endomorphosis/legal_scrapers

JusticeDAO Legal Scrapers

Research collectors that download official legislative sources only (national gazettes and official open-data portals). Intended for building reproducible legal-text corpora, not for production legal research products.

Not legal advice. The official gazette of each jurisdiction prevails.

License

AGPL-3.0 for the collector scripts in this repository.

Contents

scrapers/ includes country collectors, EU/EUR-Lex, shared helpers, and archive-fallback utilities. Collectors target official gazettes and official open-data portals only. Cyprus (collect_cy.py) uses the Government Printing Office at mof.gov.cy/gpo; cylaw.org is unofficial and is not included.

Shared helpers

• collector.py, common.py, collect_remaining.py
• archive_fallbacks.py — Wayback Machine and Common Crawl CDX lookups
• probe_cdx.py — CDX probe helper
• collect_blocked_archives.py — archive fallbacks for blocked official hosts
• collect_pt_ro_lt_archives.py — PT/RO/LT Wayback and Common Crawl fallbacks
• collect_spa_playwright.py — Playwright SPA rendering for JS-only official portals

EU and large official corpora

• collect_eurlex.py (EU)
• collect_gii.py (DE, Gesetze im Internet)
• collect_boe.py (ES, Boletín Oficial del Estado)
• collect_bwb.py (NL, Basiswettenbestand)
• collect_legi.py (FR, Légifrance)
• collect_fedlex.py (CH, Fedlex)

EU member-state collectors

• collect_at.py (Austria)
• collect_be.py (Belgium)
• collect_bg.py (Bulgaria)
• collect_cy.py (Cyprus — official GPO / mof.gov.cy only)
• collect_cz.py (Czechia)
• collect_dk.py (Denmark)
• collect_ee.py (Estonia)
• collect_fi.py (Finland)
• collect_gr.py (Greece)
• collect_hr.py (Croatia)
• collect_hu.py (Hungary)
• collect_ie.py (Ireland)
• collect_it.py (Italy)
• collect_lt.py (Lithuania)
• collect_lu.py (Luxembourg)
• collect_lv.py (Latvia)
• collect_mt.py (Malta)
• collect_pl.py (Poland)
• collect_pt.py (Portugal)
• collect_ro.py (Romania)
• collect_se.py (Sweden)
• collect_si.py (Slovenia)
• collect_sk.py (Slovakia)
• collect_egov_laws.py (Japan, e-Gov 法令検索)
• collect_justice_laws.py (Canada, Justice Laws XML)

Mexico and China collectors

• collect_leyes_biblio.py (Mexico, Cámara de Diputados LeyesBiblio)
• collect_npc_flk.py (China, NPC 权威发布 / official HTML)
• fill_cn.py (China, second-pass PDF + Wayback fill)

Archive fallbacks

When a live official host is blocked, incomplete, or JS-only, collectors may use:

• Wayback Machine CDX/capture replay of the official URL
• Common Crawl CDX indexes of the official URL
• Playwright for official single-page applications that do not emit HTML without a browser

Fallbacks still retrieve official gazette or official-portal snapshots only. They do not substitute unofficial aggregators (including cylaw.org).

Additional official collectors

• collect_lom_agc.py (my)

Additional official collectors

• collect_peraturan.py (id)

Additional official collectors

• collect_sso_agc.py (sg)

Disclaimer

These scripts are research tools. They do not produce official consolidations. Not legal advice. The official gazette prevails.

Other official national collectors

• collect_indiacode.py (India, India Code Central Acts)
• collect_knesset_laws.py (Israel, Knesset OData / Reshumot PDFs)
• collect_boe_laws.py (Saudi Arabia, BOE laws.boe.gov.sa — Wayback of official URLs)
• collect_kuwaitalyawm.py (Kuwait, الكويت اليوم category القوانين + e.gov.kw)
• collect_egov_laws.py (Japan, e-Gov 法令検索)
• collect_justice_laws.py (Canada)
• collect_jp.py / collect_ca.py aliases where present
• collect_federal_register.py (Australia, Federal Register of Legislation / FRL; Acts-first, CC BY 4.0)
• collect_pco_legislation.py (New Zealand, PCO / legislation.govt.nz public acts; Wayback of official URLs; no live WAF bypass)