Python Web Scraper — Florida Court Data

Programming & Development Programming & Software Python Programming Web Scraping Pandas Playwright Comma Separated Values (CSV) Beautiful Soup Florida Judiciary Web Scraper — Config-Driven, Resilient Architecture I need a Python-based web scraping application to collect judge data from all 20 Florida judicial circuits and output it to a standardized CSV. The tool must be built for long-term maintainability — when a circuit website changes layout, only minimal configuration updates should be needed, not code rewrites.

Background:

Florida has 20 circuits covering 67 counties. Each circuit publishes judge data differently: some offer Excel/CSV downloads, others publish HTML pages and subpages with varying structures.

The master data source is:

https://www.flcourts.gov/

Florida-Courts/Trial-Courts-Circuit Required Output Fields:

(CSV)ID, Type, Name, Lastname, Assistant, Phone, Location, Street, City, State, Zip, County, Circuit, District, Courtroom, Hearingroom, Subdivision(Sample CSV will be provided — format must match exactly)

Architecture Requirements:

Config-driven circuit registry — All 20 circuits must be defined in an external config file (JSON or YAML), not hardcoded.

Each entry should include:

circuit number, base URL(s), scraping method (HTML/table/CSV download), and field mappings. Adding or updating a circuit should require only a config change. Per-circuit adapter pattern — Each circuit should have its own scraping strategy/adapter to handle unique layouts.

This isolates changes:

if Circuit 11 redesigns their site, only that adapter needs updating. Change detection — On each run, compare results to the previous run and produce a diff report (new judges, removed judges, changed fields). Full output CSV is always saved, but the diff highlights what changed. Flexible execution — Support both a full scrape of all 20 circuits and targeted single-circuit runs (e.g., --circuit 17). This allows quick re-runs when a specific circuit fails. Error handling and logging — If a circuit scrape fails or returns no results, log the error with timestamp and circuit ID. Do not silently skip circuits. Optionally support email or webhook notification on failure. Scheduling-ready — The tool should run headlessly from the command line and be schedulable via cron or Windows Task Scheduler without manual intervention.

Tech Stack Preferences:

Python 3.x, BeautifulSoup or Playwright (for JavaScript-rendered pages), pandas for CSV output. Deliverable should include a requirements.txt and brief setup documentation.

Deliverables:

Working Python application with all 20 circuits implemented External config file for all circuit URLs and scraping strategies Sample output CSV matching the provided format Change-detection diff report on each run README with setup, usage, and instructions for updating a circuit when its site changes

Additional Notes:

Some circuits render content via JavaScript and may require a headless browser (Playwright). Please flag in your proposal which circuits you identify as JS-rendered. Prior experience scraping government/court websites is a strong plus. ... Show more Job Q&A Become a member to ask a question, view Q&A, and get more benefits. Similar Jobs Software Developer Fixed Price | $500-$1k

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