import json, urllib.request, urllib.parse, time, os UA = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36"} OUT = "/Users/drjones/astraea-books/.case-verify/snippets" def search(q, court=None, after=None, before=None, n=6): qq = urllib.parse.quote(q) url = f"https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q={qq}&type=o&format=json" if court: url += f"&court={court}" if after: url += f"&filed_after={after}" if before: url += f"&filed_before={before}" for i in range(4): try: req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=UA) with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=40) as r: return json.loads(r.read()) except Exception as e: if i == 3: return {"error": str(e)} time.sleep(5 + i * 5) # (name, court, after, before, queries) CASES = { "Littlefield": ("wash", "1997-01-01", "1997-12-31", ["commingled trace separate community presumption", '"commingling" separate property trace', 'reverse commingling Littlefield']), "Kovacs": ("wash", "1993-01-01", "1993-12-31", ["transmutation joint tenancy separate property", 'donative intent transmutation', 'character acquisition transmutation']), "Chumbley": ("wash", "2003-01-01", "2003-12-31", ['commingling appreciation separate contribution', 'separate funds community funds acquisition', 'tracing formula equity']), "Short": ("wash", "1995-01-01", "1995-12-31", ['transmutation separate property', 'commingling characterization', 'presumption community gift']), "Borghi": ("wash", "2009-01-01", "2009-12-31", ['joint tenancy characterization intent', 'commingling separate funds', 'presumption community property title']), "Elam": ("wash", "1982-01-01", "1982-12-31", ['gift presumption community property', 'clear and convincing separate property', 'characterization acquisition']), "Konzen": ("wash", "1985-01-01", "1985-12-31", ['characterization date of acquisition', 'separate property commingling', 'transmutation agreement']), "Mueller": ("washctapp", "2007-01-01", "2007-12-31", ['commingled trace separate funds', 'clear and satisfactory evidence tracing', 'Littlefield commingling account']), "Glorfield": ("washctapp", "1980-01-01", "1980-12-31", ['transmutation separate property community', 'intent transmutation', 'gift community presumption']), "PearsonMaines": ("washctapp", "1993-01-01", "1993-12-31", ['transmutation separate property intent', 'joint tenancy presumption gift', 'commingling characterization']), "Olivares": ("washctapp", "1993-01-01", "1993-12-31", ['transmutation separate property', 'joint tenancy gift community', 'intent transmutation evidence']), "Sedlock": ("washctapp", "1993-01-01", "1993-12-31", ['transmutation agreement separate community', 'joint title transmutation', 'characterization intent']), "Hadley": ("wash", "1977-01-01", "1977-12-31", ['separate property division award', 'court may not award separate property', 'just and equitable division']), "Schwarz": ("washctapp", "2016-01-01", "2016-12-31", ['equitable lien community funds separate property', 'commingling tracing accounts', 'reimbursement separate property mortgage']), "Kraft": ("wash", "1992-01-01", "1992-12-31", ['separate property division dissolution', 'exceptional circumstances separate property', 'property characterization acquisition']), "Berol": ("wash", "1950-01-01", "1950-12-31", ['deed presumption community property', 'transmutation deed separate', 'gift deed community']), } allout = {} for name, (court, after, before, queries) in CASES.items(): snips = [] for q in queries: d = search(q, court, after, before) if "error" in d: snips.append({"q": q, "err": d["error"]}); continue for res in d.get("results", []): sn = res.get("opinions", [{}])[0].get("snippet", "") if len(sn) > 200: snips.append({"q": q, "case": res.get("caseName"), "date": res.get("dateFiled"), "cit": res.get("citation", [])[:2], "snip": sn}) break time.sleep(2) allout[name] = snips print(f"=== {name}: {len(snips)} snippets") for s in snips: if "err" in s: print(" ERR", s["err"]); continue print(" Q:", s["q"], "|", s["case"], "|", s["date"]) time.sleep(2) json.dump(allout, open(f"{OUT}/harvest2.json", "w"), indent=1) print("saved harvest2.json")