Legal Data

A package for crawling Australian legal data from legislation.com.au and austlii.edu.au with cache support.

Please be respectful of server host resources by using a reasonable crawl delay, honouring robots.txt and crawling at times when the server load is lighter.

Install from PyPi

pip install legaldata

legislation.com.au example

This example will crawl Commonwealth Acts from legislation.com.au and copy files (docx, pdf, zip) to the save path.

from legaldata.legislation.crawler import ActCrawler

crawler = ActCrawler()
save_path = "./legislation.com.au/"

for index_url in crawler.get_index_pages():
    acts = crawler.get_acts_from_index(index_url, save_path)

austlii.edu.au example

This example will crawl Commonwealth Acts from austlii.edu.au/ and copy files (rtf, txt) to the save path.

from legaldata.austlii.crawler import ActCrawler

crawler = ActCrawler()
save_path = "./austlii.edu.au/"

for index_url in crawler.get_index_pages():
    acts = crawler.get_acts_from_index(index_url, save_path)

Legal Data is distributed under the MIT license.