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Icelandic court rulings — héraðsdómstólar, Landsréttur, Hæstiréttur. Search, RSS feeds, PDF download.
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| name | domstolar |
| description | Icelandic court rulings — héraðsdómstólar, Landsréttur, Hæstiréttur. Search, RSS feeds, PDF download. |
Three independent court sites — no unified API, all HTML scraping.
| Court | Domain | Rulings from |
|---|---|---|
| Héraðsdómstólar (8 district courts) | heradsdomstolar.is | ~2015+ |
| Landsréttur (Court of Appeals) | landsrettur.is | 2018+ |
| Hæstiréttur (Supreme Court) | haestirettur.is | 1999+ |
Case number prefixes: E- = einkamál (civil), S- = sakamál (criminal).
https://www.heradsdomstolar.is/heradsdomstolar/{slug}/domar/rss/
Courts: reykjavik, reykjanes, vesturland, vestfirdir, nordurland-vestra, nordurland-eystra, austurland, sudurland
Each RSS item has: <title> (case number), <description> (reifun/summary), <link>, <guid> (UUID), <pubDate>.
https://www.heradsdomstolar.is/Cache/Verdicts/{guid}.pdf
https://www.heradsdomstolar.is/default.aspx?SearchAction=Search&pageid=fd8e17eb-6e70-11e5-80c3-005056bc50d4&Verdict={text}&Court={court}&CaseNumber=&CaseType=&LawParagraphs=&Keywords=&Parties=&FromDate={DD.MM.YYYY}&ToDate={DD.MM.YYYY}
Caveat: Search results render client-side (JS required → Playwright). Use RSS + pagination for non-JS scraping.
GET /default.aspx?pageitemid={pageitemid}&offset={n}&count={batch_size}
Reykjavík pageitemid: 98619c0d-86c7-11e5-80c6-005056bc6a40 (initial count=22, then batches of 6).
Returns .verdict-box divs with date, case number, judge, parties, reifun, link.
https://www.heradsdomstolar.is/default.aspx?pageid=347c3bb1-8926-11e5-80c6-005056bc6a40&id={guid}
https://www.landsrettur.is/search?Text={text}&CaseNumber=&LawCitations=&Keywords=&Parties=&CaseType=&FromDate={DD.MM.YYYY}&ToDate={DD.MM.YYYY}
GET /domar-og-urskurdir/$Verdicts/Index/?pageitemid=5cf6e850-20b6-11e9-85de-94b86df896cb&offset={n}&count={n}
Returns HTML fragments. Default count=12.
https://www.landsrettur.is/domar-og-urskurdir/domur-urskurdur/?Id={case_uuid}&verdictid={verdict_uuid}
https://www.haestirettur.is/default.aspx?SearchAction=Search&pageid=fd8e17eb-6e70-11e5-80c3-005056bc50d4&tab=1&Verdict={text}&CaseNumber=&LawParagraphs=&Keywords=&Parties=&FromDate=&ToDate=
GET /default.aspx?pageitemid=a31e2c30-9510-11e5-80c6-005056bc6a40&offset={n}&count={n}
https://www.haestirettur.is/default.aspx?pageid=0f2f6428-7b6a-11eb-947c-005056bc0bdb&id={guid}
E-679/2023, 36/2020/Cache/Verdicts/{guid}.pdf (district) or scrape HTML (upper courts)launaþjófnaður (wage theft)vangreidd laun / vangoldin laun (unpaid wages)vinnulaun (work wages)kjarasamningur (collective agreement)ólögmæt launakjör (illegal wage conditions)mansal (human trafficking — severe cases)vinnuréttindi (labor rights)"""Search Icelandic court rulings across all three court levels."""
import httpx
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
COURTS = {
"héraðsdómstólar": {
"base": "https://www.heradsdomstolar.is",
"search": "/default.aspx",
"params": {
"SearchAction": "Search",
"pageid": "fd8e17eb-6e70-11e5-80c3-005056bc50d4",
},
"text_param": "Verdict",
"pagination_pageitemid": "98619c0d-86c7-11e5-80c6-005056bc6a40",
},
"landsréttur": {
"base": "https://www.landsrettur.is",
"search": "/search",
"params": {},
"text_param": "Text",
"pagination_pageitemid": "5cf6e850-20b6-11e9-85de-94b86df896cb",
},
"hæstiréttur": {
"base": "https://www.haestirettur.is",
"search": "/default.aspx",
"params": {
"SearchAction": "Search",
"pageid": "fd8e17eb-6e70-11e5-80c3-005056bc50d4",
"tab": "1",
},
"text_param": "Verdict",
"pagination_pageitemid": "a31e2c30-9510-11e5-80c6-005056bc6a40",
},
}
def paginate_results(court_key: str, offset: int = 0, count: int = 20):
"""Fetch a page of rulings via the AJAX pagination endpoint (no JS needed)."""
court = COURTS[court_key]
url = f"{court['base']}/default.aspx"
params = {
"pageitemid": court["pagination_pageitemid"],
"offset": offset,
"count": count,
}
r = httpx.get(url, params=params, timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
return parse_verdict_boxes(r.text)
def parse_verdict_boxes(html: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Parse .verdict-box elements from HTML fragment."""
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
results = []
for box in soup.select(".verdict-box, .row"):
# Extract what we can — structure varies by court
links = box.select("a[href]")
title = box.get_text(strip=True)[:200]
href = links[0]["href"] if links else None
results.append({"title": title, "url": href})
return results
def fetch_rss(court_slug: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Fetch RSS feed for a district court."""
url = f"https://www.heradsdomstolar.is/heradsdomstolar/{court_slug}/domar/rss/"
r = httpx.get(url, timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "xml")
items = []
for item in soup.find_all("item"):
items.append({
"case_number": item.title.text if item.title else "",
"summary": item.description.text if item.description else "",
"url": item.link.text if item.link else "",
"guid": item.guid.text if item.guid else "",
"date": item.pubDate.text if item.pubDate else "",
})
return items
def download_pdf(guid: str, output_path: str):
"""Download district court ruling PDF."""
url = f"https://www.heradsdomstolar.is/Cache/Verdicts/{guid}.pdf"
r = httpx.get(url, timeout=60)
r.raise_for_status()
with open(output_path, "wb") as f:
f.write(r.content)
# Usage:
# items = fetch_rss("reykjavik")
# download_pdf(items[0]["guid"], "ruling.pdf")
# results = paginate_results("hæstiréttur", offset=0, count=20)
All three sites disallow /domar* in robots.txt. Search and pagination endpoints are not blocked. Use responsibly for personal/research purposes.