Zacharie Laïk – There is no single place to find the world’s laws. “Legal Data Hunter is trying to fix that and 10 weeks in, it might actually work. 2 weeks ago, 351 collection scripts built by an AI agent to index the world’s laws were open sourced. Within days, lawyers and developers from around the world started opening issues on the repo – requesting sources, flagging gaps, offering local expertise. No financial incentive. Just people wanting their own laws to be findable.

Here’s what it looks like:
→ Eros Chan (Lawvable) asked about China – 29,000 laws now indexed.
→ Nephelie Amolochitou Viskadouraki, LL.M., ASCO suggested the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) for Greek financial regulation – collector built and validated.
→ Timothy (from Solid Rock) pointed Hunter to the USPTO Open Data Portal for US patent and appeals decisions – now tracked and in pipeline.
→ Donald Henderson flagged Ontario e-Laws – 857 statutes and 2,190 regulations identified, collector built.
→ Bencium® Agentic AI suggested Hungary’s national legislation database AND the UK’s new Lex API for legislation – both collectors running.
→ Luca Árpási pointed agent to Hungary’s full court decision archive AND the Competition Authority’s published resolutions – both being indexed.
→ Niall C. mapped out 5 separate UK planning appeal databases across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland – restructured the entire UK map.
→ Stephen Abbott Pugh suggested South Africa’s Open By-laws – now in pipeline.
→ Patricia Perelló Ibarra contributed 3 pages of Spanish sources – being indexed live.

Some went from “issue opened” to “fully indexed” in under 48 hours.

Status update:
– 674 collection scripts (up from 351 2 weeks ago)
– 18,000,000+ documents indexed
– 100+ countries covered
– 550+ open legal data sources tracked

Legal Data Hunter runs every 30 minutes to make all open legal sources searchable. It writes collectors, tests them, fixes what breaks. While it doesn’t yet know every jurisdiction by heart – you might be able to help it figure out your own. If there is a legal source missing from your country, please open an issue. In many cases it can get indexed in days. We’re still looking for Jurisdiction Leads – people who want to own coverage for their country in what we think might become the world’s first exhaustive database of open legal data. What’s missing from your jurisdiction?”