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Scrapes Congressional Hearings from the govinfo API

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Scrapes Congressional Hearings from the govinfo API

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  • Host: GitHub
  • Owner: datamade
  • License: mit
  • Language: Python
  • Default Branch: master
  • Size: 8.79 KB
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  • Stars: 8
  • Watchers: 1
  • Forks: 2
  • Open Issues: 1
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Created almost 8 years ago · Last pushed over 7 years ago
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README.md

GovInfo

A Python wrapper for the govinfo API.

You'll need an API key from https://api.data.gov/

Example

```python import datetime

import govinfo import pytz

scraper = govinfo.GovInfo(apikey='YOURSECRETAPIKEY')

Prints out all the different types of collections available

in the govinfo API

print(scraper.collections())

Iterate through every congressional hearing

For congressional hearings you need a specify a start

date time with a timezone

start_time = datetime.datetime(1990, 1, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=pytz.utc)

for hearing in scraper.congressionalhearings(starttime): print(hearing) ```

Owner

  • Name: datamade
  • Login: datamade
  • Kind: organization
  • Email: info@datamade.us
  • Location: Chicago, IL

We build open source technology using open data to empower journalists, researchers, governments and advocacy organizations.

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Dependencies

setup.py pypi
  • cachetools *
  • pytz *
  • scrapelib *