Every EUR-Lex document carries a CELEX number, a set of dates and links to the acts and judgments around it. Our EUR-Lex scraper delivers that metadata with the text.
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You define the slice of EU law you need - document types, a date range, EuroVoc descriptors, authors, directory codes, a list of CELEX numbers or everything that amends one act - and we build the EUR-Lex crawler, run it and maintain it. EUR-Lex sits behind bot protection that challenges unfamiliar traffic before a page loads, so anti-bot handling, rendering, pacing and proxy rotation are included rather than left to you.
Deliveries are one-off, for a corpus of one policy area, or scheduled - daily to follow the Official Journal, weekly to watch consolidations and new case law. Each row is keyed on the CELEX number and the language, and the first file arrives with field documentation.
A EUR-Lex document page opens on the text and carries a Document information tab with the metadata analysts filter on. We extract both, under the labels EUR-Lex uses.
The text itself comes whole or split into recitals, articles and annexes, with the CELEX number on every fragment.
Legislation is one sector of many, and a useful dataset usually crosses several.
Search, the OJ issue lists and the Browse by EuroVoc and Browse by EU institutions pages set the coverage, and the CELEX number joins regulations, directives, decisions, judgments and transposition measures into one dataset. Repeated runs show amendments as they arrive: a new Modified by line, a new consolidated version, a new judgment interpreting an article.
EUR-Lex - Access to European Union law, as its header reads - is managed by the Publications Office of the European Union. It is where the Official Journal of the European Union appears, and it gathers around the journal what is needed to read an act in context: its history, its amendments, the rulings on it and the national laws that carry it out.
The home page shows the structure. EU law covers treaties, legal acts, consolidated texts, international agreements, preparatory documents, EFTA documents, lawmaking procedures and summaries of EU legislation. EU case-law covers case-law, reports of cases and the directory of case-law. National law and case-law covers national transposition, national case-law and JURE case-law. Every document belongs to a CELEX sector, which is why the CELEX number works as a key across all of them.
Documents are published in the EU languages, and a document page lists which language versions exist and can show up to three side by side. Pages run long: the Document information tab of the General Data Protection Regulation alone lists a long run of judgments under Affected by case, each tied to the article it interprets. That depth makes EUR-Lex slow to copy by hand and useful as structured data.
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsEUR-Lex data feeds work that has to know the current state of EU law, not last year's.
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ScrapeIt builds and operates crawlers for clients who need web data on a schedule, from public registers to legal databases. Legal sources reward care with identifiers: we keep the CELEX number, the ECLI and the language code on every row so that legislation, case law and transposition can be joined later. Files arrive as CSV, JSON or XML, through our API or a JSON feed, or on SFTP or Dropbox; an MCP server is available on request.
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Yes. The ScrapeIt EUR-Lex API returns the CELEX number, title, form, key dates, EuroVoc descriptors and the Modified by relations of each document as JSON through an endpoint that we host, updated on the schedule you pick. The same records can be delivered as CSV, XML or XLSX files, or loaded into your database.
Yes. Legal acts, the Official Journal, case law, consolidated texts and transposition pages are open to every EUR-Lex visitor. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on EUR-Lex - and we collect it legally. Private parties named in judgments are left out by default.
Yes. Each act lists its Modified by relations with the amending act, a comment, the subdivision concerned and the date from which the change applies, and a new consolidated version follows. A scheduled run records each new line, so you get a dated amendment history for every act you follow.
The EU's 24 official languages, from Bulgarian to Swedish, with HTML and PDF versions where they exist. We collect the languages you name and put the language code on every row, so the versions of one act join on its CELEX number.
It depends on what you follow. New acts appear in the OJ L and C series day by day, so regulatory monitoring runs daily; consolidated versions and case law move more slowly and suit a weekly run, which also matches the weekly update of the national transposition collection.
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
Tell us which sites, which fields and how often. A couple of lines is enough to start.
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