List MP email addresses

commons_email.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# quick script to iterate through the parliament contact API and outputs email details
# in the from "name,party,email" for each current Commons member

import sys
import json
import requests
import re

house = "1" # 1=commons 2=lords
member_api_url = "https://members-api.parliament.uk/api"
house_list = "/Members/Search?House=" + house + "&IsCurrentMember=true&take=20"
guess_email = False

new_results = True
skip=0
while new_results:
    member_json = requests.get(member_api_url + house_list + f"&skip={skip}").json()
    if len(member_json["items"])>0:
        skip += 20
    else:
        new_results = False
    for i in member_json["items"]:
        memberdetails = i["value"]["nameDisplayAs"]
        memberdetails += "," + i["value"]["latestParty"]["name"]
        if i["links"]:
            for j in i["links"]:
                if j["rel"] == "contactInformation":
                    contact_json = requests.get(member_api_url + j["href"]).json()
                    email_p = ""
                    email_c = ""
                    email_e = ""
                    for k in contact_json["value"]:
                        if k["type"].lower() == "parliamentary office":
                            if "email" in k:
                                email_p = k["email"]
                        if k["type"].lower() == "parliamentary":
                            if "email" in k:
                                email_p = k["email"]
                        if k["type"].lower() == "constituency office":
                            if "email" in k:
                                email_c = k["email"]
                        if k["type"].lower() == "external or private office":
                            if "email" in k:
                                email_e = k["email"]
                    if email_p:
                        memberdetails += "," + email_p
                    else:
                        if email_c:
                            memberdetails += "," + email_c
                        else:
                            if email_e:
                                memberdetails += "," + email_e
                            else:
                                memberdetails += ",none"
            ## we make a guess at Lords email addresses if not published
            if guess_email and house=="2" and "[email protected]" or ",none" in memberdetails:
                for j in i["links"]:
                    if j["rel"] == "synopsis":
                        synopsis_json =  requests.get(member_api_url + j["href"]).json()
                        p = re.compile("name is (.*), and") ## do you even API?
                        extract_name = p.search(synopsis_json["value"])
                        bname = extract_name.group(1)
                        firstinitial = bname[0][0].lower()
                        bname_split = bname.split()
                        surname = bname_split[-1].lower()
                        guessed_email = surname + firstinitial + "@parliament.uk"
                        if "[email protected]" in memberdetails:
                            memberdetails = memberdetails.replace("[email protected]",guessed_email)
                        else:
                            memberdetails = memberdetails.replace("none",guessed_email)
        sys.stdout.write( memberdetails + "\n")
sys.exit(0)