Discovering court websites¶
Author: Amy DiPierro Version: 2020-09-08
This file describes further resources for finding other court websites, with an emphasis on Tyler Technologies’ Odyssey sites.
Finding Odyssey subdomains¶
Strategy 1: nmmapper.com¶
This subdomain finder is the best tool I’ve found to search for subdomains.
Since Odyssey websites don’t always have a predictable subdomain, it will be good ot continue to search for new subdomains as we come across them.
Here are some searches to run:
tylerhost.net/
tylerhost.net/Portal/
Strategy 2: Google Custom Search API¶
We can use Google’s Custom Search API to run targetted searches that surface websites built with Odyssey. I’ve not run this yet but it might be worth it.
Some suggested searches that turn up promising results:
court portal “© 2020 Tyler Technologies, Inc.” -site:tylertech.com -iTax -stock -taxes
Existing efforts to scrape court data¶
The Police Data Accessibility Project, an open data initiative started on Reddit this summer, has already compiled some basic databases of court websites upon which we can build:
The group’s Public Access to Court Records State Links.csv GoogleSheet contains a partial list of court websites with the names of vendors sometimes noted.
It might be worth glancing at their GitHub and Slack channel from time to time to see if there are opportunities to learn from their research and code.
The Tubman Project, a nonprofit that is trying to build software to “make legal defense available to the masses”, has also compiled some data on Tyler Technologies platforms in this thread.