Module: CoaOpScraper

Defined in:
lib/tames.rb,
lib/legacy.rb,
lib/coa_docket_no.rb,
lib/coa_op_scraper.rb

Defined Under Namespace

Modules: Legacy, Tames Classes: CoaDocketNo

Constant Summary collapse

HISTORICAL_THROTTLE =

The Texas appellate websites are sometimes fragile. These sleep intervals should give ample time between requests.

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CURRENT_THROTTLE = 
5
TAMES_COAS =

A court’s placement in one of these two hashes tells you about the webpage format currently used by that court.

[ "01", "03", "04", "05", "06", "09", "11", "12", "14" ]
LEGACY_COAS = 
[ "02", "07", "08", "10", "13" ]
@@check_weekends = 
FALSE

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.parse_coa_opinion_list_at(coa, url) ⇒ Object

returns an array of URLs



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# File 'lib/coa_op_scraper.rb', line 57

def self.parse_coa_opinion_list_at(coa, url)
  self.scrape_one_opinion_list(coa, url) || []
end

.scrape_one_opinion_list(coa, target_date) ⇒ Object

This is the easiest method to use here. Feed it a COA value (in the form “03”, for example) and the date for which you want the results (in the form of a Ruby date object).



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# File 'lib/coa_op_scraper.rb', line 28

def self.scrape_one_opinion_list(coa,target_date)
  doc = self.retrieve_list_for_coa_for_date(coa,target_date)
  if CoaOpScraper::TAMES_COAS[coa]
    CoaOpScraper::Tames.parse_opinion_list(doc)
  elsif CoaOpScraper::LEGACY_COAS[coa]
    CoaOpScraper::Legacy.parse_opinion_list(doc)
  end
end

.urls_for_historical_range(coa, start_date, end_date) ⇒ Object

These methods would be useful to populate a queue of opinion lists to check later.

The #urls_for_historical_range method will, as expected, compute a list of the URLs that are appropriate (excluding weekends by default).

The #parse_coa_opinion_list_at method will take a coa number and a URL and return back a list of the results.



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# File 'lib/coa_op_scraper.rb', line 48

def self.urls_for_historical_range(coa, start_date, end_date)
  result = []
  (start_date .. end_date).each do |target_date|
    next unless @@check_weekends or target_date.weekday?
    result << self.url_for_coa_for_date(coa, target_date)
  end
  result
end