Release notes for Case Harvester version 2.0:
- New case format parsers:
- ODYCOSA: Appellate Court of MD (formerly Special Court of Appeals)
- ODYCOA: Supreme Court of MD (formerly Court of Appeals)
- Daily collection of newly posted case numbers via the Collector component
- Added an Orchestrator component (written in Go) and rewrote the Spider and Scraper components in order to bypass the absurd anti-bot protections on Case Search, including DataDome. I'm not going to document their design; if the anti-transparency nerds at the Maryland Judiciary and DataDome want to figure out how it works, they can read the fucking code 🖕🏻🖕🏻
- Judge info has been added to MDEC formats
Thanks to our current and former sponsors for helping us cover our server costs and funding research and development for bypassing DataDome: