Developers

Lexipedia REST API

A versioned JSON API for Swiss laws and court decisions. Public read endpoints are unauthenticated.

OpenAPI

The machine-readable specification is available at /api/openapi.json.

curl https://lexipedia.io/api/openapi.json

Public Endpoints

Method	Path	Description
GET	/api/v1/laws	List laws, ordinances, treaties, and other legislation records.
GET	/api/v1/laws/{documentId}	Fetch one law with HTML and plain-text content.
GET	/api/v1/laws/search	Search laws with the canonical legal search engine.
GET	/api/v1/decisions	List court decisions with metadata and pagination.
GET	/api/v1/decisions/{documentId}	Fetch one court decision with HTML and plain-text content.
GET	/api/v1/decisions/search	Search court decisions with the canonical legal search engine.

Pagination

List endpoints accept limit and offset. The default limit is 20 and the maximum public page size is 100.

{
  "data": [],
  "pagination": { "limit": 20, "offset": 0, "total": 0 },
  "links": { "self": "/api/v1/laws?limit=20&offset=0" }
}

Examples

curl "https://lexipedia.io/api/v1/laws?locale=fr&type=law&limit=10&sort=number&order=asc"

curl "https://lexipedia.io/api/v1/laws/search?q=contrat&locale=fr&sort=relevance"

curl "https://lexipedia.io/api/v1/decisions?locale=de&court=BGer&fromDate=2024-01-01&sort=publication_date&order=desc"

curl "https://lexipedia.io/api/v1/decisions/search?q=bonne%20foi&locale=fr&court=BGer"

curl "https://lexipedia.io/api/v1/decisions/123?locale=fr"

Errors

{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_found",
    "message": "Decision not found."
  }
}