#huey - An API for Louisiana Statutory Law
This project, huey, hopes to make Louisiana statutory law more readily accessible to developers. It is inspired by Eric Mill's work on the [U.S. Code] (https://github.com/unitedstates). Although the State of Louisiana makes its laws available on the internet, it's now impossible for developers to access these laws in a programmatic way.
The scraper scans the Louisiana Legislature Site and adds the laws to a mysql or sqlite db. There is still some polishing to do on this (removing duplicates, for example), but the scraper generally works well.
Usage:
php scraper/scraper.php
This API is still very much in beta. It takes requests in the following format and returns json:
http://hueylaw.org/api/[book]/[title]/[section]/[subsection]/[searchterm]
Sample Requests:
http://hueylaw.org/api/ce/404 //returns Code of Evidence Art. 404
http://hueylaw.org/api/rs/15/529/1 //returns La. RS. 15:529.1
http://hueylaw.org/api/rs/14/homicide //searches title 14 for the word 'homicide'
http://hueylaw.org/api/succession //searches entire db for 'succession'
The project is dedicated to this guy:
One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it. -- Huey P. Long
Copyright (c) 2012 Judson Mitchell, Three Pipe Problem, LLC
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