# LawRefBook/Laws

Repository: https://github.com/LawRefBook/Laws
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/laws
Language: Python
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-06-26T09:24:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 63/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 89, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1626, "days_push": 68, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1845, forks 302 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:43.359661+00:00)

## What it is
A curated dataset of Chinese laws, regulations, and departmental rules, structured by chapters and stored in Markdown with a generated SQLite database. It includes scraping scripts for the national law database and powers the LawRefBook iOS app.

## Use cases
- look up Chinese laws and regulations offline
- build a legal reference app
- search laws by chapter structure
- scrape latest laws from the national database
- query a structured legal database in sqlite

## When to choose
- you need structured, chapter-organized Chinese legal texts
- you want to build a law reference reader or app
- you need a SQLite database of laws for search

## When to avoid
- you need non-Chinese legal texts
- you need guaranteed up-to-date official legal versions
- you need legal advice or certified documents

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: data-science, parser, web-scraping
- domain: legal, education
- platform: python
- tags: law, legal-database, chinese-law, sqlite, markdown, ios

## Member repositories
- LawRefBook/Laws (main) score 63

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:43.359661+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:17:54.313196+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/LawRefBook/Laws (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:43.359661+00:00, sha cd6a5cd39a44)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.