French Tax MCP Server

Instructions

Implementation Reference

• french_tax_mcp/server.py:528-531 (registration)

  Registration of the MCP tool named 'search_tax_law' using the @mcp.tool decorator.
  @mcp.tool( name="search_tax_law", description="Search for tax law articles on legifrance.gouv.fr", )
• french_tax_mcp/server.py:532-558 (handler)

  MCP tool handler wrapper for 'search_tax_law'. Logs the query using context and delegates execution to the imported 'search_tax_law' function from legal_scraper, handles exceptions.
  async def search_tax_law_wrapper( query: str, ctx: Optional[Context] = None, ) -> Optional[Dict]: """Search for tax law articles on legifrance.gouv.fr. Args: query: Search query ctx: MCP context for logging Returns: Dict: Dictionary containing search results """ try: if ctx: await ctx.info(f"Searching tax law for: {query}") result = await search_tax_law(query) return result except Exception as e: if ctx: await ctx.error(f"Failed to search tax law: {e}") return { "status": "error", "message": f"Error searching tax law: {str(e)}", }
• french_tax_mcp/scrapers/legal_scraper.py:164-283 (handler)

  Core handler implementation within LegalScraper class. Builds a comprehensive Legifrance search URL targeting French tax codes (CGI etc.), scrapes the page, extracts results using BeautifulSoup, formats success/error responses.
  async def search_tax_law(self, query: str) -> Dict: """Search for tax law articles on legifrance.gouv.fr. Args: query: Search query Returns: Dictionary containing search results """ logger.info(f"Searching for tax law articles with query: {query}") try: # Construct search URL with comprehensive parameters for tax code articles # This includes all article types (L, R, T, A, D, M, V, etc.) and specific tax codes # Build URL parameters base_params = ( f"query={query}&corpus=CODES&typePagination=DEFAUT&pageSize=10&page=1" "&tab_selection=code&searchField=ALL&searchType=ALL" ) # Article scope parameters (all types: L, R, T, A, D, M, V, etc.) article_scopes = [ "CODE_ARTICLE", "CODE_ARTICLE_C", "CODE_ARTICLE_L", "CODE_ARTICLE_R", "CODE_ARTICLE_T", "CODE_ARTICLE_A", "CODE_ARTICLE_D", "CODE_ARTICLE_M", "CODE_ARTICLE_V", "CODE_ARTICLE_LO", "CODE_ARTICLE_LP", "CODE_ARTICLE_LR", "CODE_ARTICLE_LD", "CODE_ARTICLE_LM", "CODE_ARTICLE_LV", "CODE_ARTICLE_RO", "CODE_ARTICLE_RP", "CODE_ARTICLE_RR", "CODE_ARTICLE_RD", "CODE_ARTICLE_RM", "CODE_ARTICLE_RV", "CODE_ARTICLE_TO", "CODE_ARTICLE_TP", "CODE_ARTICLE_TR", "CODE_ARTICLE_TD", "CODE_ARTICLE_TM", "CODE_ARTICLE_TV", "CODE_ARTICLE_AO", "CODE_ARTICLE_AP", "CODE_ARTICLE_AR", "CODE_ARTICLE_AD", "CODE_ARTICLE_AM", "CODE_ARTICLE_AV", "CODE_ARTICLE_DO", "CODE_ARTICLE_DP", "CODE_ARTICLE_DR", "CODE_ARTICLE_DD", "CODE_ARTICLE_DM", "CODE_ARTICLE_DV", "CODE_ARTICLE_MO", "CODE_ARTICLE_MP", "CODE_ARTICLE_MR", "CODE_ARTICLE_MD", "CODE_ARTICLE_MM", "CODE_ARTICLE_MV", "CODE_ARTICLE_VO", "CODE_ARTICLE_VP", "CODE_ARTICLE_VR", "CODE_ARTICLE_VD", "CODE_ARTICLE_VM", "CODE_ARTICLE_VV", ] scope_params = "&".join([f"searchScope={scope}" for scope in article_scopes]) # Code parameters codes = [ "CGIAN2", "CGIAN3", "CGIAN4", "CGICT", "CGILEGIARTI000006308740", "CGIPENAL", "CGISUBDIV", "CGITM", "LEGITEXT000006069577", ] code_params = "&".join([f"code={code}" for code in codes]) url = f"{SEARCH_URL}/code?{base_params}&{scope_params}&{code_params}" # Get the page response = await self.get_page(url) # Parse HTML soup = self.parse_html(response.text) # Extract search results search_results = self._extract_search_results(soup) return self.format_result( status="success", data={ "query": query, "results": search_results, }, message=f"Successfully searched for tax law articles with query: {query}", source_url=f"{BASE_URL}{url}", ) except Exception as e: logger.error(f"Error searching tax law: {e}") return self.format_result( status="error", message=f"Failed to search tax law: {str(e)}", data={"query": query}, error=e, )
• french_tax_mcp/scrapers/legal_scraper.py:341-350 (helper)

  Top-level helper function that delegates to the singleton LegalScraper instance's search_tax_law method. This is the entry point imported and called by the server.py wrapper.
  async def search_tax_law(query: str) -> Dict: """Search for tax law articles on legifrance.gouv.fr. Args: query: Search query Returns: Dictionary containing search results """ return await legal_scraper.search_tax_law(query)
• french_tax_mcp/scrapers/legal_scraper.py:326-326 (helper)

  Singleton instance of LegalScraper used by top-level helper functions.
  legal_scraper = LegalScraper()