opinions is a small Web application that watches the Supreme Court of the United States website for new opinions, downloads the PDFs for each decision and looks for external URLs to use as seeds for web archiving. The NYTimes story and study brought attention to the fact that these external links are important for the interpretation of the decisions of the SCOTUS.
These instructions should get you going using sqlite as the database:
- sudo apt-get install python python-pip virtualenvwrapper
- mkvirtualenv opinions
- pip install -r requirements.txt
- python test.py
- python opinions.py # starts the webapp on http://localhost:5000
- python crawl.py # starts up the crawl daemon
You will see a Procfile is included for running on Heroku.
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