"""Serbian Supreme Court (Vrhovni sud) via the public Solr search listing. The court runs Drupal 7 with a Solr backend at `vrh.sud.rs`. The `/sr-lat/solr-search-page/results` endpoint sorts by date (newest first) and exposes each case's reference (e.g., "Rev 102/2025"), detail URL, and decision date in the result-summary block — enough for a Goldenset without fetching detail pages. Civil filter: case-ID prefix `Rev/Rev1/Rev2/Prev/Gzz/Gzz1` (civil revision). Drop `Kzz`, `Kž` (criminal). Server-side `Građanska materija` (civil matter) marker is also captured into metadata. """ import logging import re import time from datetime import date import requests import urllib3 from legex.models.base import Case from legex.scrapers.base import BaseScraper # vrh.sud.rs serves a Let's Encrypt cert without the intermediate in the chain # (AIA-only), so `requests` can't verify it out of the box. Disable verification # for this read-only scrape of public open-data; we don't transmit secrets. urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning) log = logging.getLogger(__name__) BASE_URL = "https://vrh.sud.rs" SEARCH_PATH = "/sr-lat/solr-search-page/results" USER_AGENT = "legex-research (open-data, friendly)" RESULTS_PER_PAGE = 50 MAX_PAGES = 400 DELAY_SECONDS = 0.5 _RESULT_BLOCK_RE = re.compile( r'
  • (.*?)
  • ', re.DOTALL ) _LINK_RE = re.compile( r']*class="title[^"]*"[^>]*>\s*]*>(.*?)', re.DOTALL, ) _SUMMARY_RE = re.compile( r'
    (.*?)
    ', re.DOTALL ) _DATE_RE = re.compile(r"Datum:\s*(\d{2})\.(\d{2})\.(\d{4})") _PREFIX_RE = re.compile(r"^([A-Za-zžŽ]+\d*)\s") CIVIL_PREFIXES = {"rev", "rev1", "rev2", "prev", "gzz", "gzz1"} CRIMINAL_PREFIXES = {"kzz", "kž", "kz"} def _normalize_text(raw: str) -> str: return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", re.sub(r"<[^>]+>", " ", raw)).strip() def _parse_block(block_html: str) -> dict | None: link_match = _LINK_RE.search(block_html) if not link_match: return None href = link_match.group(1).strip() case_ref = _normalize_text(link_match.group(2)) # Strip optional category code suffix like "3.2.1.3.1" from end of title. case_id = re.sub(r"\s+\d+(\.\d+)+$", "", case_ref).strip() summary_match = _SUMMARY_RE.search(block_html) summary_text = _normalize_text(summary_match.group(1)) if summary_match else "" decision_date: date | None = None d = _DATE_RE.search(summary_text) if d: try: decision_date = date(int(d.group(3)), int(d.group(2)), int(d.group(1))) except ValueError: decision_date = None matter = "other" if "Građanska" in summary_text or "Gradjanska" in summary_text: matter = "civil" elif "Krivična" in summary_text or "Krivicna" in summary_text: matter = "criminal" elif "Upravna" in summary_text: matter = "administrative" prefix_match = _PREFIX_RE.search(case_id) prefix = prefix_match.group(1).lower() if prefix_match else "" return { "case_id": case_id, "link": href if href.startswith("http") else f"{BASE_URL}{href}", "decision_date": decision_date, "matter": matter, "case_prefix": prefix, "summary": summary_text, } class RSScraper(BaseScraper): country = "Serbien" def scrape( self, start_date: date | None = None, end_date: date | None = None, ) -> list[Case]: session = requests.Session() session.headers.update({"User-Agent": USER_AGENT}) cases: list[Case] = [] seen: set[str] = set() for page in range(0, MAX_PAGES): url = ( f"{BASE_URL}{SEARCH_PATH}" f"?court_type=sc&results={RESULTS_PER_PAGE}" f"&page={page}&sorting=by_date_down" ) try: resp = session.get(url, timeout=30, verify=False) except requests.RequestException as e: log.warning("RS request error page %d: %s", page, e) break if resp.status_code != 200: log.warning("RS HTTP %d on page %d", resp.status_code, page) break blocks = _RESULT_BLOCK_RE.findall(resp.text) if not blocks: log.info("RS page %d: no results, stopping", page) break new_on_page = 0 oldest_on_page: date | None = None for block in blocks: parsed = _parse_block(block) if not parsed: continue if parsed["case_id"] in seen: continue if ( start_date and parsed["decision_date"] and parsed["decision_date"] < start_date ): if not oldest_on_page or parsed["decision_date"] < oldest_on_page: oldest_on_page = parsed["decision_date"] continue if ( end_date and parsed["decision_date"] and parsed["decision_date"] > end_date ): continue seen.add(parsed["case_id"]) new_on_page += 1 if not oldest_on_page or ( parsed["decision_date"] and parsed["decision_date"] < oldest_on_page ): oldest_on_page = parsed["decision_date"] cases.append( Case( case_id=parsed["case_id"], link=parsed["link"], decision_date=parsed["decision_date"], jurisdiction="rs", language="sr", full_text=None, metadata={ "matter": parsed["matter"], "case_prefix": parsed["case_prefix"], "summary": parsed["summary"], }, ) ) log.info( "RS page %d: %d blocks, %d new (oldest seen %s)", page, len(blocks), new_on_page, oldest_on_page, ) # Sorted desc by date: once we fully cross start_date, no more in range. if ( start_date and oldest_on_page and oldest_on_page < start_date and new_on_page == 0 ): log.info("RS page %d entirely older than start_date; stopping", page) break time.sleep(DELAY_SECONDS) cases.sort(key=lambda c: c.decision_date or date.min, reverse=True) log.info("Collected %d Serbia cases", len(cases)) return cases @staticmethod def civil_filter(cases: list[Case]) -> list[Case]: kept: list[Case] = [] for c in cases: meta = c.metadata or {} prefix = (meta.get("case_prefix") or "").lower() matter = meta.get("matter") if prefix in CRIMINAL_PREFIXES: continue if matter == "criminal": continue if prefix in CIVIL_PREFIXES or matter == "civil": kept.append(c) log.info("RS civil_filter kept %d/%d", len(kept), len(cases)) return kept