| """Italy Corte di Cassazione (civil sections) via the public SentenzeWeb Solr API. |
| |
| Endpoint and field schema discovered via the worldwidelaw/legal-sources project |
| (AGPL-3.0). We reimplement the scraping based on this API. |
| |
| The SentenzeWeb index is a rolling window. As of probing in 2026 the earliest |
| deposit-date with civil decisions (`kind:snciv`) is 2021. |
| """ |
|
|
| import html |
| import logging |
| import re |
| from datetime import date, datetime |
| from typing import Any |
| from urllib.parse import urlencode |
|
|
| import requests |
| import urllib3 |
|
|
| from legex.models.base import Case |
| from legex.scrapers.base import BaseScraper |
|
|
| log = logging.getLogger(__name__) |
|
|
| SOLR_URL = ( |
| "https://www.italgiure.giustizia.it/sncass/isapi/hc.dll/sn.solr/sn-collection/select" |
| ) |
| PAGE_SIZE = 100 |
| FIELDS = ( |
| "id,ocr,kind,numdec,anno,datdep,datdec,tipoprov,szdec," |
| "presidente,relatore,materia,filename" |
| ) |
| urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning) |
|
|
|
|
| def _first(value: Any) -> str: |
| if isinstance(value, list): |
| return str(value[0]) if value else "" |
| return str(value) if value else "" |
|
|
|
|
| def _parse_solr_date(value: Any) -> date | None: |
| text = _first(value) |
| if not text or len(text) < 8: |
| return None |
| try: |
| if "-" in text: |
| return date.fromisoformat(text[:10]) |
| return datetime.strptime(text[:8], "%Y%m%d").date() |
| except ValueError: |
| return None |
|
|
|
|
| _OCR_WS = re.compile(r"[ \t]+") |
| _OCR_BLANK = re.compile(r"\n{3,}") |
|
|
|
|
| def _clean_ocr(text: str) -> str: |
| if not text: |
| return "" |
| text = html.unescape(text) |
| text = _OCR_WS.sub(" ", text) |
| text = _OCR_BLANK.sub("\n\n", text) |
| return text.strip() |
|
|
|
|
| class ITScraper(BaseScraper): |
| country = "Italia" |
|
|
| def scrape( |
| self, |
| start_date: date | None = None, |
| end_date: date | None = None, |
| ) -> list[Case]: |
| |
| start = start_date or date(2015, 1, 1) |
| end = end_date or date(2025, 12, 31) |
|
|
| session = requests.Session() |
| session.headers.update( |
| { |
| "User-Agent": "legex-research (open-data, friendly)", |
| "Accept": "application/json", |
| } |
| ) |
| session.verify = False |
|
|
| cases: list[Case] = [] |
| seen: set[str] = set() |
| for year in range(start.year, end.year + 1): |
| ystart = max(date(year, 1, 1), start).strftime("%Y%m%d") |
| yend = min(date(year, 12, 31), end).strftime("%Y%m%d") |
| query = f"kind:snciv AND pd:[{ystart} TO {yend}]" |
|
|
| total = self._count(session, query) |
| log.info("IT %d hits: %d", year, total) |
| if total == 0: |
| continue |
|
|
| offset = 0 |
| while offset < total: |
| params = { |
| "q": query, |
| "start": str(offset), |
| "rows": str(PAGE_SIZE), |
| "wt": "json", |
| "fl": FIELDS, |
| "sort": "pd desc", |
| } |
| try: |
| resp = session.get(SOLR_URL + "?" + urlencode(params), timeout=120) |
| resp.raise_for_status() |
| docs = resp.json().get("response", {}).get("docs", []) |
| except Exception as e: |
| log.warning("IT %d offset=%d failed (%s); skipping rest of year", year, offset, e) |
| break |
|
|
| if not docs: |
| break |
|
|
| for doc in docs: |
| case = self._to_case(doc) |
| if case is None or case.case_id in seen: |
| continue |
| seen.add(case.case_id) |
| cases.append(case) |
|
|
| offset += len(docs) |
| log.info("IT %d done: %d cumulative cases", year, len(cases)) |
|
|
| cases.sort(key=lambda c: c.decision_date or date.min, reverse=True) |
| log.info("Collected %d Italy civil cases", len(cases)) |
| return cases |
|
|
| @staticmethod |
| def _count(session: requests.Session, query: str) -> int: |
| params = {"q": query, "rows": "0", "wt": "json"} |
| try: |
| resp = session.get(SOLR_URL + "?" + urlencode(params), timeout=60) |
| resp.raise_for_status() |
| return int(resp.json().get("response", {}).get("numFound", 0)) |
| except Exception as e: |
| log.warning("IT count query failed (%s)", e) |
| return 0 |
|
|
| @staticmethod |
| def _to_case(doc: dict[str, Any]) -> Case | None: |
| doc_id = _first(doc.get("id")) |
| numdec = _first(doc.get("numdec")) |
| anno = _first(doc.get("anno")) |
| if not numdec or not anno: |
| return None |
| case_id = f"{numdec}/{anno}" |
|
|
| |
| |
| |
| filename = _first(doc.get("filename")) |
| link: str | None = None |
| if filename.endswith(".pdf"): |
| clean_id = filename[:-4].lstrip("./") + ".clean.pdf" |
| kind = _first(doc.get("kind")) or "snciv" |
| link = ( |
| "https://www.italgiure.giustizia.it/xway/application/nif/clean/hc.dll" |
| f"?verbo=attach&db={kind}&id={clean_id}" |
| ) |
|
|
| decision_date = _parse_solr_date(doc.get("datdep")) or _parse_solr_date( |
| doc.get("datdec") |
| ) |
| full_text = _clean_ocr(_first(doc.get("ocr"))) |
|
|
| return Case( |
| case_id=case_id, |
| link=link, |
| decision_date=decision_date, |
| jurisdiction="it", |
| language="it", |
| full_text=full_text or None, |
| metadata={ |
| "doc_id": doc_id, |
| "ecli": f"ECLI:IT:CASS:{anno}:{doc_id}" if doc_id and anno else "", |
| "filename": filename, |
| "tipoprov": _first(doc.get("tipoprov")), |
| "szdec": _first(doc.get("szdec")), |
| "presidente": _first(doc.get("presidente")), |
| "relatore": _first(doc.get("relatore")), |
| "materia": _first(doc.get("materia")), |
| }, |
| ) |
|
|