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JosiahParry / opensecrets

An OpenSecrets API wrapper for R

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Open JosiahParry opened 5 years ago

JosiahParry commented 5 years ago

earmarks https://www.opensecrets.org/earmarks/
presidential candidate ids - i.e. N00042308 is andrew yang (only know from googling)
generic search capability (i.e. findng yang's cid)
get_candidates endpoint?
return more than top 5-10 obs.

JosiahParry commented 5 years ago

get_candidates endpoint:
- https://www.opensecrets.org/races as an end point would be great. There is more available data via this than there is in the api.
- I can use https://www.opensecrets.org/races/candidate_search_results?state=&q=chris URL structure as a way to create this as a scraper