TX Dallas County Felony and Misdemeanor Courts Parser

This is a Python package for parsing HTML pages retrieved from the Texas Dallas County Felony and Misdemeanor Courts Case Information. Since the county website strictly monitors server activity, this package is meant to be used only after the user has collected HTML files for their use. Put differently, I will not be sharing any code that can be used to collect these raw HTML files.

Output

The dallasparser package will generate a maximum of 15 .xlsx files for each data table found from the county website:

Table Name	Output
Appeals	appeals.xlsx
Bonds	bonds.xlsx
Bond COMMENTS	bond_comments.xlsx
Charges	charges.xlsx
Competency Data	competency_data.xlsx
Dispositions	dispositions.xlsx
General Comments	general_comments.xlsx
General Comments WS Date	general_comments_ws_date.xlsx
Judicial Information	judicial_information.xlsx
Motions	motions.xlsx
Names	names.xlsx
Payments	payments.xlsx
Probation Revocation	probation_revocation.xlsx
Reduced/Enhanced Charges	reduced_enhanced_charges.xlsx
Sets and Passes	sets_and_passes.xlsx

Installation

Source

$ git clone https://github.com/jaycatsby/tx_dallas_court_parser.git
$ cd tx_dallas_court_parser
$ python setup.py install

PyPI

$ pip install dallasparser

Usage

A. CLI

$ dallasparser [-h] [-i INPUT] [-o OUTPUT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i INPUT, --input INPUT
                        absolute path of HTML folder
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        absolute path of XLSX output files

B. Module

from dallasparser.parser import TXDallasParser
parser = TXDallasParser(html_path, xlsx_path)
parser.run()

Contributions

Have an idea to make it better? Go ahead! I will be happy to see a pull request from you! 😊

While creating a PR, please update the Contributor(s) section below as well.

Contributor(s)

Jay C. @ Squalo Dev LLC