mattyg/ALEC_api

api & scraper for data at ALECexposed.org

Warning: Experimental!

• This service is still in active development and is not production ready, see features to add
• Data is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ thanks to the Center for Media and Democracy

API Key

You need a unique API Key, get one here

Base URL for requests

/api/{api}/{method}.{format}

URL paramaters

• api: politicians, corporations, model_bills, task_forces
• method: get (for a single item) or getList (for multiple items)
• .format: .xml or .json

Required GET paramaters

• apikey Your personal API Key (get one here)

Responses

Error Codes

• 0 Invalid URL paramaters
• 1 No results returned
• 2 More than 1 result returned using get function, use getList instead