# LexAPI Documentation

> A complete, plainspoken reference for the LexAPI REST API. Every endpoint lists its exact request shape, response shape, and the error codes it can return.

LexAPI is a REST API over the EU legal corpus (EUR-Lex, the Court of Justice
docket, and the Official Journal). The complete documentation below is available
as Markdown for AI tools and as a machine-readable OpenAPI spec.

## Docs

- [Full documentation (Markdown)](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): Complete API reference — auth, plans, every endpoint, examples
- [Full text for LLMs](https://lex-api.com/llms-full.txt): The same documentation as a single plain-text file
- [OpenAPI specification](https://lex-api.com/openapi.yaml): Machine-readable spec for every endpoint
- [Human documentation](https://lex-api.com/docs): The rendered documentation page

## API endpoints

- [GET /api/v1/info](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [POST /api/v1/search](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [POST /api/v1/documentContent](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [POST /api/v1/documentContent/batch](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/documents/recent](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [POST /api/v1/documents/url](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [POST /api/v1/documents/metadata](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [POST /api/v1/resolve](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/documents/:celex/versions](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/documents/:celex/versions/:version](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/documents/:celex/at/:date](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [POST /api/v1/citations/extract](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/citations/cited-by/:celexNumber](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/citations/cites/:celexNumber](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/citations/network/:celexNumber](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/citations/path/:from/:to](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/citations/related/:celexNumber](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/citations/stats](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [POST /api/v1/search/semantic](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [POST /api/v1/legislation/semantic](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/export — BUSINESS and above](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [POST /api/v1/webhooks](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/webhooks](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/webhooks/:id](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [PUT /api/v1/webhooks/:id](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [DELETE /api/v1/webhooks/:id](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [POST /api/v1/webhooks/:id/test](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes
- [GET /api/v1/webhooks/:id/deliveries](https://lex-api.com/docs.md): See the Markdown docs for request/response shapes

## Optional

- [Status](https://lex-api.com/status): Live service status
- [Dashboard](https://lex-api.com/dashboard): Create and manage API keys