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Get all your state/fed reps by address
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import requests | |
openstates_t = 'http://openstates.org/api/v1/legislators/geo/?lat={lat}&long={long}' | |
sunlight_t = 'https://congress.api.sunlightfoundation.com/legislators/locate?latitude={lat}&longitude={long}' | |
geocoding_t = 'https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/locations/onelineaddress?address={address}&benchmark=9&format=json' | |
def get_coordinates(address): | |
url = geocoding_t.format(address=address) | |
x, y = requests.get(url).json().get('result').get('addressMatches')[0].get('coordinates').values() | |
return x, y | |
def search(address: str): | |
""" | |
Return all the legislators you got, based on address. | |
""" | |
lat, long = get_coordinates(address) | |
url = openstates_t.format(lat=lat, long=long) | |
state_reps = requests.get(url).json() | |
url = sunlight_t.format(lat=lat, long=long) | |
federal_reps = requests.get(url).json().get('results') | |
return {'state': state_reps, 'federal': federal_reps} | |
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