On Legifrance a code article lives in dated versions, each tied to the text that amended it. Our Legifrance scraper collects every version with its dates and sources.
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You describe the corpus - a list of codes followed article by article, every decree one ministry signs, Chambre sociale decisions since a given year, or the agreements filed under a set of IDCC numbers. The crawler that collects it is ours to build, run and keep working through every change to Legifrance's pages, and anti-bot handling, pacing, proxy rotation and page rendering are part of the service, not a task left to you.
Runs are one-off or scheduled: daily, weekly or on demand. Every row keeps the identifier Legifrance gives the text or article, so a later run updates the same record instead of duplicating it. Scope and volume are settled in a free project assessment, and field documentation is part of the delivery.
Legifrance is several databases behind one search box, and each keeps its own kind of record. We deliver one table per kind, joined on the identifiers in the site's addresses: LEGIARTI for a code article, JORFTEXT for a Journal officiel text, JURITEXT for a court decision, KALICONT for a collective agreement, ACCOTEXT for a company agreement.
Legifrance pseudonymises private parties in court decisions - letters in brackets such as M. [D] [E] in recent decisions, X... or Y... in older ones - while companies and public bodies keep their names; we never try to restore identities. The Président and Avocat(s) lines and the Mesures nominatives of the Journal officiel name people, so they stay out by default.
The record is half of a Legifrance project; the other half is choosing the records and following how they change.
Legifrance (written Légifrance on the site) calls itself le service public de la diffusion du droit - the public service that puts French law online. It sits under the editorial responsibility of the Secrétariat général du Gouvernement, which shares its editorial design, updates and technical upkeep with the DILA, the Prime Minister's directorate for legal and administrative information. Everything is in French, and dates are typed in the JJ/MM/AAAA format.
The menu shows how the material is arranged. Droit national en vigueur (national law in force) holds the Constitution, the codes, the Textes consolidés, Jurisprudence, Circulaires et instructions and the Accords collectifs, split into Accords de branche et conventions collectives and Accords d'entreprise. Publications officielles holds the Journal officiel, the Bulletins officiels, the Débats parlementaires and Documents administratifs. Autour de la loi covers codification, the Guide de légistique, Statistiques de la norme and, under Législatif et réglementaire, Dossiers législatifs and Etudes d'impact des lois. Two further menus point to European Union and international law.
Three things matter to anyone who needs the data. Codes are consolidated: an article has a current version and a dated chain of earlier ones. The Journal officiel is the numbered, dated record of new texts, issue by issue. Case law spans the Cour de cassation, the Conseil d'État and the Conseil constitutionnel, and Cour de cassation decisions carry an ECLI next to the appeal number.
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Full plan detailsLegal texts have buyers well beyond law firms, and each needs a different slice of Legifrance.
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ScrapeIt is a managed scraping service: we design, run and repair the crawlers and deliver the data. Legal sources change slowly but forgive little - an article delivered with the wrong in-force date is worse than none - so we keep the site's own identifiers and dates on every row and re-check versions on each run. You set the corpus and the schedule; collection, parsing and quality checks are ours.
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Yes. The ScrapeIt Legifrance API returns article numbers, En vigueur depuis le dates, Modifié par references, JORF issue numbers, ECLI and Solution fields as JSON from an endpoint we host, refreshed on the schedule you set. The same data can also be delivered as XML or JSONLines files, to Amazon S3 or straight into your database.
Yes. Legifrance publishes French law for everyone: codes, the Journal officiel, collective agreements and case law are open to any visitor without an account. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on Legifrance - and we collect it legally, keeping court decisions pseudonymised exactly as the site shows them.
Yes. Each run compares the article text and its En vigueur depuis le date with the previous run, and a changed article arrives with the Modifié par reference naming the ordinance, decree or law behind the change. When the En vigueur depuis le date of a new version lies after the run date, the row is flagged as not yet in force, so you see a change before it applies.
The Journal officiel comes out on most days of the week, Sundays included, and its issue numbers run through the calendar year, each issue with its own ELI address. A daily run collects each new issue with its texts, nature, issuing ministry and NOR, and can be limited to the ministries and kinds of text you follow.
One row per decision, keyed on its JURITEXT identifier, with the court, chamber, date, N° de pourvoi, ECLI, Publié au bulletin flag, Solution, the Décision attaquée and the Texte intégral. The Titrages et résumés, Précédents jurisprudentiels and Textes appliqués of the Analyse block come as separate fields, so decisions can be grouped by the articles they apply.
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.
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