get_legal_publishers
Retrieve comprehensive metadata and publication years for all Polish legal publishers including Dziennik Ustaw and Monitor Polski to support legal research and document analysis.
Instructions
Get list of all legal act publishers (Dziennik Ustaw, Monitor Polski) with their metadata and publication years.
Input Schema
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Implementation Reference
- app.py:331-366 (handler)Handler function that implements the 'get_legal_publishers' tool. It makes a GET request to the Sejm API endpoint 'https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts' to fetch the list of legal publishers (e.g., DU, MP) with their metadata including act counts and available years, and returns the JSON data or empty list on error.def get_publishers_list() -> list: """Fetches a list of all available legal act publishers (journals) from the Sejm API. Publishers are the official gazettes where legal acts are published in Poland. The main publishers are Dziennik Ustaw (DU) and Monitor Polski (MP), each containing different types of legal documents with their own numbering systems. Returns: list: A list of publisher objects containing code, name, shortName, actsCount, and years. Returns empty list if request fails. Examples: User asks: "What publishers are available?": Returns: [{'code': 'DU', 'name': 'Dziennik Ustaw', 'actsCount': 96086}, {'code': 'MP', 'name': 'Monitor Polski', 'actsCount': 65485}] User asks: "Show me all legal act publishers": Returns: [{'code': 'DU', 'name': 'Dziennik Ustaw', 'actsCount': 96086}, ...] User asks: "What journals publish Polish law acts?": Returns: [{'code': 'DU', 'name': 'Dziennik Ustaw', 'actsCount': 96086}, {'code': 'MP', 'name': 'Monitor Polski', 'actsCount': 65485}] User asks: "List all available publishers": Returns: [{'code': 'DU', 'name': 'Dziennik Ustaw', 'actsCount': 96086}, {'code': 'MP', 'name': 'Monitor Polski', 'actsCount': 65485}] User asks: "What sources contain Polish legal acts?": Returns: [{'code': 'DU', 'name': 'Dziennik Ustaw', 'actsCount': 96086}, {'code': 'MP', 'name': 'Monitor Polski', 'actsCount': 65485}] """ logger.debug("get_publishers_list called") try: url = "https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts" logger.debug(f"Making GET request to: {url}") response = requests.get(url, headers={"Accept": "application/json"}) response.raise_for_status() data = response.json() logger.info(f"get_publishers_list retrieved {len(data)} publishers") return data except Exception as e: logger.error(f"Error: {e}") return []
- app.py:326-330 (registration)FastMCP tool registration for 'get_legal_publishers', defining the tool name, description, and tags for categorization.@app.tool( name="get_legal_publishers", description="Get list of all legal act publishers (Dziennik Ustaw, Monitor Polski) with their metadata and publication years.", tags={"metadata", "publishers", "reference", "sources"} )