Finnish Legislation (Finlex) MCP

Search and read Finnish law with your AI agent. Find statutes by keyword and get them as clean, structured text — title, sections (§), dates, and ELI — parsed from Finlex, the official legal database of Finland's Ministry of Justice.

Example: "What does Finland's Data Protection Act say?" → the agent searches Finlex, finds the Tietosuojalaki (2018/1050), and returns the parsed law.

This package is a lightweight, open bridge that connects any MCP client (Claude Desktop, etc.) to the hosted, maintained Finlex MCP server on Apify. The bridge holds no data logic — it forwards your requests to the hosted service, which does the real work (search + Akoma Ntoso parsing) and meters usage to your own Apify account.

Tools

| Tool | What it does | |------|--------------| | search_statutes | Keyword search over statute titles (returns a ready-to-use reference). | | get_statute | One statute parsed into title, sections (§), dates and ELI (in-force version). | | list_statutes | Browse recently issued statutes by year. |

Languages: Finnish (default) and Swedish. Legislation only (case law added when Finlex publishes it as open data).

Setup

1. Get access + an Apify API token

This bridge calls a hosted, paid Actor on Apify. You need your own Apify account and API token:

1. Open the Actor on the Apify Store: https://apify.com/nectia/finlex-mcp
2. Subscribe / rent the Actor (billed per call — pay only for what you use).
3. Copy your token from Apify Console → Settings → Integrations → API token.

2. Add it to your MCP client

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "finlex": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "finlex-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_API_TOKEN": "PASTE_YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart your client. No build step, no other keys.

How it works

Your MCP client  ──stdio──►  finlex-mcp-server (this bridge)  ──HTTPS──►  Hosted Actor on Apify  ──►  Finlex API

The bridge authenticates to the hosted Actor with your APIFY_API_TOKEN and transparently proxies the tools. Your token stays on your machine; Apify meters the calls to your account.

Data & attribution

Data © Ministry of Justice / Finlex, licensed CC BY 4.0. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Finlex or the Ministry of Justice.

License

MIT © Nectia Automation. The bridge code is open source; the hosted Actor is a commercial service.