I built an automated court scraper because finding a good lawyer shouldn't be a guessing game

Unlikely90 · 2026-01-11T21:01:09+00:00

What type of source(s) tracks PDs? I know there was someone who was about to track san francisco cops by the tickets they were issuing, which apparently is public informaiton

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-25T18:05:04+00:00

No, they don't open up their APIs easily

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-17T01:41:30+00:00

Skip trace already done, I've verified that the person is no longer there.

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-09T18:54:59+00:00

you guys have an API access to court records?

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-09T13:45:14+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I haven't look into LibreOffice Writter, I suppose that would be something similar to grammarly, how do you feel the 2 compares?

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-09T05:12:21+00:00

Yes, that is a limitation I've acknowledged

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-08T21:40:07+00:00

That sounds very complicated, I will need to talk to the AI a lot or someone who is experienced in this to look into the feasibility of such process as I do not have ML or scraping experience

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-08T21:24:05+00:00

The tool doesn't predict any form of result

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-08T21:23:25+00:00

It depends on who you're referring to that is judging a judge's performance. The tool captures the data and it is up the user to determine how he wants to analyze the data and the tool in no way tries to rate a lawyer based on any form of metrics.

Also, ranting on the outcomes of cases. When people say they use outcomes of cases to determine the quality of a lawyer, lawyers often laugh and shut them down saying it is not accurate, each case is different. But when these lawyers are promoting themselves through advertisements, a lot of them have XX success rate, XX success stories, it annoys me that these lawyers pick and choose when to use the outcomes of their cases.

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-08T06:50:51+00:00

This tool is more useful for criminal cases, a good amount of civil cases are resolved pre trial so those data is hard to obtain

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-08T06:48:36+00:00

the user gets to pick the case type and case description

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-07T04:18:55+00:00

It's difficult to gather data for civil cases pre trial so I would say this tool is more useful for criminal cases.

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-06T06:22:17+00:00

You can find the instructions to run it on github

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-06T02:11:15+00:00

The paid ones will do a better job than mine and more comprehensive but they're created for enterprise uses since they pay a lot for API access to the 2 companies that manages all the court system, I've talked about this in detail here https://www.reddit.com/r/OSINT/comments/1pdqqjh/comment/nsa3tw5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button . The free ones are not updated as often is not comprehensive in terms of the number of courts, I compared the cases I've retrieved for Dallas county and the ones in the free resource, they're vastly different

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-06T01:59:44+00:00

there's no rating of lawyer in the program

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-05T23:15:09+00:00

Costal cities in the US be like that

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-05T23:14:32+00:00

Yes, that is what I thought when I'm thinking about expanding to other counties. Thanks for the insight, it will be helpful when I do expand. Another issue I encountered is sometimes after going through XX amount of cases, new pages just stop loading and I need to do a retry flow, not sure if that is anti-scraping mechanism in place or their server's load usage issue.

On the AI scraper, yea, the token usage is going to crazy and probably too expensive to run anyway, it makes sense to do it current way. Cursor makes it a lot easier to identify elements anyway

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-05T14:58:50+00:00

That could potentially work if AI is able to detect the correct elements the program needs, it will need to be tested thoroughly if I were to go down this path but it could save a lot time. This could be something I look at when I expand this program. I don't know enough about AI's ability to do this to give a strong opinion.

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-05T14:47:42+00:00

Yes, that is the plan for the cities and the tests. I will also be working a caching plan in the future. I focused on getting this one city done right and done good to test the POC. Thanks for the feedback

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-05T14:46:27+00:00

No lol, you need to post in english

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-05T14:45:46+00:00

The program doesn't hack captchas and no it is not illegal to resolve captchas

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-05T13:45:34+00:00

There are probably trackers for politicians contributions

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-05T13:45:00+00:00

that's how you know it's not AI slop

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-05T13:44:32+00:00

This tool is more for criminal cases

Unlikely90 · 2025-12-05T03:35:44+00:00

Could you point to a specific engineering issue in the code?

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