enriquelop

OP here. Thank you for the incredible response — I did not expect this.

Many of you asked if the code is shared. It is now: https://github.com/legalize-dev

The pipeline is multi-country by design. France already works as a second country (Légifrance data). Adding a new country means implementing 4 Python interfaces for your national gazette. The rest (markdown, git, web, API) is generic.

I wrote a guide for contributors who want to add their country: https://github.com/legalize-dev/legalize-pipeline/blob/main/...

From this thread alone, people asked about Germany, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, and Brazil. If you know your country's open data source for legislation, a PR is the best way to help.

I'll be honest — I don't know how much time I'll be able to dedicate to this, but I'd love to build something big. Legislation is massive and scaling to more countries takes real infrastructure. I'm setting up an Open Collective to fund hosting and development: https://opencollective.com/legalize

Live site with browsable laws + diffs: https://legalize.dev

Everything is still very precarious, time to time.

Thank you

I built a pipeline that converts all Spanish state legislation into version-controlled Markdown. Each law is a file, each reform is a real git commit with the historical date. 8,642 laws, 27,866 commits.

The idea: legislation is just patches on patches on patches. Git already solves this. Instead of reading "strike paragraph 3 and replace with...", you get an actual diff.

The repo is the product. Browse any law, git log to see its full reform history, git diff to see exactly what changed.

Built the pipeline in ~4 hours with Claude Code. Source is BOE (Spain's official gazette) consolidated legislation API.

Exploring whether there's a business here — structured legislation API for legaltech/compliance, or just a useful open dataset. Curious what HN would build with this data.