Laws.Africa Developer Guide
  • Laws.Africa Developer Guide
  • Get Started
    • Introduction
    • Quick start
    • Works and expressions
    • Webhooks
    • Changelog
  • Tutorial
    • About the tutorial
    • Module 1: Build a legislation reader
      • Introductory concepts
      • Create a basic Django app
      • Create database models
      • Fetching the data
      • Work listing page
      • Expression detail page
      • Styling with Law Widgets
      • Adding interactivity
      • Staying up to date
    • Module 2: Enrichments and interactivity
      • Basic enrichments
      • Advanced enrichments
      • Advanced interactivity
    • Module 3: Text extraction for search and analysis
      • Why extracting text is important
      • Basics of text extraction
      • Advanced text extraction
      • Extracting text for analysis and machine learning
  • Content API Reference
    • About the Content API
    • Authentication
    • Pagination
    • Places
    • All work expressions
    • Single work expression
      • Commencements
      • Embedded images
      • Publication document
      • Table of Contents
      • Timeline
    • Taxonomy topics
    • Enrichment datasets
  • AI API Reference
    • About the AI API
    • Authentication
    • Knowledge Bases
  • How-to Guides
    • How to use the Table of Contents API
    • How to download images
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  1. Content API Reference

Authentication

Calls to the API must be authenticated using your API token. To get a token,

  1. Sign up for a free Laws.Africa account at https://edit.laws.africa/accounts/login/.

  2. Get your API token from https://edit.laws.africa/accounts/profile/api/.

Include your API token in your API calls by including an Authorization header:

Authorization: Token YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN

If you're logged into your Laws.Africa account, you can also browse the API using your web browser and visiting https://api.laws.africa/v3/countries.

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