German Federal Legislation Search: Laws and Regulations (Rechtsinformationen des Bundes)

neurisrechtsinformationen/search-legislation

Searches the German federal legislation held by the Rechtsinformationen des Bundes portal (NeuRIS) by German full-text search term, optionally narrowed to one exact abbreviation. Returns the matching law versions with title, abbreviation, ELI identifier, legal-force status and links to the HTML, XML and ZIP texts, 1 to 50 per page with a total count. The portal is a trial service and holds a growing part of federal law. Federal Government data, passed through unmodified and served by Eden Engine; not an official product of the Federal Government.

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Price

$0.0026 per call

You pay the price shown. If a call turns out to cost more than its quote, you pay the actual price, capped at twice the quote. No monthly minimum. Top-ups start at $0.50.

Data source

Rechtsinformationen des Bundes

Data from the Rechtsinformationen des Bundes portal (testphase.rechtsinformationen.bund.de), the Federal Government's legal information service run by DigitalService Bund for the Federal Ministry of Justice: federal legislation and decisions of federal courts. No credit is required; credit to the portal is given as a courtesy. Served by Eden Engine; not an official product of the Federal Government.

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Five steps: search, inspect, learn, run, settle. No per-tool setup; your agent reaches this tool through the meta-tools it already has.

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agent

// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })

// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "neurisrechtsinformationen/search-legislation" })

// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "neurisrechtsinformationen/search-legislation" })

// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "neurisrechtsinformationen/search-legislation", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "neurisrechtsinformationen/search-legislation", input: { /* ... */ } })

// 5. settle: the call is charged when it finishes, nothing to do

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Pricing

Every charge this tool can incur.

Charge	Price
Per call	$0.0026

Updated: Oct 21, 2026

Input and output schemas

Input schema

input_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "search_term"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "size": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 50,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Results per page, 1 to 50. Defaults to 10."
    },
    "page_index": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 199,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Zero-based page number, 0 to 199. Leave out for the first page. The portal limits how deep a search can page (page number times size), so use a smaller number with a larger size."
    },
    "search_term": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 200,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Full-text search in German. Several words match documents containing all of them; put an exact phrase in double quotes, for example \"Urlaub Arbeitnehmer\"."
    },
    "abbreviation": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^[A-Za-z0-9ÄÖÜäöüß .,/()-]{1,40}$",
      "description": "Optional exact abbreviation of the law, for example SpoFöG, to narrow the search to that law."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

output_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "totalItems",
    "member"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "@id": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "view": {
      "type": "object",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "@type": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "member": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "item": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "@id": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "name": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "encoding": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {
                  "type": "object",
                  "additionalProperties": true
                }
              },
              "abbreviation": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "alternateName": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              },
              "exampleOfWork": {
                "type": "object",
                "additionalProperties": true
              },
              "legislationIdentifier": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "legislationLegalForce": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ]
              }
            },
            "description": "A legislation version: `name`, `abbreviation`, `legislationIdentifier` (the ELI), `legislationLegalForce` and `encoding` (links to the HTML, XML and ZIP texts).",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "@type": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "textMatches": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "additionalProperties": true
            }
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": true
      }
    },
    "@context": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "totalItems": {
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "description": "A Hydra collection: `totalItems` is the total number of matches (capped at 10,000), `member` is this page, `view` carries the first/previous/next/last page links (null at the ends).",
  "additionalProperties": true
}