Update the pacer_url property on PACER documents to use show_case_doc URLs #774
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PACER has a way of taking a document number and case number and getting a doc1 URL in response. This code lands an API to use that system as carefully as possible. freelawproject/courtlistener#774
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pacer_doc_ids are available via a link we recently discovered called show_case_doc. The input for the link is the document number, attachment number, and case number, and in return it gives you the pacer_doc_id. The code in this commit sets us up to get about 3.5M of those IDs that we're currently missing. Partially addresses #774
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OK, there's a mega scrape now happening to get the Any item that lacks a pacer_doc_id is now updated to have a better URL (this works even on bankruptcy courts, it's just that the bankruptcy courts don't do the nice, scrapable redirection we get in normal district courts). |
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Two things here, per @johnhawkinson's discovery in freelawproject/recap#214, we a have a way of looking up a
doc1ID from a document number/attachment_number/case_number triplet.We can use this to:
Update every document we currently have to add the doc1 ID. This will be a marvelous improvement for the historical data before the
doc1's were prevalent.Tweak the
pacer_urlproperty so that if we don't have thepacer_doc_idvalue, we can take the user directly to the document URL instead of taking them to the docket, as we do presently.2 will be easy. 1 will take a bit of work, but should be fairly easy too.
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