First database of JSON formatted U.S. State codes

[christyleos]

David Awad is putting together a database of the current code of every single state and the federal government so that we can track the changes in every law all the time. He has a way to now download the state codes from almost all of the states over multiple years. https://github.com/davidawad/statedb

He's also writing a special scraper to go through a few websites to create a JSON structured database of the state laws of multiple states.

Needs:

• Help with getting the spider run on more of these states. Right now it will take a long time for him to run the script himself for all the different states; here's a sample file for Alabama's state codes from last year. https://github.com/davidawad/statedb/blob/master/alabama_2017_partial.json?raw=true
• Access to a powerful computer for a week or two to just run 50 processes for a little while

The hope here is that pretty soon people will be able to access a real database with all of the state laws and be able to do meaningful comparisons and data analysis. A programmer friendly dataset of all the state laws has never really existed before.