This is a scraper that runs on Morph. To get started see the documentation

HK Court Lists Archive

What the code do

This repo scrap HK court cases from https://e-services.judiciary.hk/dcl/index.jsp?lang=en

This repositry is a prototype for the one of the projects pitched in the first g0vhk.io Hackathon on 2018-06-23 in Hong Kong. The main document written by project owner, Selina, listed the details in this Hackpad. Please go and read.

The scraped data can be found at https://morph.io/ylchan87/HKCourtList

Files

scraper.py

the scraper, get called by morph.io, makes http request and parse the reply with courtParser.py

courtParser.py

parse the html to get the fields and save to database, as defined by dataModel.py

dataModel.py

the sqlAlchemy data model for the court cases

extractor.py

util to explode a html table to a python list of list (i.e. 2D array)

testTableExtract.py

test script to test extractor.py

About the data model

Event

a row in the court's timetable, the "main" table of the SQL DB

Case

Case no. uniquely identifying a case. A case can have many events, when there's multiple hearings and trials. An event can also deal with multiple cases at the same time.

many-to-many relationship with event

Judge

many-to-many relationship with event

Lawyer

many-to-many relationship with event

Tag

Could be 1. Offence nature of the event (theft, robbery, etc) 2. Procedure type of the event (trial, hearing, mention, summon etc)

many-to-many relationship with event