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Implement `mont` backscraper

Open grossir opened this issue 1 year ago • 6 comments

Will be needed to complete parent issue

grossir avatar Mar 03 '25 17:03 grossir

After reviewing in detail the scraper and the source from which the opinions are obtained, it is not possible to implement the backscraper at the moment since there is no way to filter the opinions by filling date, only the latest published opinions can be obtained

quevon24 avatar May 08 '25 01:05 quevon24

For reference, the link to "Montana Court Opinions" in this page https://courts.mt.gov/Library/mr/ is not working as of now.

This site provides copies of opinions and briefs dating back to the 1980s.

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grossir avatar May 08 '25 14:05 grossir

I checked the "Montana Court Opinions" on this page again https://courts.mt.gov/Library/mr/ and it still doesn't work.

Luis-manzur avatar May 26 '25 15:05 Luis-manzur

I emailed the court today see if

http://searchcourts.mt.gov and https://courts.mt.gov/Library/mr/

are permanently down or perhaps they will be recovered. We should wait to hear back before we move into a time sucking process. @Luis-manzur

flooie avatar May 28 '25 18:05 flooie

this seems impossible after discussion with the law librarians.

flooie avatar Jun 16 '25 18:06 flooie

this was need to patch the gaps from error pages that were deleted; but we have the case names, dates and URLs logged here; so we could implement extract_from_text to get the missing docket number, and that way get the minimal information we need to create the objects needed

grossir avatar Jun 16 '25 19:06 grossir

Only the Daily Orders page remains: https://juddocumentservice.mt.gov/getDailyOrders, and this one too: https://juddocumentservice.mt.gov/

This last one doesn't seem to be working correctly, none of the filters are returning results. I'll try again in a few days, maybe it can be used to backscrape the site.

quevon24 avatar Nov 11 '25 19:11 quevon24