# Romanian Legislation Scraper — Laws & Codes (`ponderable_hydrometer/romanian-legislation-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Romanian legislation from the official Portal Legislativ — full consolidated text of laws & codes (Civil, Penal, Fiscal, Rutier, Muncii, Administrativ), by article. No key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ponderable\_hydrometer/romanian-legislation-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ponderable Hydrometer](https://apify.com/ponderable_hydrometer) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Romanian Legislation Scraper — Laws & Codes

**The full consolidated text of Romanian laws, codes and ordinances — structured article by article — from the official Portal Legislativ (Ministry of Justice).** Major codes by friendly name, or any document by ID. Free source, no key, no anti-bot.

One result is an entire consolidated code (often hundreds of articles), each split into `{ number, text }` — ideal for legaltech and AI legal assistants / RAG over the Romanian legal corpus.

### What you get

One result per document:

- **Metadata** — `id`, `title`, `docType` (LEGE / COD / ORDONANȚĂ …), `number`, `date`
- **Publication reference** — `publishedIn` (Monitorul Oficial citation)
- `articleCount` and canonical `url`
- **Structured articles** — `articles[]`, each `{ number, text }` (when `includeArticles: true`)
- Or a single `fullText` field (when `includeArticles: false`) — metadata plus concatenated text

### Modes

- **Major codes by name** — pass `codes` with any of: `fiscal`, `civil`, `penal`, `muncii`, `administrativ`, `rutier`. Each returns the entire consolidated code.
- **Any document by ID** — pass `documentIds` (the number from a `/Public/DetaliiDocument/{id}` URL).

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `codes` | array | `["fiscal"]` | Preset code names: `fiscal`, `civil`, `penal`, `muncii`, `administrativ`, `rutier` |
| `documentIds` | array | — | Portal Legislativ document IDs |
| `includeArticles` | boolean | `true` | Return structured `articles[]`; off = metadata + `fullText` |

Provide `codes` and/or `documentIds`.

### Example input

```json
{ "codes": ["fiscal", "penal"], "includeArticles": true }
````

By document ID:

```json
{ "documentIds": ["171282", "263997"], "includeArticles": true }
```

### Output sample

```json
{
  "id": "171282",
  "title": "COD FISCAL 08/09/2015",
  "docType": "COD FISCAL",
  "number": "227",
  "date": "08/09/2015",
  "publishedIn": "MONITORUL OFICIAL nr. 688 din 10 septembrie 2015",
  "articleCount": 646,
  "url": "https://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/171282",
  "articles": [
    { "number": "Articolul 1", "text": "Scopul și sfera de cuprindere…" }
  ]
}
```

### Why this actor

- **Consolidated, article-level text** — the up-to-date merged law, not a raw PDF, split per article for direct RAG chunking.
- **Official source** — Portal Legislativ (Ministry of Justice), keyless, no anti-bot.
- **Friendly presets** — grab the fiscal/civil/penal codes by name, no ID hunting.
- **High value per result** — a full code in one structured document.

### Pricing

Pay per result — **$5.00 per 1,000 results** (one result = a whole consolidated code / law). No subscription or platform fees.

### Related actors

- **Romania Medicine Prices** — official ANMDMR/CANAMED medicine equivalents and prices.
- **EU Tenders / TED Scraper** — EU public procurement notices.
- **SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper** — US company filings and full-text search.

### Notes & limits

- Data is the official Portal Legislativ (legislatie.just.ro); the actor sets a descriptive User-Agent and retries on 429/5xx.
- Provide document IDs (from a `/Public/DetaliiDocument/{id}` URL) for documents outside the six presets.
- Article parsing follows the portal's consolidated-document markup; unusual layouts may split differently.
- Public official data; this actor is an independent tool, not affiliated with the Romanian Ministry of Justice.

# Actor input Schema

## `codes` (type: `array`):

Fetch a major Romanian code by name — one or more of: fiscal, civil, penal, muncii, administrativ, rutier.

## `documentIds` (type: `array`):

Any legislatie.just.ro document IDs (from a /Public/DetaliiDocument/{id} URL), e.g. \["171282","263997"].

## `includeArticles` (type: `boolean`):

Return each document's articles as a structured array (number + text). Turn off for metadata + a single fullText field.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

legislatie.just.ro blocks datacenter IPs, so requests are routed through Apify Proxy (residential by default). Leave as-is unless you know what you're doing.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "codes": [
    "fiscal"
  ],
  "includeArticles": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "RO"
  }
}
```

# 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 = {
    "codes": [
        "fiscal"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "RO"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ponderable_hydrometer/romanian-legislation-scraper").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 = {
    "codes": ["fiscal"],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "RO",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ponderable_hydrometer/romanian-legislation-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "codes": [
    "fiscal"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "RO"
  }
}' |
apify call ponderable_hydrometer/romanian-legislation-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=ponderable_hydrometer/romanian-legislation-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Romanian Legislation Scraper — Laws & Codes",
        "description": "Scrape Romanian legislation from the official Portal Legislativ — full consolidated text of laws & codes (Civil, Penal, Fiscal, Rutier, Muncii, Administrativ), by article. No key.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "PACcmvtDKjrj8gL7a"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/ponderable_hydrometer~romanian-legislation-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-ponderable_hydrometer-romanian-legislation-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/ponderable_hydrometer~romanian-legislation-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-ponderable_hydrometer-romanian-legislation-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/ponderable_hydrometer~romanian-legislation-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-ponderable_hydrometer-romanian-legislation-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "codes": {
                        "title": "Major codes (presets)",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Fetch a major Romanian code by name — one or more of: fiscal, civil, penal, muncii, administrativ, rutier.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "documentIds": {
                        "title": "Document IDs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Any legislatie.just.ro document IDs (from a /Public/DetaliiDocument/{id} URL), e.g. [\"171282\",\"263997\"].",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "includeArticles": {
                        "title": "Include full article text",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Return each document's articles as a structured array (number + text). Turn off for metadata + a single fullText field.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "legislatie.just.ro blocks datacenter IPs, so requests are routed through Apify Proxy (residential by default). Leave as-is unless you know what you're doing.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": true,
                            "apifyProxyGroups": [
                                "RESIDENTIAL"
                            ],
                            "apifyProxyCountry": "RO"
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
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                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```
