web scraper for Clark County Court data

This python scraper is used in Li and Oswald (2015) to collect data from Clark County Courts.

Please observe the license file.

this repo has a python webscraper that uses

• BeautifulSoup to parse the html
• Selenium for python to navigate the website, which is javascript and AJAX dependent. you need to click on stuff and select radio buttons and dropdown menues.

SO posts I found useful:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/989872/how-do-i-draw-out-specific-data-from-an-opened-url-in-python-using-urllib2/989920#989920
• how to scrape an html table: http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/60769/scrape-an-html-table-with-python
• many more...