#!/usr/bin/env python """ A script that fetches, parses and archives the XML data dumps of lobbyist's political contributions published by The Senate Office of Public Records. Zips files containing the XML are: 1. Downloaded and unzipped. 2. Parsed out into flat text files and stored in a timestamped folder structure. 3. Imported to a SQLite database. The ultimate goal is for a series of SQL statements to scrub and cut the data to account for flaws in the reporting system first uncovered by Bill Allison and Anupama Narayanswamy of The Sunlight Foundation. Sunlight study: http://realtime.sunlightprojects.org/2008/08/14/mark-warner-biggest-recipient-of-lobbyist-dough-new-disclosures-show-so-far/ Simple analysis tasks could then be scripted to output as schedule XLS dumps, email alerts or maybe even Django-ifed HTML. Source URL: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/contributions_download.htm Dependencies: BeautifulSoup, Pysqlite2 The MIT License Copyright (c) 2008 Ben Welsh THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. """ __author__ = "Ben Welsh " __date__ = "$Date: 2008/08/17 $" __version__ = "$Revision: 0.1 $" import datetime import os import urllib import re import codecs import zipfile import string try: from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup, BeautifulSoup except ImportError: print """ IMPORT ERROR: Required module not found: Beautiful Soup. Installation instructions: If you have easy_install, enter "sudo easy_install BeautifulSoup" via your shell. Otherwise, the source can be downloaded from http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ """ raise SystemExit try: from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 as sqlite except ImportError: print """ IMPORT ERROR: Required module not found: Pysqlite. Visit http://pysqlite.org and download the latest module. """ raise SystemExit #"""Create an archive folder structure using the current datetime. Returns path.""" ###Setting timestamps now = datetime.datetime.now() datestamp = "%s-%s-%s" % (now.year, now.month, now.day) timestamp = "%sh%sm%ss" % (now.hour, now.minute, now.second) sqlitestamp = "%s-%s-%s %s:%s:%s" % (now.year, now.month, now.day, now.hour, now.minute, now.second) ###Setting directory variables, creating archive folder structure working_directory = "." data_directory = os.path.join(working_directory, 'data') if os.path.isdir(data_directory): print "Data directory already exists at %s" % data_directory else: os.mkdir(data_directory) print "Creating data directory at %s" % data_directory todays_data_subdirectory = os.path.join(data_directory, datestamp) if os.path.isdir(todays_data_subdirectory): print "Today's data subdirectory already exists at %s" % todays_data_subdirectory else: os.mkdir(todays_data_subdirectory) print "Creating today's data subdirectory at %s" % todays_data_subdirectory this_scripts_data_subdirectory = os.path.join(todays_data_subdirectory, timestamp) if os.path.isdir(this_scripts_data_subdirectory): print "This script's data subdirectory already exists at %s" % this_scripts_data_subdirectory else: os.mkdir(this_scripts_data_subdirectory) print "Creating this script's data subdirectory at %s" % this_scripts_data_subdirectory ##Open files for writing out. filings_path = os.path.join(this_scripts_data_subdirectory, 'filings.txt') lobbyists_path = os.path.join(this_scripts_data_subdirectory, 'lobbyists.txt') contribs_path = os.path.join(this_scripts_data_subdirectory, 'contribs.txt') filings_file = codecs.open(filings_path, "w", "utf-8") lobbyists_file = codecs.open(lobbyists_path, "w", "utf-8") contribs_file = codecs.open(contribs_path, "w", "utf-8") ##Visiting SOPR to grab the zip downloads url = 'http://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/contributions_download.htm' http = urllib.urlopen(url) soup = BeautifulSoup(http) anchor_tags = soup.findAll('a') zip_links = [] for a in anchor_tags: href = a['href'] if re.search('(.*).zip', href): zip_links.append(href) for zip_link in zip_links: zip_name = zip_link.split('/')[-1] zip_path = os.path.join(this_scripts_data_subdirectory, zip_name) urllib.urlretrieve(zip_link, zip_path) print "Downloaded %s " % zip_name ##Unzip file try: zip = zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path) for file in zip.namelist(): print "Unzipping %s" % file f = open(os.path.join(this_scripts_data_subdirectory, file), 'wb') f.write(zip.read(file)) f.close() except: print "Failed to unzip %s" % zip_name ##Snatching XML files for parsing this_scripts_downloads = os.listdir(this_scripts_data_subdirectory) this_scripts_xml_files = [] for file in this_scripts_downloads: if re.search(".xml", file): this_scripts_xml_files.append(file) filing_id = 0 ##Parsing XML files for xml_file_name in this_scripts_xml_files: print "Processing %s" % xml_file_name xml_file = os.path.join(this_scripts_data_subdirectory, xml_file_name) xml = open(xml_file, "r") soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(xml, selfClosingTags=['lobbyist', 'contribution', 'registrant']) ##Parsing filing data for f in soup.publicfilings.findAll('filing'): filing_id = filing_id + 1 filing = [] filing.append("%s" % filing_id) filing.append(xml_file_name) try: filing.append(f['id']) except: filing.append('null') try: filing.append(f['year']) except: filing.append('null') try: filing.append(f['received']) except: filing.append('null') try: filing.append(f['type']) except: filing.append('null') try: filing.append(f['period']) except: filing.append('null') try: filing.append(f.registrant['registrantid']) except: filing.append('null') try: raw_registrant = f.registrant['registrantname'] split_registrant = raw_registrant.split(' ') clean_registrant = " ".join(split_registrant) filing.append(clean_registrant) except: filing.append('null') try: raw_address = f.registrant['address'] split_address = raw_address.split(' ') clean_address = " ".join(split_address) filing.append(clean_address) except: filing.append('null') try: raw_country = f.registrant['registrantcountry'] split_country = raw_country.split(' ') clean_country = " ".join(split_country) filing.append(clean_country) except: filing.append('null') print >> filings_file, '|'.join(filing) try: ##Parsing lobbyist names for l in f.findAll('lobbyist'): lobbyist = [] lobbyist.append("%s" % filing_id) lobbyist.append(xml_file_name) lobbyist.append(f['id']) try: raw_name = l['lobbyistname'] split_name = raw_name.split(' ') clean_name = " ".join(split_name) lobbyist.append(clean_name) except: lobbyist.append('null') print >> lobbyists_file, '|'.join(lobbyist) except: print "Failed parsing lobbyist record for filing %s" % f['id'] try: ##Parsing contributions data for c in f.contributions: contrib = [] contrib.append("%s" % filing_id) contrib.append(xml_file_name) contrib.append(f['id']) try: contrib.append(c['contributor']) except: contrib.append('null') try: contrib.append(c['contributiontype']) except: contrib.append('null') try: raw_payee = c['payee'] split_payee = raw_payee.split(' ') clean_payee = " ".join(split_payee) contrib.append(clean_payee) except: contrib.append('null') try: raw_honoree = c['honoree'] split_honoree = raw_honoree.split(' ') clean_honoree = " ".join(split_honoree) contrib.append(clean_honoree) except: contrib.append('null') try: contrib.append(c['amount']) except: contrib.append('null') try: contrib.append(c['contributiondate']) except: contrib.append('null') print >> contribs_file, '|'.join(contrib) except: pass ##Closing out files filings_file.close() lobbyists_file.close() contribs_file.close() con = sqlite.connect(os.path.join(this_scripts_data_subdirectory, "contribs")) cur = con.cursor() ## Creating Sqlite tables ## Will ultimately need to convert date fields from varchar to datetime. create_tables = """ create table if not exists filing( artificial_filing_id integer, xml_file_name varchar(100), sopr_filing_id varchar(100), year integer, received varchar(100), type varchar(100), period varchar(100), registrant_id integer, registrant_name varchar(100), registrant_address varchar(500), registrant_country varchar(100), insert_datetime datetime ); create table if not exists contrib( artificial_filing_id integer, xml_file_name varchar(100), sopr_filing_id varchar(100), contributor varchar(100), contribution_type varchar(100), payee varchar(200), honoree varchar(200), amount integer, contribution_date varchar(100), insert_datetime datetime ); create table if not exists lobbyist( artificial_filing_id integer, xml_file_name varchar(100), sopr_filing_id varchar(100), lobbyist_name varchar(200), insert_datetime datetime );""" cur.executescript(create_tables) ##Reopening flat files for reading so they can be inserted into the db filings_file = codecs.open(filings_path, "r", "utf-8") lobbyists_file = codecs.open(lobbyists_path, "r", "utf-8") contribs_file = codecs.open(contribs_path, "r", "utf-8") print "Inserting filings" for line in filings_file: record = line.split('|') record.append(sqlitestamp) insert_record = """ insert into filing( artificial_filing_id, xml_file_name, sopr_filing_id, year, received, type, period, registrant_id, registrant_name, registrant_address, registrant_country, insert_datetime ) values ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? );""" cur.execute(insert_record, record) con.commit() print "Inserting contribs" for line in contribs_file: record = line.split('|') record.append(sqlitestamp) insert_record = """ insert into contrib( artificial_filing_id, xml_file_name, sopr_filing_id, contributor, contribution_type, payee, honoree, amount, contribution_date, insert_datetime ) values ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? );""" cur.execute(insert_record, record) con.commit() print "Inserting lobbyists" for line in lobbyists_file: record = line.split('|') record.append(sqlitestamp) insert_record = """ insert into lobbyist( artificial_filing_id, xml_file_name, sopr_filing_id, lobbyist_name, insert_datetime ) values ( ?, ?, ?, ?, ? );""" cur.execute(insert_record, record) con.commit() con.close() ##Closing out files filings_file.close() lobbyists_file.close() contribs_file.close()