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International sources, no licence desk.

SourceActs only wraps public government and treaty portals. We do not resell Lexis, Westlaw, or other licensed collections.

Which official sources does SourceActs cover?

SourceActs connects AI agents to public government and treaty portals only. Search, fetch, and latest updates are live for EUR-Lex / EU Cellar, legislation.gov.uk, the U.S. Federal Register, the Canada Gazette, Denmark's Retsinformation, WTO Documents Online, the UN Official Document System, and Brazilian federal legislation. The eGazette of India is catalogued but not searchable yet.

  • EU — EUR-Lex / EU Cellar: directives, regulations, decisions, and Official Journal metadata via the public Cellar SPARQL endpoint. MCP source value: eurlex (default).
  • United Kingdom — legislation.gov.uk: Acts and statutory instruments via the public Atom API. uk
  • United States — U.S. Federal Register: rules, proposed rules, notices, and presidential documents via federalregister.gov/api/v1. us
  • Canada — Canada Gazette: recent Part II instruments (SOR/SI) parsed from official issue indexes. canada
  • Denmark — Retsinformation: newest Lovtidende acts; fetch by ELI, "LOV nr … af …", or accession number. denmark
  • Global — WTO Documents Online: official WTO documents by symbol or title. wto
  • Global — UN Official Document System: latest via the UN Digital Library RSS; fetch by UN symbol through undocs.org. un
  • Brazil — Brazilian federal legislation: laws and decrees via legis.senado.leg.br. brazil
  • India — eGazette of India: catalogued only (experimental). Use the official portal for certified text.

Does SourceActs use Lexis, Westlaw, or other paid legal databases?

No. SourceActs only wraps public government and treaty portals. It does not resell Lexis, Westlaw, or other licensed collections, and it does not wrap curated summaries such as the IAPP or DLA Piper handbooks — only raw official texts and their metadata.

Which sources are included on the free tier?

Free keys search and fetch EUR-Lex and UK legislation only. The Starter plan ($5 / month) turns on the other wired official sources plus overnight gazette updates and signed webhook watches. See pricing.

What do the tiers official_feed, portal_listing, and experimental mean?

They describe how SourceActs reaches each publisher. official_feed is a machine API or Atom/RSS feed of instruments. portal_listing is an official HTML or RSS listing that still returns fetchable identifiers. experimental means the source is catalogued only and not yet searchable.

  • official_feed: EUR-Lex, UK, Denmark, US, Brazil, Canada
  • portal_listing: WTO, UN
  • experimental: India

Are there limits on how each source can be searched?

Yes, a few. The live notes for each source:

  • Denmark (Retsinformation): keyword search scans about 150 newest rows — not full-text of the historic corpus. Pass an ELI (e.g. eli/lta/2026/357) for history.
  • UN: keyword search filters the newest 25 Digital Library RSS items; fetch by UN symbol returns only the undocs.org link.
  • Brazil: keyword search filters recent-year ementas; fetch a specific law such as Lei nº 13.709/2018 or a normas.leg.br URN.
  • India: not machine-wrapped yet — the gazette TLS chain is incomplete from many hosts and India Code is CDN-blocked.

Why isn't the eGazette of India searchable yet?

The eGazette of India is catalogued but not machine-wrapped: its TLS certificate chain is incomplete from many hosts and India Code is CDN-blocked from SourceActs' environment. A red probe for India on the status page is expected until that changes. Use the official portal for certified text.

Reuse terms for each source → Source compliance. Is a source reachable right now? → Source status. Use the source parameter in a call → Docs.

Source Region Access Tools Tier
EUR-Lex / EU Cellar
Primary corpus. Directives, regulations, decisions, and Official Journal metadata.
European Union Public SPARQL at publications.europa.eu — no licence fee search, fetch, latest official_feed
WTO Documents Online
Official WTO documents by symbol or title via Documents Online HTML search.
Global Public Documents Online search — no licence fee search, fetch, latest portal_listing
UN Official Document System
Latest via the UN Digital Library RSS. Fetch by UN symbol through undocs.org. Keyword search filters the latest feed; the ODS HTML search is bot-challenged.
Global Public Digital Library RSS and undocs.org symbol resolver search, fetch, latest portal_listing
legislation.gov.uk
Acts and statutory instruments with official Atom feeds.
United Kingdom Public Atom API — no key required search, fetch, latest official_feed
Retsinformation (Denmark)
Newest Lovtidende acts via the official document-search listing. Fetch by ELI (eli/lta/2026/357), LOV nr … af …, or accession number. Keyword search filters recent titles — not full-text of the historic corpus. Harvest at api.retsinformation.dk is the overnight change feed (max one call / 10s).
Denmark Public document search, ELI JSON-LD, and harvest API — no key search, fetch, latest official_feed
U.S. Federal Register
Rules, proposed rules, notices, and presidential documents via federalregister.gov/api/v1.
United States Public JSON API — no key, no licence fee search, fetch, latest official_feed
eGazette of India
Not machine-wrapped yet: the gazette TLS chain is incomplete from many hosts, and India Code is CDN-blocked. Use the portal for certified text.
India Official gazette site, public HTML portal experimental
Brazilian federal legislation
Laws and decrees via legis.senado.leg.br. Fetch Lei nº 13.709/2018 or a normas.leg.br URN. Keyword search filters recent-year ementas.
Brazil Senado Dados Abertos JSON — no key search, fetch, latest official_feed
Canada Gazette
Recent Part II instruments (SOR/SI) parsed from official issue indexes.
Canada Official Part I/II RSS plus issue indexes, public search, fetch, latest official_feed

Tiers: official_feed is a machine API or Atom/RSS of instruments; portal_listing is an official HTML/RSS listing that still returns fetchable identifiers; experimental is catalogued only. See source compliance for reuse notes. IAPP and DLA Piper handbooks are not wrapped — they are curated summaries, not raw official texts.