rechtspraak-citations-extractor 1.1.0

Library for extracting rechtspraak citations for provided ECLIs

Rechtspraak citations

This library contains a function that aqcuires citation data for Rechtspraak cases using the LIDO.

Version

Python 3.9

Contributors

Piotr Lewandowski

shashankmc

gijsvd

How to install?

pip install rechtspraak_citations_extractor

What are the functions?

Rechtspraak Citations Extractor

1. get_citations
Gets all the data about case law citing/being cited and the legislations cited from the cases in passed on DataFrame of case metadata. Requires a valid DataFrame object with a column titled 'ecli'. Returns the same Dataframe object, with 3 additional columns containing JSON strings of citation information.

What are the parameters?

1. get_citations(dataframe = None, username = '', password = '', threads = 2)
Parameters:
• dataframe: Pandas DataFrame object, required
A Dataframe object, which must have a column titled 'ecli'. The code extracts citations for each separate ECLI in the column. A Dataframe with Rechtspraak data can be aqcuired via the rechtspraak extractor - https://pypi.org/project/rechtspraak-extractor
Default: None
• username: string, required, default ''
The username that together with the password can be used to log into LIDO.
• password: string, required, default ''
The password that together with the username can be used to log into LIDO.
• threads: int, optional, default 1
Option for multi-threading of LiDO requests - not recommended to go above 2, as LiDO breaks connections when overwhelmed.

Examples

import rechtspraak_extractor as rex
import rechtspraak_citations_extractor as rex_citations
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# To get the rechtspraak data in a dataframe:
df = rex.get_rechtspraak(max_ecli=100, sd='2022-08-01', save_file='y')  # Gets 100 ECLIs from 1st August 2022
df = get_rechtspraak_metadata(save_file='n',dataframe=df)
# To get the citations:
df_with_citaitons = rex_citations.get_citations(df,'username','password')

License

Previously under the MIT License, as of 28/10/2022 this work is licensed under a Apache License, Version 2.0.

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