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Prototype documentation for the IA Summit 2018 talk "Architecting Information for an Open Source Citizenry ".

Audience:

Engineers

APIs

You can review (and modify!) service calls to these APIs in the democracy-ia: HR 2422 (congress.gov) RunKit .

GitHub REST API v3

• GitHub Developer REST API v3 docs

  Describes the resources that make up the official GitHub REST API v3.

• apidocs

  REST API for the Node.js client octokit/rest.js.

• octokit/rest.js

  GitHub REST API client for Node.js.

ProPublica Congress API

• apidocs

  Using the Congress API, you can retrieve legislative data from the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Library of Congress. The API, which originated at The New York Times in 2009, includes details about members, votes, bills, nominations and other aspects of congressional activity. This document describes the requests that users can make of the API and the responses that it returns.

• ProPublica Congress API User Group (Google Group)

  This group is for asking questions about the API, discussing best practices and for notifications about outages and other major changes.

• markalexandercastillo/propublica-congress

  A Node.js client for the ProPublica Congress API .

Logging

• trentm/node-bunyan

  A simple and fast JSON logging module for Node.js services.

Analytics

• yeoman/insight

  Node.js module to help you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.