Rhode Island laws-bot

This goal of this project is to create a web scraper to access the RI General Statutes (webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/Statutes/) and convert the HTML into structured data files for future use and analysis.

Usage

In the project folder, run scrapy crawl laws -o <output_file>.json.

Work in progress

This scraper is a work in progress. Next steps on the TODO list:

• Implement ItemPipelines to clean up the scraped data.
• Finalize Section fields to align with other standard legal code formats.

Other information

Technologies Used

• scrapy (https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/index.html) - Python web crawler package used for the project. This repository was created using the scrapy startproject command.