# Laws.Africa Developer Guide ## Laws.Africa Developer Guide - [Laws.Africa Developer Guide](https://developers.laws.africa/readme.md) - [Platform overview](https://developers.laws.africa/get-started/overview.md): Start building with the Laws.Africa Legal Knowledge Platform. - [Choose Knowledge Bases or the Content API](https://developers.laws.africa/get-started/choose-an-api.md): Choose the Laws.Africa API that matches your product. - [Pricing and plans](https://developers.laws.africa/get-started/pricing.md): Laws.Africa Legal Knowledge Platform plans, limits and pricing. - [Manage your plan and subscription](https://developers.laws.africa/get-started/manage-your-plan.md): Manage your Laws.Africa platform plan, subscription, usage and service access. - [Authentication and API keys](https://developers.laws.africa/get-started/authentication.md): Authenticate Laws.Africa API requests with an API token. - [Knowledge Bases](https://developers.laws.africa/knowledge-bases/knowledge-bases.md): Retrieve authoritative African legal context for AI, search and workflow tools. - [Quick start](https://developers.laws.africa/knowledge-bases/quick-start.md): Make your first Laws.Africa Knowledge Base query. - [Concepts](https://developers.laws.africa/knowledge-bases/concepts.md): Core concepts for working with Laws.Africa Knowledge Bases. - [Use results in your app](https://developers.laws.africa/knowledge-bases/use-in-apps.md): Use Knowledge Base results in RAG, search and legal agent workflows. - [Filters](https://developers.laws.africa/knowledge-bases/filters.md): Filter Knowledge Base retrieve requests. - [Legislation Knowledge Bases](https://developers.laws.africa/knowledge-bases/legislation.md): Work with legislation Knowledge Bases. - [Judgment Knowledge Bases](https://developers.laws.africa/knowledge-bases/judgments.md): Work with judgment Knowledge Bases. - [API Reference](https://developers.laws.africa/knowledge-bases/reference.md): Knowledge Base API reference. - [List Knowledge Bases](https://developers.laws.africa/knowledge-bases/reference/list-knowledge-bases.md): List Knowledge Bases available to your account. - [Get a Knowledge Base](https://developers.laws.africa/knowledge-bases/reference/get-a-knowledge-base.md): Get details for a single Knowledge Base. - [Query a Knowledge Base](https://developers.laws.africa/knowledge-bases/reference/query-a-knowledge-base.md): Query a Knowledge Base for matching legal context. - [Content API](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/content-api.md): Fetch full legislation content and metadata from Laws.Africa. - [Quick start](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/quick-start.md): Fetch legislation from the Laws.Africa Content API. - [Works and expressions](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/works-and-expressions.md): Understand these two important concepts. - [Webhooks](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/webhooks.md): Webhooks are push notifications when a work is created, updated or deleted. - [How to use the Table of Contents API](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/how-to-use-the-table-of-contents-api.md): Using the Laws.Africa Table of Contents API in your application. - [How to download images](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/how-to-download-images.md): Downloading embedded images from the Laws.Africa Content API. - [API Reference](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference.md): Content API reference. - [Authentication](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/authentication.md) - [Pagination](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/pagination.md) - [Places](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/countries-and-localities.md): List the places - countries and localities (sub-country regions) - that are available from the Content API. - [All work expressions](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/all-work-expressions.md): Fetch all work expressions. - [Single work expression](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/works-and-expressions.md): Fetch a single work expression using an FRBR URI. - [Commencements](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/works-and-expressions/commencements.md): Get the details of commencement events for an expression. - [Embedded images](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/works-and-expressions/embedded-images.md): Fetch metadata and files for images embedded in the content of a work expression. - [Publication document](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/works-and-expressions/publication-document.md): Fetch the details of the original publication document for a work. - [Table of Contents](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/works-and-expressions/table-of-contents.md): Fetching the Table of Contents for an expression. - [Timeline](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/works-and-expressions/timeline.md): Fetch the timeline description for a work expression. - [Taxonomy topics](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/taxonomy-topics.md): Taxonomies are used to classify works. - [Enrichment datasets](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/enrichment-datasets.md): Enrichment datasets add additional detail to provisions of a work. - [Changelog](https://developers.laws.africa/content-api/reference/changelog.md): Changes to the Laws.Africa API. - [Content API legislation reader](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/about-the-tutorial.md) - [Module 1: Build a legislation reader](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-1-build-a-legislation-reader.md): Building a basic Django app to display legislation fetched from the Laws.Africa Content API. - [Introductory concepts](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-1-build-a-legislation-reader/introductory-concepts.md): Some key details before we build our legislation app. - [Create a basic Django app](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-1-build-a-legislation-reader/create-a-basic-django-app.md) - [Create database models](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-1-build-a-legislation-reader/create-database-models.md): Create models for storing data in the database. - [Fetching the data](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-1-build-a-legislation-reader/fetching-the-data.md): Fetching and storing data from the Laws.Africa Content API. - [Work listing page](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-1-build-a-legislation-reader/work-listing-page.md): Add a page to list works. - [Expression detail page](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-1-build-a-legislation-reader/expression-detail-page.md): Add a document detail page. - [Styling with Law Widgets](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-1-build-a-legislation-reader/styling-with-law-widgets.md): Adding styles to the document content. - [Adding interactivity](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-1-build-a-legislation-reader/adding-interactivity.md): Adding some basic interactivity using Law Widgets. - [Staying up to date](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-1-build-a-legislation-reader/staying-up-to-date.md): Getting the latest data from the Content API. - [Module 2: Enrichments and interactivity](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-2-enrichments-and-interactivity.md): Enriching your documents and adding advanced interactivity. - [Basic enrichments](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-2-enrichments-and-interactivity/basic-enrichments.md): Adding and displaying simple enrichments. - [Advanced enrichments](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-2-enrichments-and-interactivity/advanced-enrichments.md): Fetching enrichments from the Laws.Africa Enrichments API. - [Advanced interactivity](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-2-enrichments-and-interactivity/advanced-interactivity.md): Adjusting content styles based on enrichment information. - [Module 3: Text extraction for search and analysis](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-3-text-extraction-for-search-and-analysis.md): How to extract text from Akoma Ntoso XML documents for use in full-text search indexing and machine learning analysis. - [Why extracting text is important](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-3-text-extraction-for-search-and-analysis/why-extracting-text-is-important.md): Why would you want to extract text from an Akoma Ntoso XML document? - [Basics of text extraction](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-3-text-extraction-for-search-and-analysis/basics-of-text-extraction.md): Basic methods of extracting text from an Akoma Ntoso XML document. - [Advanced text extraction](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-3-text-extraction-for-search-and-analysis/advanced-text-extraction.md): How to extract text from particular elements or portions of a document. - [Extracting text for analysis and machine learning](https://developers.laws.africa/tutorials/module-3-text-extraction-for-search-and-analysis/extracting-text-for-analysis-and-machine-learning.md): How to extract text from all portions of a document, for use in analysis or machine learning. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. 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