IRS Form Informational Tool

Description:

Write two different uitilies to search IRS tax forms on https://apps.irs.gov/app/picklist/list/priorFormPublication.html

1. Take in a list of forms and returns a formatted json.
2. Take in a form name and a range of year, download the PDFs in a folder of the current directory.

Setup:

1. Clone this repo: https://github.com/shu004/irs-webscrape.git
2. Initiate and activate a virtual environment
   • virtualenv venv
   • source ./venv/bin/activate
3. Install dependencies
   • pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Part 1: Scraping the Site

Use command line arguments to interact. If multiple forms, put in as multiple argument. run below command to see examples.

$ python scrape.py

$ python scrape.py "form w-2"
[
    {
        "form_number": "Form W-2",
        "form_title": "Wage and Tax Statement (Info Copy Only)",
        "min_year": 1954,
        "max_year": 2022
    }
]

or

$ python scrape.py "form w-2" "publ 1"
[
    {
        "form_number": "Form W-2",
        "form_title": "Wage and Tax Statement (Info Copy Only)",
        "min_year": 1954,
        "max_year": 2022
    },
    {
        "form_number": "Publ 1",
        "form_title": "Your Rights As A Taxpayer",
        "min_year": 1996,
        "max_year": 2017
    }
]

You can save it to a file!

$ python scrape.py "form w-2" > irs_info.json

Part 2: Downloading the PDFs

Use command line arguments to interact. Input form name as an argument, a range of years as another argument. run below command to see examples.

$ python download.py

$ python scrape.py "form w-2" "2018-2019"