Re: [datameet] Data Scrapping from e-courts website

*Is there any way to initiate a more widespread discussion on opening judicial data?* Some context to the use of captcha wrt. judicial data in India. Amongst other common law countries (US, EU, Australia, UK); *India is unique* is using a captcha. Some reasons I attribute for this are (in rand

Re: [datameet] Data Scrapping from e-courts website

Hi, The purpose of captcha is to keep out automated scraping. By defeating that purpose, we trigger a nuclear arms race which will end in one of these outcomes: - The institution will (at great cost) achieve a way to effectively make scraping impossible. - The institution shall shut down its pub

Re: [datameet] Data Scrapping from e-courts website

Thanks Rahul. On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 at 21:49, Rahul Gupta wrote: > Hi Lovish, > > So the link you are sharing can be worked around with Selenium I believe. > One complex challenge you'd face would be to decode the captcha everytime > and send it back correctly. > > The way I solved it for one of m

Re: [datameet] Data Scrapping from e-courts website

Hi Lovish, So the link you are sharing can be worked around with Selenium I believe. One complex challenge you'd face would be to decode the captcha everytime and send it back correctly. The way I solved it for one of my work projects was to download captcha image everytime and pre-process image

Re: [datameet] Data Scrapping from e-courts website

Hi, Would it be possible to scrap data by using this link . Instead of scrapping through Court Complex option, can we do it from Court Establishment option ? On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 12:04, Nikhil

Re: [datameet] Data Scrapping from e-courts website

Hi Lovish, Is there any link on this site where you are able to navigate through different data items? I only see pages where you have to input certain case code etc. Please share more details with directions and examples - links or screenshots - of what you need. Then maybe somebody might be able

[datameet] Data Scrapping from e-courts website

Hi, I am working as an associate for an NGO working in the field of crimes against women. Currently I am doing research on crimes against women in prominent cities. For that, I need to scrap the data from e-courts website, *https://districts.ecourts.gov.in/* . Kindly help me with that. -- D