I ve spent a few days during work, after work and on the weekend working on
python-sunlight, a unified API implementation of a few Sunlight services.
This is very unstable, and not released yet (so please don t rely on it yet), but it will be shortly.
Be sure to sign up for an
API Key, and dump the key to
~/.sunlight.key there s a simple script to help with some of this in
bin/, but nothing solid yet.
I do, however, encourage you to use it and play around with it, and report your bugs.
Contributions (in the form of code) are also very welcome, so please do fork the project and play around with it.
Just to give everyone a taste of how cool this is this will pull up a list of twitter IDs of people who mention free market more then anyone else according to the congressional record:
from sunlight import capitolwords
from sunlight import congress
for person in capitolwords.phrases_by_entity(
"legislator",
phrase="free market",
sort="count",
):
n = congress.legislators( bioguide_id=person['legislator'],
all_legislators="true" )
if len(n) >= 1:
n = n[0]
if n['twitter_id'] != "":
print n['twitter_id']
And the output:
RepRonPaul
stevekingia
SenSherrodBrown
JacksonLeeTX18
SenatorLeahy
ChuckGrassley
SenJohnMcCain
OrrinHatch
DanaRohrabacher
JudgeTedPoe
McConnellPress
edtowns
SenatorDurbin
SenatorSessions
SenatorHarkin
SenChrisDodd
russfeingold
RosLehtinen
sencarllevin
senjonkyl
Dennis_Kucinich
senatorsanders
SenatorReid
RepDanBurton
RepMikePence
SenSamBrownback
joebiden
FrankPallone
ToddAkin
senatorboxer
RepTrentFranks
JohnCornyn
Have fun!
Show off what cha got, and please let me know if you do something cool!