{"id":98455,"title":"Parsagon: Universal API for Regulatory Data","tagline":"Programmatic access to legislation, regulations, and more across 70+ countries","body":"**TL;DR If you're scraping legislation, regulations, or other government publications, we provide a simpler option: a daily-updated dataset across 70+ countries, available via API. Check it out here: [https://parsagon.io/solutions/api](https://parsagon.io/solutions/api)**\n\nHi YC! We've built a global database of legislation, regulations, and other government publications. It updates daily and currently covers 70+ countries.\n\nWe originally built this for a handful of enterprise policy monitoring workflows, but we keep meeting founders who need reliable regulatory data for very different products/verticals (e.g., automating compliance workflows). Rather than trying to build every vertical ourselves, we're opening the dataset via API so you can build on top of it.\n\n**What It Looks Like**\n\nThe API is pretty simple: give a data category, and get a list of documents back:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=98455\u0026key=user_uploads/145104/f67f65dd-772a-4bfd-b1ee-a982b71afea4)\n\nYou can search for documents with date ranges and search queries as well:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=98455\u0026key=user_uploads/145104/c4c17ef5-5dfc-4d52-a468-33c3763099b3)\n\nTo see more examples, check out our docs: \u003chttps://docs.parsagon.io/api-reference/introduction\u003e\n\n**What's Different About Parsagon**\n\nWe've seen a few solutions attempt to provide global regulatory/policy data, but they often are far from comprehensive. They often only include data for specific verticals/workflows, lack data for “smaller” jurisdictions, or just don't work as advertised (one of our customers said one provider only had half their data available via API - the other half was sent to them as excel spreadsheets of new regulations manually put together by humans each week).\n\nParsagon is built on AI research that generates and maintains data pipelines for government sources, which lets us scale coverage faster and keep it current.\n\nIf you need a source/jurisdiction we don’t have yet, just request it! We can usually add new coverage quickly. As one example, when a Global 500 tech company asked for \\~20 additional countries, we added them within two weeks.\n\n**Who Uses Our Data**\n\nParsagon helps Global 500 teams track new legislation, regulations, and policy developments. Examples:\n\n* A streaming platform tracks media/broadcasting rules in \\~60 countries\n* Multiple pharma companies track healthcare policy across 20+ countries\n* A major airline tracks policy developments across the EU\n\nIf you’re building anything that needs regulatory context (or you want to expand your existing product into more jurisdictions), we’d love to chat! You can email us at [**founders@parsagon.io**](mailto:founders@parsagon.io) or sign up at [**https://parsagon.io/solutions/api**](https://parsagon.io/solutions/api)","slug":"Pbz-parsagon-universal-api-for-regulatory-data","created_at":"2026-03-04T18:02:22.640Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T05:31:57.255Z","total_vote_count":17,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pbz-parsagon-universal-api-for-regulatory-data","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":22832,"name":"Parsagon","slug":"parsagon","url":"https://parsagon.io","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d7aefca6f08e98bcb987bd108cb1bbe99254dd91.png","batch":"Winter 2021","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Monitoring","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/22832"}}