Directory of trial court judges in New York
A scraper to collect judge names from https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/judicialdirectory/JudicialDirectory. Hopefully will also collect assignments and other information in the future.
If you want to help, please fork and submit a pull request!
- Python 3.x
- Selenium for Python and Beautiful Soup
- Geckodriver (This Stack Overflow answer has a good overview of how to install on Windows and Unix systems)
- Write access on your computer and familiarity with how to use terminal or Command Prompt.
You will need to download this repo. You can either clone it onto your computer, or download as a zip file.
In a terminal or Command Prompt session, navigate to the folder and run python scraper.py.
- Scrape individual judge pages
- Parse individual judge pages