senate_contacts.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Update current senator's website and address from www.senate.gov.

import lxml.etree, io
import string, re
from datetime import datetime
import utils
from utils import download, load_data, save_data, parse_date

def run():

	today = datetime.now().date()

	# default to not caching
	cache = utils.flags().get('cache', False)
	force = not cache

	y = load_data("legislators-current.yaml")

	# Map bioguide IDs to dicts. Reference the same dicts
	# in y so we are updating y when we update biogiude.
	bioguide = { }
	by_name = { }
	for m in y:
		if "bioguide" in m["id"]:
			bioguide[m["id"]["bioguide"]] = m
		party = m["terms"][-1]["party"][0]
		state = m["terms"][-1]["state"]
		last_name = m["name"]["last"]
		member_full = "%s (%s-%s)" % (last_name, party, state)
		by_name[member_full] = m


	print("Fetching general Senate information from senators_cfm.xml...")

	url = "http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.xml"
	body = download(url, "legislators/senate.xml", force)
	dom = lxml.etree.parse(io.BytesIO(body.encode("utf8"))) # file has an <?xml declaration and so must be parsed as a bytes array
	for node in dom.xpath("member"):
		bioguide_id = str(node.xpath("string(bioguide_id)")).strip()
		member_full = node.xpath("string(member_full)")

		if bioguide_id == "":
			print("Someone has an empty bioguide ID!")
			print(lxml.etree.tostring(node))
			continue

		print("[%s] Processing Senator %s..." % (bioguide_id, member_full))

		# find member record in our YAML, either by bioguide_id or member_full
		if bioguide_id in bioguide:
			member = bioguide[bioguide_id]
		else:
			if member_full in by_name:
				member = by_name[member_full]
			else:
				print("Bioguide ID '%s' and full name '%s' not recognized." % (bioguide_id, member_full))
				exit(0)

		try:
			term = member["terms"][-1]
		except IndexError:
			print("Member has no terms", bioguide_id, member_full)
			continue

		if today < parse_date(term["start"]) or today > parse_date(term["end"]):
			print("Member's last listed term is not current", bioguide_id, member_full, term["start"])
			continue

		if term["type"] != "sen":
			print("Member's last listed term is not a Senate term", bioguide_id, member_full)
			continue


		if term["state"] != str(node.xpath("string(state)")):
			print("Member's last listed term has the wrong state", bioguide_id, member_full)
			continue

		if "district" in term: del term["district"]

		full_name = str(node.xpath("string(first_name)"))
		suffix = None
		if ", " in full_name: full_name, suffix = full_name.split(", ")
		full_name += " " + str(node.xpath("string(last_name)"))
		if suffix: full_name += ", " + suffix
		member["name"]["official_full"] = full_name

		member["id"]["bioguide"] = bioguide_id

		term["class"] = { "Class I": 1, "Class II": 2, "Class III": 3}[ node.xpath("string(class)") ]
		term["party"] = { "D": "Democrat", "R": "Republican", "I": "Independent", "ID": "Independent"}[ node.xpath("string(party)") ]

		url = str(node.xpath("string(website)")).strip()

		# kill trailing slashes and force hostname to lowercase since around December 2013 they started uppercasing "Senate.gov"
		url = re.sub("/$", "", url).replace(".Senate.gov", ".senate.gov")

		if not url.startswith("/"): term["url"] = url # temporary home pages for new senators
		term["address"] = str(node.xpath("string(address)")).strip().replace("\n      ", " ")
		term["office"] = string.capwords(term["address"].upper().split(" WASHINGTON ")[0])

		phone = str(node.xpath("string(phone)")).strip()
		term["phone"] = phone.replace("(", "").replace(")", "").replace(" ", "-")

		#contact_form = str(node.xpath("string(email)")).strip().replace(".Senate.gov", ".senate.gov")
		#if contact_form: # can be blank
		#	term["contact_form"] = contact_form



	print("\n\nUpdating Senate stateRank and LIS ID from cvc_member_data.xml...")

	url = "http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS_MEMBER/cvc_member_data.xml"
	body = download(url, "legislators/senate_cvc.xml", force)
	dom = lxml.etree.parse(io.StringIO(body))
	for node in dom.getroot():
		if node.tag == "lastUpdate":
			date, time = node.getchildren()
			print("Last updated: %s, %s" % (date.text, time.text))
			continue

		bioguide_id = str(node.xpath("string(bioguideId)")).strip()
		if bioguide_id == "":
			print("Someone has an empty bioguide ID!")
			print(lxml.etree.tostring(node))
			continue

		last_name = node.xpath("string(name/last)")
		party = node.xpath("string(party)")
		state = node.xpath("string(state)")
		member_full = "%s (%s-%s)" % (last_name, party, state)

		print("[%s] Processing Senator %s..." % (bioguide_id, member_full))

		# find member record in our YAML, either by bioguide_id or member_full
		if bioguide_id in bioguide:
			member = bioguide[bioguide_id]
		else:
			if member_full in by_name:
				member = by_name[member_full]
			else:
				print("Bioguide ID '%s' and synthesized official name '%s' not recognized." % (bioguide_id, member_full))
				exit(0)

		try:
			term = member["terms"][-1]
		except IndexError:
			print("Member has no terms", bioguide_id, member_full)
			continue

		if "id" not in member:
			member["id"] = {}

		member["id"]["lis"] = node.attrib["lis_member_id"]
		state_rank = node.xpath("string(stateRank)")
		if state_rank == '1':
			term["state_rank"] = "senior"
		elif state_rank == '2':
			term["state_rank"] = "junior"


	print("Saving data...")
	save_data(y, "legislators-current.yaml")

if __name__ == '__main__':
  run()