Functionality
The scraper currently scrapes all cases in the first page of the supreme court cases list
scrapy crawl ng
The Database
cases
- url = TextField
url to the summary page of the judgement - name = TextField
full case name - name_abbreviation = CharField `
- suite_no = CharField
- decision_date = DateField
formatted date text - citations = TextField
- court = CharField
currently defaults to "Supreme Court of Nigeria" - full_judgement = TextField
- appellants = TextField
each appellant is in a new line - respondents = TextField
each respondent is in a new line - full_html = TextField
full html of the case page incase you need further parsing
opinions
- case_id = ForeignKeyField
- author = TextField
- text = TextField
ratio_decidendi
- case_id = ForeignKeyField
- matter = CharField
- topic = CharField
- text = TextField
- author_ref = TextField
author & reference
judges
- case_id = ForeignKeyField
- name = TextField
- title = TextField
attorneys
- case_id = ForeignKeyField
- name = TextField
- representing = TextField
either "Appellant(s)" or "Respondent(s)"
Pending Issues
- prefect.io flow
- Self sufficiency with the spider