catliaw/lob_legislator

Lob Coding Challenge - Command line program to send a letter to your legislator with Lob.

Python

Lob Coding Challenge

Before running the command line program, set up your virtual environment:
```
virtualenv env
```
Source into your virtual environment:
```
source env/bin/activate
```
Set up the required libraries and dependencies from the requirements text file:
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Then set your Google API and Lob (Test) API keys as an environment variable locally:

export GOOGLE_CIVIC_KEY='your_Google_API_key'
export LOB_TEST_API_KEY='your_Lob_API_key'

Run the following code in Terminal/your command line interface (replacing 'input_file.txt' with the name of your input file):
```
python send_to_legislator.py input_file.txt
```
Preview the letter in the Lob Dashboard > Letters API section.