PT Law Downloader

PT law downloader is an open source Python package to download the official texts of the Portuguese law.

Author

The authors of this package are Jorge C. Leitão and Helder Guerreiro.

The code

This package is written in Python 3, depends on beautifulSoup 4 (pip install beautifulsoup4), and is licenced under MIT licence (see LICENCE).

To run the tests

Run the tests with:

python -m unittest discover

Usage

Law is organized in documents that contain publications. Its interface is defined by 4 functions:

• get_publication(publication_id): returns the publication publication_id
• get_publications(document_id): returns the list of publications of a document_id. Uses get_publication(publication_id).
• get_document(document_id): returns a single dictionary with a document_id, which includes all its publications. Uses get_publications(document_id).
• get_documents(series, year): returns a list of dictionaries, each entry a document_id. Uses get_document(document_id).

Typically series is either 'I' or 'II', year is an int (e.g. 2002).