Backend includes a web crawler that scrapes federal government websites for most recent laws and regularly sends mailing list emails containing information about the laws that were recently passed. Frontend includes a stylish website where new readers learn about the purpose behind the web scraping application and sign up to receive emails.

• U.S. federal laws
• Canadian federal laws (in progress)

1. Make sure Python (>= 3.8) and JavaScript are properly installed.
2. Clone this repository.
3. Open up terminal at LawScraper/ and install all package.json dependencies with npm install.
4. Stay in the same folder and install Python requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt.

1. Go to LawScraper/
2. Run python backend/us.py

1. Go to LawScraper/
2. Run npm start
3. Go to your preferred web browser and go to localhost:3000/views/index.html