pyjudilibre 0.5.8

Python client for the JUDILIBRE public API

pyJudilibre

``pyJudilibreis a small Python wrapper to query theJUDILIBRE` API from the French Supreme Court, la Cour de cassation. `JUDILIBRE` aims to give access to judiciary decisions.

01 - Requirements

In order to use this library, you need credentials from https://piste.gouv.fr/. You can find tutorials here on how to get them.

02 - Installation

To install pyJudilibre, you can use pip:

pip install pyjudilibre

It has three different extras:

• [dev] with development libraries
• [test] with test libraries
• [build] with build libraries

03 - Usage

The main class of this library is JudilibreClient. It serves as an interface for the whole API. It has the following methods:

• healthcheck: returns the availability of the API
• decision: returns a decision based on its ID
• search: returns a list of search results based on a plain text search
• export: returns a list of decisions
• stats: returns aggregated data
• transaction_history: @TODO
• scan: @TODO

03.1 - Client initialization

To instantiate JudilibreClient, you need to pass the URL of the API and the key of the API:

from pyjudilibre import JudilibreClient

client = JudilibreClient(
    judilibre_api_url=JUDILIBRE_API_URL,
    judilibre_api_url=JUDILIBRE_API_KEY,
)

03.2 - Healthcheck

The .healthcheck method queries the GET /healthcheck. This method will return True if the API is available or False if not.

healthcheck: bool = client.healthcheck()
print(healthchek)

03.3 - Decision

The main endpoint of the API, GET /decision is available through the .decision method. It returns a JudilibreDecision if a decision ID is provided:

DECISION_ID = "5fca9e9f7fceed9498daf2cf"

decision = client.decision(decision_id=DECISION_ID)
print(
    decision.jurisdiction,
    decision.date_decision,
)

03.4 - Stats

03.5 - Search

03.6 - Export

04 - Development

To work on the library, you can use a virtual environment and install all the extras:

git clone https://github.com/pauldechorgnat/pyJudilibre.git
cd pyJudilibre

python3 -m venv venv
pip install .[dev,test,build]