Cleo Legal Data API

The world's law, via one API.

A REST API + MCP connector to query 46,031 product regulations and 211,369 legal regulations across 177 jurisdictions — from your product, monitoring pipelines, or AI agents.

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46,031+

product regs

211,369

legal regs

177

jurisdictions

1.9M+

legal documents

How the API works

Three steps to plug Cleo into your stack, no infrastructure or manual refresh.

Access

We open your account and hand over a secure key, rotatable at any time.

Call

Your application queries the catalog with simple requests, from any language.

Data

You receive sources, jurisdictions and categories refreshed continuously, ready to plug in.

One call · one result

Filter by jurisdiction, product category, or enforcement body. Pagination, webhooks and MCP included.

curl · GET /regulations

curl https://api.legaldata.cleolabs.co/v1/regulations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLEO_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "jurisdiction=FR" \
  --data-urlencode "category=cosmetics" \
  --data-urlencode "limit=20"

# → {
#   "data": [
#     {
#       "id": "reg_eu_1223_2009",
#       "name": "EU Cosmetics Regulation",
#       "ref": "(EC) No 1223/2009",
#       "jurisdiction": "EU",
#       "enforcement_body": "EC DG GROW + NCAs",
#       "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/..."
#     }, ...
#   ],
#   "next_page": "/v1/regulations?cursor=..."
# }

Playground

Compose your call in 30 seconds.

Pick an endpoint, tune the filters, copy the curl or see the sample response. No API key required to try.

✓
5 ready endpoints
regulations · sources · jurisdictions · product-categories · product/check
✓
Live curl generation
With authentication, query strings and JSON body — paste right into your terminal.
✓
Full sample response
See the exact JSON shape before writing a line of client-side code.

Open the playground →

GET/v1/regulations

jurisdiction

Pick your atlas

Same catalog, three viewpoints: cross-topic (all subjects), physical-product compliance, or customs & HS code.

Legal Atlas

Public map of worldwide law, machine-readable. 211,369 regulations indexed across 177 jurisdictions — health, finance, environment, AI, data privacy, labor, tax, all topics. Legislation, case law, doctrine.

211,369 regs · 1.94M docs · 1,494 sources · 177 jurisdictions

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Physical-product coverage

Product Compliance Atlas

Specialized for physical-product compliance: 46,031 dedicated regulations across 20 categories — cosmetics, electronics, toys, medical devices, food, textile, pharma, automotive, drones, tobacco…

46,031 product regs · 20 categories · 103 jurisdictions

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Customs & HS coverage