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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About the tutorial

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Last updated 1 year ago

This tutorial guides you through building a small Django application that lets a user read and interact with legislation loaded from the Laws.Africa Content API.

The functionality includes:

  • Fetching and storing legislation from the Laws.Africa Content API

  • Listing legislation

  • A legislation detail page with a Table of Contents and well-styled text

  • Interactivity and enrichments using the Laws.Africa Law Widgets

The tutorial is divided into three modules:

  1. : building a the app basics; data modelling; fetching and storing data; listing legislation; reading and styling legislation

  2. : basic and advanced enrichments and interactivity

  3. : extracting text from Akoma Ntoso XML for full-text search and machine learning

The full code for the Django app is available at

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Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
https://github.com/laws-africa/legislation-reader
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