal-tech builders	Seed an app with structured legislation data

📋 What the Australia Legislation Register Scraper does

This Actor queries the official Federal Register of Legislation OData API and returns one clean record per title that matches your input:

• Search the title name for a keyword such as Privacy or Migration, or leave it empty to list the whole register.
• Filter by collection to restrict results to Acts, legislative instruments, notifiable instruments, and more.
• Advanced OData filter for power users who want raw $filter expressions like isPrincipal eq true or year eq 2024.
• Sort by title ID (roughly chronological, since the ID is year-encoded) or by name.

You control how many records come back, and every record carries a scrapedAt timestamp.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: asMadeRegisteredAt, collection, id, isInForce, isPrincipal, makingDate, number, optionalSeriesNumber, originatingBillUri, scrapedAt, seriesType, status, subCollection, title, url, year. All 16 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account using this sign-up link.
2. Open the Australia Federal Register of Legislation Scraper.
3. Enter a search term or pick a collection (or leave both empty for the whole register).
4. Set maxItems to the number of records you want.
5. Click Start and grab your results when the run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the Australian Government or the Office of Parliamentary Counsel. Only publicly available data is collected.

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