Legislation news API

What this covers

Proposed and enacted legislation, parliamentary proceedings and regulatory instruments. Procedural coverage is thin in most markets and detailed in a few, which makes outlet choice unusually consequential.

Querying it

Pair with a country filter always — legislative process is inherently national and an unscoped query mixes incomparable systems. Trade and specialist press covers committee stages that general press picks up only at final passage.

GET /stories?topic=LEGISLATION&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

What catches people out

General coverage appears at introduction and at passage, missing the stages where the substance is usually decided. If you need the process rather than the outcome, the specialist press is the source and a topic query alone will not find it.

Who publishes on it

Parliamentary reporters at national outlets, specialist policy and trade press covering committee stages, and general coverage at introduction and passage. The specialist layer is where substance is decided and reported.

What it is best for

Best for following a specific bill when paired with a country and the specialist outlets covering that sector. Weakest for general legislative monitoring, since most process is invisible to the general press and passage coverage arrives after decisions are made.

Monitoring it over time

Following a bill requires the specialist press, and finding it requires an outlet constraint because volume ranking buries low-frequency specialist titles under general coverage. Build the outlet set once per policy area and reuse it; the same handful of publications cover each sector's legislative process across years.

Signals that pair with it

Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.

• signal_public_sector
• signal_legal_litigation
• signal_governance_risk

GET /search?topic=LEGISLATION&signal=signal_public_sector&signal_min=0.25

How signals work →

Recent coverage

From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

Who covers it

cfi.net.cn · tribunnews.com · pr-inside.com · prnewswire.com · baomoi.com · news.yam.md · cairnspost.com.au · udn.com · zazoom.it · haberler.com · indiatimes.com · setn.com

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.