Australia Legislation Scraper — Acts & Instruments

Search Australia's entire federal statute book — Acts and Legislative Instruments — from the official Federal Register of Legislation. Title, dates, collection, principal-vs-amending flag, in-force status, and ready-to-use register/download links. Full OData filtering. Free keyless API.

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What you get

Per legislation title:

• Identity — register id, name, collection (Act / Legislative Instrument / …), subCollection, seriesType
• Numbering & dates — year, number, makingDate, asMadeRegisteredAt
• Status flags — isPrincipal (principal vs amending), isInForce, status
• Provenance — originatingBillUri
• Links — registerUrl, latestTextUrl and latestDownloadsUrl on legislation.gov.au (the full statute text lives there)

Output sample

{
  "id": "C2004A03712",
  "name": "Privacy Act 1988",
  "collection": "Act",
  "subCollection": "PrincipalAct",
  "seriesType": "Act",
  "year": 1988,
  "number": 119,
  "isPrincipal": true,
  "isInForce": true,
  "status": "InForce",
  "makingDate": "1988-12-14",
  "asMadeRegisteredAt": "2004-08-13",
  "originatingBillUri": null,
  "registerUrl": "https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A03712",
  "latestTextUrl": "https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A03712/latest/text",
  "latestDownloadsUrl": "https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A03712/latest/downloads"
}

Input

Field	Type	Description
search	string	Title substring match (e.g. Privacy).
collection	string	Act, LegislativeInstrument, NotifiableInstrument, …
status	string	InForce, NoLongerInForce, Repealed.
isPrincipal	boolean	Only principal (non-amending) titles.
filter	string	Raw OData $filter, e.g. year eq 2020.
select	string	Comma-separated $select fields.
orderby	string	$orderby, e.g. makingDate desc.
titleIds	array	Fetch specific titles by register ID (overrides search).
maxResults	integer	Cap on rows (default 100).

Example input

{
  "search": "Privacy",
  "collection": "Act",
  "isPrincipal": true,
  "maxResults": 50
}

More examples: in-force Acts newest first {"collection":"Act","status":"InForce","orderby":"makingDate desc","maxResults":200}; specific titles {"titleIds":["C2004A03712","C2004A00748"]}.

Why this actor

• Whole-country coverage — the official OData API for Australia's federal register, deep-paged over the entire result set (not just page one).
• Full OData grammar — friendly inputs for the common filters plus a raw $filter/$select/$orderby escape hatch.
• Ready-to-use links — every row carries direct text/download URLs so you can jump from metadata to the full statute.

Pricing

Pay per result — $4 per 1,000 results (one result = one legislation title). No subscription; you pay only for what you get.

Notes & limits

• The full statute text is served by the register website, not this JSON API. Each row includes latestTextUrl and latestDownloadsUrl for the content.
• Official public data; you are responsible for compliant use. Not affiliated with the Commonwealth of Australia.

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