endomorphosis/ipfs_spain_municipal_laws

Spain municipal laws (BOP Barcelona, pack 1)

Pack 1 holds recent announcements from the Butlletí Oficial de la Província de Barcelona (bop.diba.cat), published by the Diputació de Barcelona. Each row is one anuncio with its full text extracted from the official PDF. Other provincial bulletins may join later packs.

Contents

	count
laws (anuncios with a text layer)	2,332
articles	7,196
scanned PDFs skipped (no OCR)	0
fetch errors	0
laws mapped to an INE municipality	2,317
laws with a null municipality (issuer not a municipality, or unmappable)	15
municipalities (INE codes)	271
municipalities with a confirmed Wikidata QID	0
private email addresses redacted	1 in 1 law(s)
publication dates	2026-09-09 to 2026-10-08 (30 calendar days walked)

Source, credit and licence

• Source: Butlletí Oficial de la Província de Barcelona (BOPB), https://bop.diba.cat, published by the Diputació de Barcelona. All text comes from that site; credit bop.diba.cat when reusing it.
• Window: publication dates 2026-09-09 to 2026-10-08 (30 calendar days).
• Licence: no open licence was found for the bulletin. Under Spanish law, legal and regulatory texts and official acts are not protected by copyright (Real Decreto Legislativo 1/1996, Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, art. 13). Some anuncios may contain other material. The dataset is marked license: other; check the bulletin's own terms before reuse.
• Authority: the official BOPB publication is the authentic version. Extracted text may contain errors.

Privacy: email redaction

Private webmail addresses (gmail, hotmail, outlook, live, yahoo, icloud, aol, proton, gmx, yandex, telefonica.net, terra.es and similar; full list in scrapers/es_bop_lib.py, WEBMAIL_DOMAINS) are replaced with [email redacted] in law titles and texts, and so in article texts. Council, Diputació and other institutional addresses (.cat, .es, .gov, council domains) are kept as published. The redaction is a deterministic pack step; text_sha256 in metadata_json is the hash of the redacted text. This pack: 1 address(es) in 1 law(s); the manifest lists the law ids, domains and address hashes (not the addresses).

Municipalities

Municipality names and codes come from the official INE list (INE, Relación de municipios y sus códigos por provincias, version 2026, https://www.ine.es/daco/daco42/codmun/diccionario26.xlsx, sha256 07f8e8d64eba73fe9d425196fe82f4e09a9886a287abd650e88ca8d98dd49052), province 08. The issuer (Ajuntament de X, including its dependent bodies Ajuntament de X. Institut ...) is matched to the INE name ignoring case, accents and leading articles. municipality_name is the INE name with its article moved to the front (INE Masnou, El -> El Masnou), bop_ine_code is the 5-digit INE code and municipality_id is es-ine-<code>. Rows whose issuer is not a municipality, or cannot be matched, have null municipality fields. Spelling variants merged: 1; parsed names corrected: 20; unmapped issuers: 1 (listed in the manifest).

Source and method

• Daily list: GET https://bop.diba.cat/sumario-del-dia/YYYY-MM-DD (a PDF that links every anuncio).
• Text: GET https://bop.diba.cat/anuncio/descargar-pdf/{id}, extracted with pdftotext -layout.
• Not requested: query URLs, /anteriors/, /anunci/veure-pdf/, /anunci/descarrega-pdf/ (robots.txt).
• robots.txt checked fail-closed before every request; Crawl-delay 10 s; one worker.
• A PDF without a usable text layer is counted as scanned and left out. There is no OCR.
• Stop reason: window (limits: 30 calendar days, 2,500 anuncios, 250 MB of text).

Columns

Column names, types and order follow the other municipal packs (ipfs_latvia_municipal_laws, ipfs_andorra_municipal_laws): the 19 national law columns, then municipality_id, municipality_name, municipality_qid, issuer, this source's extras, then act_type, act_date, national_law_id. Articles: the 9 national columns, the 3 municipality columns, bop_province, national_law_id.

• issuer as printed; extras bop_province, bop_publisher, bop_anuncio_id, bop_register (CVE), bop_publication_date, bop_ine_code.
• act_type: document type from the PDF head (ANUNCI, EDICTE, ...) or the title's first word; Spanish forms use the Catalan label (anuncio -> anunci, edicto -> edicte). Null when unclear. Counts: anunci 1,658, edicte 558, null 93, resolució 14, decret 6, ordenança 1, ban 1, acord 1.
• act_date: first clear date in the text head, else blank.
• national_law_id: null. These rows were collected directly from the provincial bulletin, not derived from a national pack.
• municipality_qid: null in this pack (no Wikidata match was confirmed).

Largest municipalities

municipality	INE	laws
Vilanova i la Geltrú	08307	136
Barcelona	08019	131
Vilassar de Dalt	08214	127
Vilassar de Mar	08219	60
Sabadell	08187	38
Granollers	08096	27
Mataró	08121	25
Berga	08022	24
Rubí	08184	24
Badalona	08015	23
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat	08101	23
El Masnou	08118	21
Caldes de Montbui	08033	20
Manresa	08113	20
Montornès del Vallès	08136	20
Terrassa	08279	20
El Prat de Llobregat	08169	19
Santa Coloma de Gramenet	08245	19
Vilobí del Penedès	08304	19
Arenys de Mar	08006	18
Castellar del Vallès	08051	18
Sant Cugat del Vallès	08205	18
Castelldefels	08056	17
Sant Sadurní d'Anoia	08240	17
Súria	08274	17

The full table (271 municipalities) is in manifests/pack1_readme_rows.json.

Caveats

• The rows are announcements: ordinances and regulations, but also budgets, staff calls, tenders and notices.
• Article splitting follows Article N / Artículo N headings. Text without them is one record.
• Text comes from the PDF text layer. Layout spacing and page furniture are kept as extracted.
• Official publications. This is not legal advice.

Files

file	bytes	rows	sha256
data/laws-00001.parquet	9,072,621	2,332	16c8b5ab1b0389ff88542ff970d5f7683842d93743b0e425eee8b1d2e213c286
data/articles-00001.parquet	8,485,860	7,196	240f75ee8e9da97328eb36485ed1445812ce88546fd04c480296d6b1c8232790

Code: scrapers/ (scrapers/code.json = manifests/batch1_code.json). Checksums: manifests/pack1_SHA256SUMS.

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Municipal tranche 1 (added 2026-10-13) — BORM (Murcia) + BOCM (Madrid)

Alongside the pack-1 snapshot above, this dataset now carries per-municipio municipal-law files in the shared 19-column world_municipal schema (row = one article of an ordenanza/reglamento, jurisdiction_id = 5-digit INE code), at:

data/{INE}_html.parquet

Window harvested: 2024-10-06 → 2026-10-12 (aprobación definitiva / ordenanza-reglamento acts only; fail-closed attribution + ≥2-article gates).

• Región de Murcia (BORM): complete — 45/45 municipios processed. 41 published, 207 acts, 4,925 rows. Four municipios have no qualifying act in the window (verified by full enumeration): Albudeite (30004), Blanca (30011), Pliego (30032), Totana (30039).
• Comunidad de Madrid (BOCM): in progress — published municipio by municipio as validated; progress and the full per-municipio ledger are in the campaign report (spain_campaign_tranche1_2026-10-12.md, world municipal-law program, goal 16f788ee16e8).

The pack-1 files (data/laws-00001.parquet, data/articles-00001.parquet, manifests/, scrapers/) are a separate earlier snapshot and are unaffected by this tranche.