law leecher

We have hosted the application law leecher in order to run this application in our online workstations with Wine or directly.

Quick description about law leecher:

Law Leecher is a multi-threaded web crawling tool which extracts laws from the EU law database PreLex (http: //ec.europa.eu/prelex/). It's written in Ruby.

Features:

• crawl the database for laws
• extract some general information from this
• multithreaded
• in March 2010: nearly 30000 laws are found

Audience: Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop.
User interface: Command-line, Console/Terminal, GTK+, Gnome.
Programming Language: Ruby.
Database Environment: Flat-file.
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