Mirrulations

A command-line tool for working with dockets from regulations.gov via the Mirrulations dataset.

This tool currently has two commands that wrap two existing scripts:

• mirrulations fetch — Download all data for a specific docket by ID. See documentation.
• mirrulations csv — Reformat comments data as a tabular CSV file. See documentation.

Example usage

# Download Docket CMS-2019-0039 to ./CMS-2019-0039
mirrulations fetch CMS-2019-0039

# Transform comments into a CSV to ./CMS-2019-0039.csv
mirrulations csv CMS-2019-0039/raw-data/comments/

Excluding file types

mirrulations fetch supports a multiple use --exclude flag to exclude certain file types. By default, the following types are downloaded: docket, documents, comments, derived.

For example, to exclude comments and derived and to only include docket and documents:

mirrulations fetch CMS-2019-0039 --exclude comments --exclude derived