billimarie/prosecutor-database

[FEATURE] Research & Implementation: Data Sources

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#145 opened on Oct 5, 2020

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Description

Tracking alternative data sources which our project might be able to use. This would solve the issue of having to manually find data. Led by @janel-developer, who discovered the CourtListener api.

Might be helpful to look at scripts we developed several years ago:

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Research direction
Look at the existing CourtListener API integration and the old scraping scripts to understand their structure. Then search for other free data sources like government APIs or open legal data sets that could be used. Discuss with @janel developer for guidance.
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javascript
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data
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3
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Half day
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Active
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