Developers

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REST API

Base URL: https://openlegalcodes.org/api/v1

GET /jurisdictions                              # List all jurisdictions
GET /jurisdictions?state=CA                     # Filter by state
GET /jurisdictions/:id                          # Jurisdiction metadata
GET /jurisdictions/:id/toc?depth=2              # Table of contents
GET /jurisdictions/:id/code/:path               # Section text + permalink
GET /jurisdictions/:id/search?q=parking         # Keyword search
GET /lookup?city=Mountain+View&state=CA         # Find by name

MCP Server

Add to your Claude Desktop config for direct tool access:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "legal-codes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["tsx", "src/mcp.ts"],
      "cwd": "/path/to/open-legal-codes"
    }
  }
}

Tools: lookup_jurisdiction, list_jurisdictions, get_table_of_contents, get_code_text, search_code

CLI

npx tsx src/cli.ts query  --jurisdiction ca-mountain-view --path part-i/article-i/section-100
npx tsx src/cli.ts toc    --jurisdiction ca-mountain-view --depth 2
npx tsx src/cli.ts search --jurisdiction ca-mountain-view --query "parking"
npx tsx src/cli.ts crawl  --jurisdiction ca-mountain-view
npx tsx src/cli.ts list   --state CA

Claude Code

Clone the repo and use built-in slash commands:

/query-code ca-mountain-view part-i/article-i/section-100
/search-codes ca-mountain-view "parking"
/crawl-jurisdiction ca-mountain-view

GitHub

Source code: github.com/mchusma/open-legal-codes