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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Timeline

Fetch the timeline description for a work expression.

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The timeline for a work includes details of publication, amendment, commencement, consolidation and repeal events.

Get the timeline for an expression

Get work timeline

get

API that returns the event timeline for a work.

Authorizations
Path parameters
frbr_uristringRequired

The FRBR URI of the work or work expression, without the first slash, such as akn/za/act/1994/2/

Responses
200Success
application/json
get
GET /v3/{frbr_uri}/timeline HTTP/1.1
Host: 
Accept: */*
200Success
{
  "timeline": [
    {
      "date": "2025-05-14",
      "events": [
        {
          "type": "amendment",
          "description": "text",
          "by_frbr_uri": "text",
          "by_title": "text",
          "note": "text"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
  • Get the timeline for an expression
  • GETGet work timeline