repapi

Simple JSON API to extract, parse, and host the US Representative website

What data does this provide

• state's districts
• district number
• district party
• district offfice room
• district phone number
• district assignments
• lists zipcodes and their districts

How to access data

All the API endpoints return JSON

http://apihost/

• This will return a json formatted list of every state and their districts, very inefficent and returns ~500 kB of data

http://apihost/state/[insert state here]

• This will return the districts of the inputted state
• state name examples: "Texas", "PuertoRico", "AmericanSamoa". Some territories are counted as states

http://apihost/stateabbr/[insert state abbr here]

• This does the same as the above but uses state abbreviations
• state abbreviation examples: "TX", "PR", "AS"

http://apihost/statelist

• This returns a list of state names and their abbreviations that are used by the API

How to compile data and host

You must have python3 and pip3 installed to compile the data

git clone https://github.com/mgurga/repapi
cd repapi
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 extractor.py
python3 api.py

extractor.py gets the data from the government website and puts it into json format

api.py hosts a web server that returns the json values, uses port 8080 by default