At the moment, this library is a work in progress. It currently reads the IL State Board of Elections Reports Filed feed, and is able to parse A1 and D2 reports and return python objects containing data about the contributions therein.

The library exposes three public methods:

• scrape_reports_filed(): Returns list of all recent reports, in reverse-chronological order. You'll probably want to pay attention to the
  report ID in order to avoid duplication - the feed, for some reason, seems to contain multiple entries for some but not all reports, assigning them to multiple committees. The library is capable of determining the correct committee when given the report ID, however.

• scrape_a1(report_id, report_url, report_date): Downloads and processes an A1 report, returning a dict with keys 'contribs' (containing a list of individual contributions, also as dicts); 'committee_id' (the ID of the filing committee); and 'committee_name' (the name of the filing committee).

• scrape_d2(report_id): Given a report ID, returns a 3-tuple of individual contributions (as a list); transfers-in (as a list); and report metadata (as a dict). The report metadata contains the summary lines for each separate category in the D2 report.