alacorder 81.2.6

Alacorder retrieves case detail PDFs from Alacourt.com and processes them into data tables suitable for research purposes.

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Alacorder

Alacorder collects and processes case detail PDFs into data tables suitable for research purposes.

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Installation

If your device can run Python 3.10+, it can run Alacorder. Use pip to install the command line interface.

• Install Anaconda Distribution to install the latest Python.
• Once your Anaconda environment is configured, open a terminal from Anaconda Navigator and enter pip install -U alacorder to install.

 Usage: alacorder [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

 Alacorder collects case detail PDFs from Alacourt.com and processes them into data tables  
 suitable for research purposes.

╭─ Options ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --version          Show the version and exit.                                            │
│ --help             Show this message and exit.                                           │
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╭─ Commands ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ autofilter      Automatically filter `party_search_results` using crawl-adoc outputs, so │
│                 that cases with mismatching DOBs are removed.                            │
│ autopair        Automatically generate filled pairs template from party search results   │
│                 table with 'Search' and 'Name' columns.                                  │
│ crawl-adoc      Collect full inmates list from ADOC Inmate Search and write to table at  │
│                 `output_path` (.xlsx, .csv, .json, .parquet).                            │
│ fetch-cases     From a queue table with 'Case Number' or 'CaseNumber' column, download   │
│                 case detail PDFs to directory at `output_path`.                          │
│ make-archive    Create case text archive from directory of case detail PDFs.             │
│ make-documents  Make .docx summaries with voting rights information for each unique      │
│                 identifier in `pairs` at `output_dir`.                                   │
│ make-summary    Create voting rights summary grouped by person using a completed         │
│                 name/AIS pairing template (use make-template to create empty template).  │
│ make-table      Create table at `output_path` from archive or directory at `input_path`. │
│ make-template   Create empty pairing template to be used as input for make-summary to    │
│                 create a voting rights summary grouped by person instead of by case.     │
│ party-search    Collect results from Alacourt Party Search into a table at               │
│                 `output_path`. Input `queue_path` table from .xlsx, .csv, .json, or      │
│                 .parquet with columns corresponding to Alacourt Party Search fields:     │
│                 'Name', 'Party Type', 'SSN', 'DOB', 'County', 'Division', 'Case Year',   │
│                 'Filed Before', 'Filed After', 'No Records'.                             │
│ rename-cases    Rename all cases in a directory to full case number. Duplicates will be  │
│                 removed.                                                                 │
│ search-adoc     Search ADOC using queue with 'First Name', 'Last Name', and 'AIS'        │
│                 columns to retrieve sentencing information from ADOC. Record table to    │
│                 `output_path`.                                                           │
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