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scraping, storing, and sharing legislative information

Project description

billy is a suite of tools developed as a part of Open States that provide a framework for scraping, storing, and sharing legislative information.

Features:
  • Scraper architecture for scraping bills, votes, legislators, committees, and events.

  • Utility scripts for data cleanup and analysis.

  • Bulk data export.

  • Server that includes a data browser and API.

Requirements

  • python >= 2.6

  • argparse

  • pymongo

  • scrapelib

  • validictory

  • lxml

  • name_tools

Installation

billy is available on PyPI and can be installed via pip install billy

PyPI package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/billy

Source: https://github.com/sunlightlabs/billy/

Documentation: http://billy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

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