This project is part of a workflow to extract a structured data representation of statutes and annotations from the raw .rtf files that make up state code releases.
This project started as a fork of the UniCourt beautiful state codes repo that generates nicer HTML versions of state laws.
Currently this code only supports the statue of Kentucky. Other states that were covered by the UniCourt project are still represented in this codebase, but the files have not been updated.
The parser also only currently supports title rtf files. Files for the constitution, full text ag opinions, new sections, or other non-title rtf files should be removed from the batch of files to be processed.
This project does not yet fully parse all title files correctly and is still a work in progress. If you would like to contribute, please open a pull request. Extraction of data from Title VIII has been the first priority during development.
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Create new folder named transforms
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Based on the state create a folder called transforms/{state_name}
3.Inside the above folder based on the release create a folder oc{stateCode}/{release} which will contain raw files (raw files are textutil output files)
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Example folder structure:
``` project │ README.md │ requirements.txt │ └───html_parser │ │ file011.py │ │ file012.py | └───transforms │ └───ky │ └───ocky │ └───raw │ title_01.html -
Python3.8 should be installed in development environment to run this project
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run pip install -r requirements.txt to install all the packages required
Usage: python html_parser/html_parse_runner.py
[--state_key (KY)]
[--release_label (Release-75)]
[--release_date (DD-MM-YYYY)]
[--input_file_name (gov.ky.ocga.title.01.html) This is an optional argument,
if this argument is not passed all the files for provided release label will be parsed]