the-law-factory-parser

Data generator for the-law-factory project (http://www.LaFabriqueDeLaLoi.fr)

Code used to generate the API available at: http://www.LaFabriqueDeLaLoi.fr/api/

Install the dependencies

You can install them with the following:

virtualenv -p $(which python3) venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade setuptools pip # not necessary but always a good idea
pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

NOTE: You must have Python 3.5+ for now

Generate data for one bill

search for the bill's procedure page on Senat.fr or Assemblee-nationale.fr.
execute parse_one.py script using the procedure page:

python parse_one.py <url>

The data is generated in the "data" directory. You can change this default behavior by inputting a data path as extra argument: python parse_one.py <url> <dataDir>.

For example, to generate data about the "Enseignement supérieur et recherche" bill:

python parse_one.py http://www.senat.fr/dossier-legislatif/pjl12-614.html
ls data/pjl12-614/

You can also use directly Senate's ids such as: python parse_one.py pjl12-614

Development options --debug, --enable-cache and --only-promulgated can also be used.

Generate data for many bills

To generate all bills from 2008, you can pipe a list of ids or urls into parse_many.py.

A convenient way to do so is to use senapy:

senapy-cli doslegs_urls --min-year=2008 | python parse_many.py data/

See senapy-cli doslegs_urls help for more options. You can also use anpy with anpy-cli doslegs_urls.

Serve bills locally for The Law Factory website

First, you need to build data for all desired bills.

Then generate the files required by the frontend:

python generate_dossiers_csv.py data/       # generates home.json and dossiers_promulgues.csv used by the searchbar
python tools/assemble_procedures.py data/   # generates dossiers_n.json files used by the Navettes viz

Finally, serve the data directory however you like. For instance, you can serve it on a specific port with a simple http server like nodeJs', in which case, you'll need to enable cors: just install http-server with npm and run it in data directory on a given port (8002 in the example):

npm install -g http-server
cd data & http-server -p 8002 --cors

Generate git version for a bill

(coming back soon)

Other things you can do

parse a sénat dosleg: senapy-cli parse pjl15-610
parse all the sénat doslegs: senapy-cli doslegs_urls | senapy-cli parse_many senat_doslegs/
parse all the AN doslegs anpy-cli doslegs_urls | anpy-cli parse_many_doslegs an_doslegs/
parse an AN dosleg: anpy-cli show_dossier_like_senapy http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/dossiers/deuxieme_collectif_2009.asp
generate a graph of the steps: python tools/steps_as_dot.py data/ | dot -Tsvg > steps.svg

Tests

To run the tests, you can follow the .travis.yml file.

git clone https://github.com/regardscitoyens/the-law-factory-parser-test-cases.git
python tests/test_regressions.py the-law-factory-parser-test-cases

If you modify something, best is to regenerate the test-cases with the --regen flag:

python tests/test_regressions.py the-law-factory-parser-test-cases --regen

To make the tests faster, you can also use the --enable-cache flag.

You can also watch for parts of the code not yet covered by the tests:

First, install coverage: pip install coverage
Then, you can execute bash coverage.sh
Then, the report is in htmlcov/index.html

Credits

This work, a collaboration between Regard Citoyens, médialab Sciences Po and CEE Sciences Po, is supported by a public grant overseen by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the "Investissements d'Avenir" program within the framework of the LIEPP center of excellence (ANR11LABX0091, ANR 11 IDEX000502).

More details at https://lafabriquedelaloi.fr/a-propos.html

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