Scrape Ontario SIU Director's Reports into a tidy CSV — morie_siu_fetch

Pulls the SIU index, walks every linked case-detail page, and writes a six-column CSV (case_number, police_service, incident_iso, notification_iso, decision_iso, director_decision_text, source_url) into cache_dir.

Usage

morie_siu_fetch_cases(
  years = NULL,
  cache_dir = file.path(tempdir(), "morie", "siu"),
  overwrite = FALSE,
  progress = TRUE
)

Arguments

years: Integer vector of fiscal years to scrape, or NULL (default) to scrape the unfiltered index. Years above 2023 (the latest published as of release) may return empty results.
cache_dir: Output directory. Default file.path(tempdir(), "morie", "siu"); pass morie_cache_dir("siu") for persistent caching.
overwrite: Logical; if FALSE and SIU.csv already exists, its path is returned without re-scraping.
progress: Logical; print a one-line status per index / case fetch when TRUE (default).

Value

Path to the written SIU.csv.

Details

This is the lightweight R-only path. For the full 64-column corpus use morie_fetch_siu (compiled C++ harvester).

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Network: scrapes the SIU index (~5-15 min at the polite rate).
csv <- morie_siu_fetch_cases(cache_dir = tempfile("siu_"))
utils::head(utils::read.csv(csv))
} # }