Merge pull request #1492 from freelawproject/1284-idaho-date-parse

1284 idaho date parse

Author: flooie

CHANGES.md

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Fixes:
 - Fix `visuper_p` adaptation to new html tags #1489
 - Fix `ariz` update download URLs #1474
 - handle empty cases in `ca7` scraper #1484
+- fix `idaho_civil` preformat date to prevent parsing errors #1284
 
 ## Current
 

juriscraper/opinions/united_states/state/idaho_civil.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  - 2015-10-23, mlr: Updated to handle annoying situation.
  - 2016-02-25 arderyp: Updated to catch "ORDER" (in addition to "Order") in download url text
  - 2024-12-30, grossir: updated to OpinionSiteLinear
+ - 2025-07-09, luism: Updated to prevent wrongly formatted dates
 """
 
 from juriscraper.OpinionSiteLinear import OpinionSiteLinear
@@ -42,9 +43,15 @@ def _process_html(self):
         row_xpath = f"//table//tr[.//{self.path_conditional_anchor}]"
         for row in self.html.xpath(row_xpath):
             url = self.get_opinion_url(row).replace("http://", "https://")
+
+            # Sanitize case date, fix typo in date format
+            date = row.xpath("string(td[1])").strip()
+            if date == "Aug 22,2018":
+                date = "Aug 22, 2018"
+
             self.cases.append(
                 {
-                    "date": row.xpath("string(td[1])").strip(),
+                    "date": date,
                     "docket": row.xpath("string(td[2])").strip(),
                     "name": row.xpath("string(td[3])").strip(),
                     "url": url,