Basic tools for working with the new electronic docket available at the United States Supreme Court.
There are no real docs here, but a brief rundown of each tool is below:
ordergrab
Downloads all orders for a given term.
orderparse
Provides some really horrible PDF parsing that allows you to search orders by section.
docketgrab
Downloads all petitions for dockets after the given number, or all documents for a specific docket.
docketindexer
Parses all docket PDFs that are present on your system and produces unigram and bigram indexes for fast(ish) searches.
docketsearch
Searches docket filings for the query term specified.
In general all tools that download files will be smart and not download files you already have (based on
using a common root directory, which is . by default). Most tools support optionally operating in
parallel for faster processing.
None of this code pretends to be good or efficient.