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Content API

Fetch full legislation content and metadata from Laws.Africa.

The Content API is a read-only API for listing and fetching published versions of legislative works.

Use it when your product needs full legislation collections inside your own systems, including:

  • Akoma Ntoso XML;

  • HTML;

  • PDF where available;

  • table of contents JSON;

  • publication, commencement, amendment and repeal metadata;

  • point-in-time legislation versions;

  • webhooks for content updates.

For AI grounding, search, RAG and legal agents, start with Knowledge Bases. Use the Content API when retrieval is not enough and your product needs deeper control over storage, processing or presentation.

Endpoint

The latest version of the Content API is version 3:

https://api.laws.africa/v3/

What you can build

The Content API is best for:

  • legal publishing systems;

  • compliance infrastructure;

  • internal legal databases;

  • offline processing;

  • analytics and classification pipelines;

  • advanced legislation rendering.

Content formats

Some API calls can return content in multiple formats. Specify the format by placing .format at the end of the URL or by using the Accept header.

  • .json or Accept: application/json: JSON

  • .xml or Accept: application/xml: Akoma Ntoso XML

  • .html or Accept: text/html: HTML

  • .epub or Accept: application/epub+zip: ePUB

  • .pdf or Accept: application/pdf: PDF

  • .zip or Accept: application/zip: ZIP file with XML and media attachments

Not all responses support all formats. Endpoint reference pages describe the formats available for each response.

OpenAPI schema

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