BundesGit Gesetze Tools

These scripts are used to keep the law repository up to date.

Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

For help, see the docstring of the scripts, command line help or source code.

Download laws (lawde.py)

Downloads all laws as XML files from www.gesetze-im-internet.de and extracts them to a directory.

Usage

Update your list of laws first:

python3 lawde.py updatelist

You can then download all laws by calling

python3 lawde.py loadall

Which will take approx. 2-3hrs.

Alternatively, you can find the individual law you're interested in in ./data/laws.json, which is mostly a list of laws in this form:

{"slug": "<shortname>", "name": "<longname>", "abbreviation": "<abbreviation>"}

You can download individual laws by calling

python3 lawde.py load <shortname>

Last tested: 2021-05-15 SUCCESS

Convert to Markdown (lawdown.py)

Converts all downloaded XML laws to Markdown format and copies them with other files related to the law into specified working directory.

Usage

python3 lawdown.py convert <inpath> <outpath>
python3 lawdown.py convert ./laws ./laws-md

Last tested: 2021-05-15 SUCCESS

Scaper Bundesgesetzblatt (bgbl_scraper.py)

Scrapes the table of contents of all issues of the Bundesgesetzblatt and dumps the result to JSON.

python3 bgbl_scraper.py data/bgbl.json

Last tested: 2021-05-15 SUCCESS

Scaper Bundesanzeiger (banz_scraper.py)

Scrapes the table of contents of all available issues of the Bundesanzeiger and dumps the result to JSON.

Last tested: 2020-12-23 SUCCESS

Scaper Verkehrsblatt (vkbl_scraper.py)

Scrapes the table of contents of all available issues of the Verkehrsblatt and dumps the result to JSON.

python3 vkbl_scraper.py data/vkbl.json

Last tested: 2021-05-15 SUCCESS

Commit changes (lawgit.py)

Checks the repositories working directory for changes, tries to find relations to table of content entries in BGBl and BAnz data, commits the changes to a branch and merges the branch into master.

Last tested: 2017-01-14 SUCCESS