Merge pull request #241 from michaeldepace/main

pa court scraper issue #239
Police-Data-Accessibility-Project · May 21, 2024 · 05bd38b · 05bd38b
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diff --git a/scrapers_library/PA/court_cases/README.md b/scrapers_library/PA/court_cases/README.md
diff --git a/scrapers_library/PA/court_cases/scraper.py b/scrapers_library/PA/court_cases/scraper.py
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+import requests
+import json
+import os
+
+url=os.getenv("PA_COURTS_ENDPOINT")
+headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'} # prevents request from being denied by api
+
+# "MJ-05213-LT-0000011-2021"
+
+def pull_case_json(case_id):
+    resp = requests.get(url + case_id, headers=headers)
+    filename = "./data/" + case_id + ".json"
+
+    with open(filename, 'w') as f:
+        json.dump(resp.json(), f) # save json to local file
+
+#pull_case_json("MJ-09302-TR-0000928-2020")
+#pull_case_json("MJ-06306-TR-0000813-2020")
+#pull_case_json("MJ-51301-TR-0000779-2020")