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.
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/