from __future__ import annotations import logging import re import threading import time import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed from datetime import date import requests from dateutil import parser as dateutil_parser from legex.models.base import Case from legex.scrapers.base import BaseScraper log = logging.getLogger(__name__) # Find Case Law (caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk): UKSC + Court of Appeal Civil # Division. BAILII is gated behind an Anubis proof-of-work and supremecourt.uk # only covers post-2020; National Archives is the clean upstream. Bulk # computational analysis requires a separate licence (held for legex). BASE_URL = "https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk" ATOM_URL = f"{BASE_URL}/atom.xml" COURTS = ["uksc", "ewca/civ"] PAGE_SIZE = 50 DELAY_SECONDS = 3 RETRY_DELAY_SECONDS = 30 XML_WORKERS = 8 # 1000 requests / 5 min rolling window per IP. Cap to ~2.85 req/sec globally. _MIN_INTERVAL = 0.35 _RATE_LOCK = threading.Lock() _LAST_REQ_AT = [0.0] ATOM_NS = { "atom": "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom", "tna": "https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk", } AKN = "{http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0}" # Non-civil title patterns. Find Case Law truncates the bracketed applicant in # UKSC judicial review ("R (on the application of X) v ..." → "R v ...") so it # is indistinguishable from criminal "R v " by surface form. EWCA # Civil instead inverts the form (", R (on the application of) v # ..."). Both criminal and administrative are out of scope, so we drop: # - any "R v ..." or "R (..." opening # - any "..., R (on the application of) ..." (EWCA Civil's inverted JR) # - DPP / Attorney General's Reference / HM Advocate / Procurator Fiscal. _NOT_CIVIL_RE = re.compile( r"^R\s+(?:v\b|\()" r"|\bR\s*\(on the application of\b" r"|^(?:Director of Public Prosecutions|DPP)\s+v\b" r"|^Attorney General(?:['’]s)?\s+Reference\b" r"|\b(?:Her Majesty(?:['’]s)?\s+Advocate|HM\s+Advocate|Procurator Fiscal)\b", re.IGNORECASE, ) def _throttle() -> None: with _RATE_LOCK: wait = _MIN_INTERVAL - (time.monotonic() - _LAST_REQ_AT[0]) if wait > 0: time.sleep(wait) _LAST_REQ_AT[0] = time.monotonic() def _parse_date(raw: str | None) -> date | None: if not raw: return None try: return date.fromisoformat(raw[:10]) except ValueError: pass try: return dateutil_parser.parse(raw, dayfirst=True).date() except (ValueError, OverflowError, dateutil_parser.ParserError): return None def _fetch(session: requests.Session, url: str, params: dict | None = None) -> bytes | None: _throttle() try: resp = session.get(url, params=params, timeout=30) if resp.status_code == 429: log.warning("HTTP 429 on %s — sleeping %ds then retrying", url, RETRY_DELAY_SECONDS) time.sleep(RETRY_DELAY_SECONDS) _throttle() resp = session.get(url, params=params, timeout=30) if not resp.ok: log.warning("HTTP %d for %s", resp.status_code, url) return None return resp.content except requests.RequestException as exc: log.warning("Error fetching %s: %s", url, exc) return None def _extract_full_text(xml_bytes: bytes) -> str | None: try: root = ET.fromstring(xml_bytes) except ET.ParseError: return None body = root.find(f".//{AKN}judgmentBody") if body is None: return None parts: list[str] = [] for el in body.iter(): for t in (el.text, el.tail): if t and (s := t.strip()): parts.append(s) return "\n".join(parts) if parts else None def _entry_to_case(entry: ET.Element, court: str) -> Case | None: title_el = entry.find("atom:title", ATOM_NS) title = (title_el.text if title_el is not None else "") or "" published_el = entry.find("atom:published", ATOM_NS) decision_date = _parse_date(published_el.text if published_el is not None else None) link_html = link_xml = link_pdf = None for link in entry.findall("atom:link", ATOM_NS): rel = link.attrib.get("rel") ltype = link.attrib.get("type") href = link.attrib.get("href") if not href: continue if rel == "alternate" and ltype is None and href.startswith(BASE_URL): link_html = href elif ltype == "application/akn+xml": link_xml = href elif ltype == "application/pdf": link_pdf = href if not link_html: return None cite_el = entry.find("tna:identifier[@type='ukncn']", ATOM_NS) citation = cite_el.text if cite_el is not None else None slug = cite_el.attrib.get("slug") if cite_el is not None else None return Case( case_id=citation, link=link_html, decision_date=decision_date, jurisdiction="uk", language="en", full_text=None, metadata={ "title": title, "slug": slug, "court": court, "xml_url": link_xml, "pdf_url": link_pdf, }, ) class UKScraper(BaseScraper): country = "United Kingdom" def scrape( self, start_date: date | None = None, end_date: date | None = None, ) -> list[Case]: session = requests.Session() session.headers.update({"Accept": "application/atom+xml, application/xml, */*"}) cases: list[Case] = [] seen: set[str] = set() for court in COURTS: cases.extend(self._scrape_court(session, court, seen, start_date, end_date)) todo = [c for c in cases if (c.metadata or {}).get("xml_url")] if todo: log.info("Fetching full_text for %d Akoma Ntoso XML files", len(todo)) done = failed = 0 with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=XML_WORKERS) as pool: futures = { pool.submit(_fetch, session, c.metadata["xml_url"]): c for c in todo } for fut in as_completed(futures): case = futures[fut] xml_bytes = fut.result() text = _extract_full_text(xml_bytes) if xml_bytes else None if text: case.full_text = text done += 1 else: failed += 1 if (done + failed) % 100 == 0: log.info( "XML progress %d/%d (failed=%d)", done + failed, len(todo), failed, ) log.info("Hydrated %d XML files (failed=%d)", done, failed) return cases @staticmethod def _scrape_court( session: requests.Session, court: str, seen: set[str], start_date: date | None, end_date: date | None, ) -> list[Case]: out: list[Case] = [] page = 1 while True: log.info("[%s] atom page %d", court, page) data = _fetch(session, ATOM_URL, params={"court": court, "page": page}) if not data: break try: root = ET.fromstring(data) except ET.ParseError as exc: log.warning("[%s] parse error on page %d: %s", court, page, exc) break entries = root.findall("atom:entry", ATOM_NS) if not entries: log.info("[%s] no entries on page %d — stopping", court, page) break all_before_start = True for entry in entries: case = _entry_to_case(entry, court) if case is None or not case.link or case.link in seen: continue d = case.decision_date if end_date and d and d > end_date: # Too new — feed is sorted desc, so older (in-window) pages are still ahead. all_before_start = False continue if start_date and d and d >= start_date: all_before_start = False if start_date and d and d < start_date: continue seen.add(case.link) out.append(case) if start_date and all_before_start: log.info("[%s] all on page %d predate start_date — stopping early", court, page) break if len(entries) < PAGE_SIZE: log.info("[%s] last page at %d (%d items)", court, page, len(entries)) break time.sleep(DELAY_SECONDS) page += 1 log.info("[%s] collected %d cases", court, len(out)) return out @staticmethod def civil_filter(cases: list[Case]) -> list[Case]: return [ c for c in cases if not _NOT_CIVIL_RE.search(((c.metadata or {}).get("title") or "").strip()) ]