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Access Nolo.com legal articles, state renters' rights guides, legal dictionary definitions, and DIY legal products via a structured REST API.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/93bea3f2-2ea1-4550-8ecb-8cdb3bcc8c66/get_recent' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Fetch recently modified articles from Nolo.com. Returns a list of articles with titles and URLs, ordered by most recently updated.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"data": "array of article objects each containing title and url"
},
"sample": {
"data": [
{
"url": "https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/a-j-1-visa-the-us-who-qualifies.html",
"title": "A J-1 Visa to the U.S.: Who Qualifies?"
},
{
"url": "https://www.nolo.com/landlord-tenant/how-to-delay-an-eviction-in-colorado.html",
"title": "How to Delay an Eviction in Colorado"
}
],
"status": "success"
}
}About the nolo.com API
The Nolo.com API exposes 10 endpoints covering legal articles, state-specific renters' rights guides, a legal dictionary, and the Nolo product catalog. Use get_article to retrieve full article text with author, last-updated date, and structured sections, or call get_state_renters_rights with a state name to pull topic categories and article links for any of the 50 U.S. states and D.C.
Article and Content Endpoints
The get_article endpoint accepts a url_path parameter (e.g. '/legal-encyclopedia/how-to-delay-an-eviction.html') and returns the article title, author, last_updated date, a sections array of heading/content pairs, and a full_text string concatenating all section content. URLs for articles can be sourced from search_articles, get_recent, or get_trending, each of which returns arrays of objects containing title and url. search_articles also supports a page parameter for pagination and includes a snippet field per result.
Renters' Rights Coverage
Three endpoints address tenant law specifically. get_renters_rights_overview returns top-level categories with URLs and associated key articles. get_state_renters_rights_index lists all 50 states plus D.C. with their dedicated page URLs. get_state_renters_rights takes a state string (as returned by the index endpoint) and returns a categories array, each containing a category name and a list of articles — useful for mapping state-specific landlord-tenant law topics programmatically.
Search and Dictionary
search_all runs a global query across Nolo's full content network, returning results with title, url, snippet, and a source field indicating which Nolo network site the result originates from. search_articles scopes results to editorial articles only. get_legal_dictionary_term takes a legal term string and returns its dictionary definition — covering terms from everyday legal vocabulary like lease or eviction to Latin phrases like habeas corpus.
DIY Legal Products
get_books_by_topic accepts a topic string (e.g. 'divorce', 'bankruptcy') and returns a products array. Each product object includes title, url, author, edition, prices, and description, reflecting Nolo's catalog of self-help legal books and tools.
- Build a state-by-state renters' rights reference tool using get_state_renters_rights and get_state_renters_rights_index
- Index Nolo's legal encyclopedia for a legal research chatbot using search_articles and get_article
- Look up plain-English definitions of legal terms in consumer apps using get_legal_dictionary_term
- Surface trending and recently updated legal content in a legal news digest via get_trending and get_recent
- Recommend relevant DIY legal books by topic in a legal self-help platform using get_books_by_topic
- Cross-reference article text with last_updated dates to flag potentially stale legal information in a compliance tool
- Aggregate Nolo search results alongside other legal sources using search_all with the source field to identify origin
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