juris 0.2.0

Swedish legal data collection tool

juris

Swedish Parliament

Swedish Government

Courts

Authorities

EU Law

A command-line tool for collecting and normalizing Swedish legal documents from official government sources.

Sweden has a wealth of public legal information — laws, government bills, public inquiries, court decisions — scattered across multiple government websites and APIs with inconsistent formats. juris collects documents from these sources, normalizes them into a unified format, and saves them as browsable, version-controlled files (Markdown + JSON). Think of it as a git-native open database for Swedish law.

Features

• 8 data sources covering Swedish parliament, government, courts, authorities, and EU law
• 21 document types from bills and motions to court decisions and EU regulations
• Dual output format — Markdown (human-readable, browsable on GitHub) and JSON (machine-parseable)
• Incremental collection with state tracking to resume where you left off
• Async I/O with built-in rate limiting to respect source servers
• PDF text extraction from document attachments
• Date and session filtering for targeted collection

Data sources

Source	Method	Document types
Riksdagen	JSON API	prop, sou, mot, bet, dir, skr, sfs
Regeringen.se	Web scraping	prop, sou, ds, lagr, dir, skr
Domstolsverket	REST API	nja, ad, hfd, mod, pmod
JO	Web scraping	jo
JK	Web scraping	jk
Lagrummet	Web scraping	foreskrift
EUR-Lex	SPARQL	eu_reg, eu_dir
CURIA / HUDOC	SPARQL / JSON API	cjeu, echr

Document types

Swedish Parliament

Type	Swedish	English
prop	Propositioner	Government bills
mot	Motioner	Parliamentary motions
bet	Betänkanden	Committee reports
skr	Skrivelser	Government communications

Swedish Government

Type	Swedish	English
sou	Statens offentliga utredningar	State public inquiries
ds	Departementsserien	Department series
dir	Kommittédirektiv	Committee directives
lagr	Lagrådsremisser	Legal council referrals
sfs	Svensk författningssamling	Swedish Code of Statutes

Courts

Type	Swedish	English
nja	Nytt Juridiskt Arkiv	Supreme Court precedents
ad	Arbetsdomstolens domar	Labour Court decisions
hfd	Högsta förvaltningsdomstolens årsbok	Supreme Administrative Court
mod	Mark- och miljööverdomstolen	Land and Environment Court
pmod	Patent- och marknadsöverdomstolen	Patent and Market Court

Authorities

Type	Swedish	English
jo	Justitieombudsmannens beslut	Parliamentary Ombudsman decisions
jk	Justitiekanslerns beslut	Chancellor of Justice decisions
foreskrift	Myndighetsföreskrifter	Agency regulations

EU law

Type	Swedish	English
eu_reg	EU-förordningar	EU regulations
eu_dir	EU-direktiv	EU directives
cjeu	EU-domstolens domar	Court of Justice of the EU
echr	Europadomstolens domar	European Court of Human Rights

Installation

pip install -e .

Requires Python 3.11 or later.

Usage

# Collect government bills from the 2024/25 parliamentary session
juris collect riksdagen --type prop --session 2024/25

# Collect SOU reports published since a specific date
juris collect riksdagen --type sou --since 2024-01-01

# Collect from the government website with a limit
juris collect regeringen --type prop --session 2024/25 --limit 5

# Collect Supreme Court decisions
juris collect domstol --type nja --since 2024-01-01

# Collect agency regulations
juris collect lagrummet --type foreskrift --limit 10

# Collect EU regulations
juris collect eur_lex --type eu_reg --since 2024-01-01

# Check collection progress
juris status

# Count collected documents
juris stats

Options

Option	Description
--type TYPE	Document type to collect (required)
--session SESSION	Parliamentary session, e.g. 2024/25
--since DATE	Collect documents from this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
--until DATE	Collect documents until this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
--limit N	Maximum number of documents to collect
--skip-existing / --no-skip-existing	Skip already collected documents (default: on)
--skip-content / --no-skip-content	Metadata only, skip full text (default: off)
--data-dir PATH	Output directory (default: data)
-v, --verbose	Enable debug logging

Output format

Each document is saved in two formats:

Markdown (human-readable, browsable on GitHub):

---
doc_id: "prop-2024/25:208"
doc_type: prop
title: "Ett mer heltäckande straffansvar vid angrepp på företagshemligheter"
date: "2025-09-08"
source: riksdagen
department: Justitiedepartementet
session: "2024/25"
source_url: "https://..."
---

# Ett mer heltäckande straffansvar vid angrepp på företagshemligheter

Proposition 2024/25:208

[full text...]

JSON (machine-readable, full metadata):

{
  "doc_id": "prop-2024/25:208",
  "doc_type": "prop",
  "title": "Ett mer heltäckande straffansvar...",
  "date": "2025-09-08",
  "text": "...",
  "source": "riksdagen",
  "attachments": [...]
}

Documents are organized by type and session:

data/
├── prop/
│   └── 2024-25/
│       ├── prop-2024-25_208.json
│       └── prop-2024-25_208.md
├── sou/
│   └── 2024/
├── nja/
└── .state/

Project structure

src/juris/
├── cli.py              # Command-line interface (Click)
├── models.py           # Document data models (Pydantic)
├── storage.py          # File storage (JSON + Markdown)
├── state.py            # Incremental collection state
├── pdf.py              # PDF text extraction
├── utils.py            # Shared utilities
└── collectors/
    ├── base.py         # Abstract base collector
    ├── riksdagen.py    # Riksdagen API
    ├── regeringen.py   # Regeringen.se scraper
    ├── domstol.py      # Court decisions API
    ├── jo_jk.py        # JO/JK decisions
    ├── lagrummet.py    # Agency regulations
    ├── eurlex.py       # EUR-Lex SPARQL
    ├── curia.py        # CJEU SPARQL
    └── hudoc.py        # ECtHR API

Development

# Install with dev dependencies
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Lint
ruff check src/

# Type check
mypy src/

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, coding standards, and how to add new collectors.

Please report security vulnerabilities via GitHub's private reporting — see SECURITY.md for details.

This project follows the Contributor Covenant v2.1.

License

MIT