Lawmakers Manager

A bunch of scripts that run on CRON jobs that populate the database(s) that store the basic legislator info for TownHallProject.

Dev Deployment Setup:

1. Go to: https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/
2. Click: "Add project" and fill out details
3. In the upper left of the page, under the "Develop" tab, click: "Database"
4. Click: "Create database"
5. Ensure that "Start in locked mode" is checked
6. Which server location doesn't matter so simply click: "Done"
7. Near the top of the page, click: "Cloud Firestore"
8. In the opened modal, click: "Realtime Database"
9. Click on the bar containing the database url and add "states" to the end, (it should look like https://your_project_id.firebaseio.com/states)
10. On the far right, click on the vertical triple dots icon
11. Click: "Import JSON"
12. Click: "Browse"
13. From this repository, select the data/supported-states.json file for upload.
14. In the upper left, to the right of the "Project Overview" text, click the cog icon
15. In the opened modal, click: "Project settings"
16. Click: "Service accounts"
17. Click: "Generate new private key"
18. Go to: https://www.propublica.org/datastore/api/propublica-congress-api
19. On the right, fill out the "Request an API key" form and click: "Submit"
20. Go to: https://openstates.org/api/register/
21. Fill out the "Register for an API Key" form and click: "Submit"
22. Once you have received API keys from Propublica and Open States, create a file at the top level of this repository called .env
23. Open the private key file you downloaded from firebase in step ten
24. In the .env file, copy and paste the details from the Firebase private key in the following format:

TESTING_FIREBASE_TOKEN='{your firebase private_key}'  # A long string that begins with "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY ..."
TESTING_PROJECT_ID='your firebase project_id'
TESTING_CLIENT_EMAIL='{your firebase client_email}'
TESTING_DATABASE_URL='https://{your firebase project_id}.firebaseio.com/'
PROPUBLICA='{your propublica api key}'  # A forty character long alphanumeric string
OPEN_STATES_API_KEY='your open states api key'  # A forty character long alphanumeric string

Assuming you have node.js installed:

25. Run npm i
26. Run node bin/seed-federal-db-from-propublica.js
27. Run node openstates/get-state-lawmakers.js