Introduction

Our Voice USA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisian organization for civic education. We are writing tools to engage everyday citizens with the political process by providing easy access to civic information that's relevant to the individual.

Features

This is where we write scripts to call 3rd party APIs and store the data locally in redis. Data is used by the civic-broker server.

Development Setup

Start by configuring the .env file:

cat << EOF > .env
export REDIS_HOST=localhost
export REDIS_PORT=6379
export USTERM=115
export ELECTION_YEAR=2018
export API_KEY_FEC=<YOUR KEY>
export API_KEY_OPENSTATES=<YOUR KEY>
export DEBUG=1
EOF

Then, install dependancies with npm install, source in the configuration with source .env, and run npm start.

• The API_KEY_FEC is obtained here: https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/
• The API_KEY_OPENSTATES is obtained here: https://openstates.org/api/register/

NOTE: At the time of this writing, the tool versions are as follows:

$ npm -v
5.6.0
$ node -v
v8.11.3

Contributing

Thank you for your interest in contributing to us! To avoid potential legal headaches please sign our CLA (Contributors License Agreement). We handle this via pull request hooks on GitHub provided by https://cla-assistant.io/

License

While most of our stuff is GPL, this repostiroy is released under the MIT License so you can use these functions without having to worry about compliance issues. We hope you find utility here.

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