lucas-johnson/courtbot-library

Generic Court Scraper for Courbot system use

Court Scraping utilities

A python library for scraping case information from court systems.

Development Install

1. Create and activate a Python 3.7.3 virtual env
2. git clone git@github.com:codefortulsa/courtbot-library.git
3. cd courtbot-library
4. pip install -e .

Usage

Install with pip install courtbot

Adding a court

• Add your state to courtbot/states/{two letter state abbreviation}
• Add properties to an init.py file in the diretory

Require properties (so far):

• courts: return a list of strings with the names of available courts e.g

  [ ..., 'tulsa', 'wagoner', 'washington', 'washita', 'woods', 'woodward']

• get_case: a function that accepts a case identifier and returns an object

Case Object

The case object requires:
events:  a list of dictionaries which contain a 'date' and 'description'

     {'date': 'Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 9:00 AM',
      'description': 'DISTRICT COURT ARRAIGNMENT'}

Run test scripts

• pytest tests/

or with ipdb:

- `pytest -s tests/`

specify a test:

• pytest -s tests/test_parse.py -k 'test_events'

Deployment steps

1. python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
2. twine upload dist/*