Organize Taiwan laws

This repo aims to make Taiwan laws easy to process by computer geeks. The output includes:

1. Law article in JSON
2. Law change history in JSON
3. Script to create Git repo of laws
4. Progress of law motion in JSON

Law to JSON (and git repo)

Extract law content and change history (修正沿革/立法紀錄.html -> JSON)

For single law

% npm run prepublish && ./node_modules/.bin/lsc law2json.ls --outdir output/law/json data/law/憲法/中華民國憲法

..or all

% npm run prepublish && find data/law -type d -depth 2 -exec ./node_modules/.bin/lsc law2json.ls --outdir output/law/json {} +

Build git commits (JSON -> Markdown -> git)

% (cd output/law && git init)
% for dir in `find output/law/json -type d -depth 2`; do
      ./json2git.py $dir/law_history.json output/law
  done

% git remote add github [email protected]:victorhsieh/tw-law-corpus.git
% git push -f github master
% git push github refs/notes/*

Crawl the source

The source pages are committed so that we can check for updates. But if you need to fetch the source yourself, here is the instruction

0. Update the first link in ./prepare_categories.sh manually

1. http://lis.ly.gov.tw/lgcgi/lglaw -> 分類瀏覽 -> 任意一筆
2. Copy the link in address bar to $PORTAL in prepare_categories.sh

1. Crawls the portal to prepare category links.

% ./prepare_categories.sh  # probably need to update the link manually
% ./fetcher.sh data/file-link.txt

2. Fetch law pages

Fetch a single category

% npm run prepublish && ./node_modules/.bin/lsc prepare_law.ls --cat 憲法 --dir data/law
% ./fetcher.sh data/law/憲法/file-link.tsv

..or fetch every categories

% npm run prepublish
% for cat in data/law/*; do
      ./node_modules/.bin/lsc prepare_law.ls --cat `basename $cat` --dir data/law
      ./fetcher.sh $cat/file-link.tsv
  done

3. Fetch law pages (all revision)

Generate file-link-all-revision.tsv for single category

% npm run prepublish && ./node_modules/.bin/lsc prepare_law_all_revision.ls --cat 憲法 --dir data/law
% ./fetcher.sh -r data/law/憲法/file-link-all-revision.tsv

..or for all categories

% npm run prepublish
% for cat in data/law/*; do
      ./node_modules/.bin/lsc prepare_law_all_revision.ls --cat `basename $cat` --dir data/law
      ./fetcher.sh -r $cat/file-link-all-revision.tsv
  done

Progress of law proposals

Crawling

Currently it's done manually.

0. Open http://lis.ly.gov.tw/lgcgi/ttsweb?@0:0:1:lgmempropg08@@0
1. 選第一個會期、到最後一個, then search
2. click 詳目顯示、依提案日期「遞增」
3. open javascript console
   1. localStorage['page'] = 1
   2. document.querySelector('select[name="_TTS.DISPLAYPAGE"]').options[0].value = 200; document.querySelector('input[name="_TTS.PGTOP"]').value = 200*(localStorage['page']-1)+1; localStorage['page']++; document.querySelector('input[name="_IMG_顯示結果"]').click();
   3. document.querySelector('input[name="_IMG_本頁全部"]').click();
   4. repeat 2 until you got every pages.
   5. rename downloads to data/progress/8/ad-8-$N.txt

Parsing (to JSON)

% ./node_modules/.bin/lsc parse_progress.ls --ad 8 > progress.json

# one record per line for mongodbimport
% ./node_modules/.bin/lsc parse_progress.ls --ad 8 --newline > progress.json