Dataset · Text retrieval

ipfs_malawi_laws

by Benjamin J Barber endomorphosis/ipfs_malawi_laws

Research snapshot of official legislation collected from MalawiLII / Parliament of Malawi. Not legal advice. Official gazettes / government portals prevail over this corpus.

Rows8,682

Configurations2

Size74.4 MB

Licenseother

AccessPublicly accessible

Monthly Downloads1.8k

Dataset Card

Research snapshot of official legislation collected from MalawiLII / Parliament of Malawi. Not legal advice. Official gazettes / government portals prevail over this corpus. - data/laws.parquet — one row per instrument (id, title, full text, dates, status, identifiers, article count, source URL). - data/articles.parquet — one row per article/section (lawid, article number, title, text, source URL). - scrapers/collectmw.py — research collector used to build this snapshot. - scrapers/common.py — shared collector helpers. - scrapers/worldlib.py — shared fetch (live official URL, Wayback fallback). - scrapers/archivefallbacks.py — Wayback / Common Crawl CDX helpers. Official government /…

Excerpt from the card by Benjamin J Barber, licensed other.

Structure

laws 4,265 rows

Split	Rows	Size
train	4,265	149.9 MB

idlarge_stringtitlelarge_stringtextlarge_stringsource_urllarge_stringsource_typelarge_stringjurisdictionlarge_stringcountrylarge_stringlanguagelarge_stringelinulldatenulldate_issuednullretrieved_atlarge_stringlicenselarge_stringlaw_statuslarge_stringidentifierlarge_stringofficial_identifierlarge_stringarticle_countint64json_pathlarge_stringmetadata_jsonlarge_string

articles 4,417 rows

Split	Rows	Size
train	4,417	36.4 MB

law_idlarge_stringidlarge_stringtitlelarge_stringtextlarge_stringsource_urllarge_stringdocument_numberlarge_stringarticle_numberlarge_stringrecord_typelarge_stringmetadata_jsonlarge_string

Details

Repository: endomorphosis/ipfs_malawi_laws
Publisher: Benjamin J Barber
Task category: Text retrieval
Tags: legal, law, malawi
Size category: 1K<n<10K
Languages: en
Revision: 0e36f666a44018c09a315fc3636bd6a6172e482b
Last updated: 2026-09-20

Files

10 files, 74.4 MB in total.

Data2 files · 74.3 MB

Documentation2 files · 2.0 KB

Other5 files · 96.7 KB

Repository1 file · 2.5 KB

Every file

File	Type	Size	SHA-256
data/articles.parquet	Data	14.5 MB	24c9fbc492ae
data/laws.parquet	Data	59.8 MB	427233c49ea7
MANIFEST.md	Documentation	194 B	—
README.md	Documentation	1.8 KB	—
scrapers/archive_fallbacks.py	Other	49.9 KB	—
scrapers/collect_mw.py	Other	357 B	—
scrapers/common.py	Other	15.8 KB	—
scrapers/pdf_extract_lib.py	Other	13.4 KB	—
scrapers/world_lib.py	Other	17.2 KB	—
.gitattributes	Repository	2.5 KB	—

License and Download

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