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A team working county court records in the US. October to November 2023.

County court records, retrieved automatically

Teams that depend on public records pay people to run the same searches every day and download documents one at a time. We drove the Hamilton County foreclosure search through Selenium, retrieved every matching filing with retries, and returned the result in a shape the team could work with.

Legal and public records. Automate and Data.

The county foreclosure search, run and downloaded by a script

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The situation

Teams that depend on public records pay people to run the same searches every day and download documents one at a time. The team needed the Hamilton County foreclosure search run repeatably, every matching filing retrieved, and the result in a shape it could work with.

What we built

  • Automated search against the county clerk-of-court system, driven through Selenium
  • Matching PDF retrieval and structured output
  • Retries on PDF retrieval, so a failed download is re-attempted within the run
  • Repeatable runs, so the same search is not re-done by hand

What changed

The same search stopped being re-done by hand, and a failed download was retried within the run instead of noticed later.

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