oscn 0.0.0.32

Oklahoma State Courts Network case parsing utilities

OSCN utilities

A python library for scraping case information from the Oklahoma State Courts Network.

Contents

oscn > Python package source to provide an api for retrieving and parsing case records.

scripts > Python scripts showing use of the oscn package

• example.py: demostrates use of the request Case and Caselist
• retrieve-counts.py: saves a list of all counts for a list of counties and years
• find-counts.py: saves a list of counts passing a test for a list of counties and years
• soup_test.py: a stub for testing parsing attempts using BeautifulSoup
• parse_test.py: a stub for developing using saved examples

OSCN package

oscn

• counties: Returns a list of counties.

oscn.request

• Case: Returns a single case.
• CaseList: Returns an iterator for retrieving cases for a county and year.

CaseLists can be filtered using .find(). See scripts/example.py for details

oscn.parse

Parsers accept the html of an OSCN case page and return python objects.

• filed: returns a string of the filing date (e.g. 12/25/2017)
• closed: returns a string of the date the case was closed. Return None if not closed.
• counts: returns of list of count dicts found in a case. Values include 'description' of the counta and 'disposed' if available.
• judge: returns a string of the judge's name
• parties: returns a list of objects that look like this: {'name': 'Some Name', 'type': 'Description'}
• docket: returns a list of rows in a docket
• events: returns a list of rows in the event table
• attorneys: returns a list of strings found in the attorney table
• issues: returns a list of dicts with issue information. Includes a 'dispositions' key with a list of dicts with disposition details.

oscn.find (experimental)

These functions use parse results to determine additional properties.

• pleas: returns a list of docket minutes containing pleas
• sentence: returns a list of docket minutes containing sentences

Development Install

1. Create and activate a Python 3.6 virtual env
2. git clone [e-mail]:codefortulsa/oscn.git
3. cd oscn
4. pip install -e .

Usage

Install with pip install oscn

Script example:

import oscn

Request a single case:

oscn.request.Case(county='tulsa', year='2018', number=84)

or request a list of cases to iterate:

oscn.request.CaseList(county='adair', year='2016')

Run test scripts

• python scripts/{file.py}

Deployment steps

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