Juriscraper: A New Tool for Scraping Court Websites
Legalinformatics reports a new tool for scraping court websites.
I understand the need for web scraping tools but fail to understand why public data sources make it necessary? It is getting to where it is a fairly trivia exercise so it is only impeding access, not denying it.
Not that denying access is acceptable but at least it would be an understandable motivation. To try knowing you are going to fail makes you look dumb. Perhaps that is its reward.