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Unskilledcrab / Polysense

Making the political world easy to understand
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Politician Scraping #39

Closed Unskilledcrab closed 3 years ago

Unskilledcrab commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. We will need information about politicians that is up to date.

Describe the solution you'd like Research and find a website that we can scrap for up to date information about politicians. Look for things like

Describe alternatives you've considered N/A

Additional context This is a fundamental part of the application

Unskilledcrab commented 3 years ago

Looking into the politicians

tron5389 commented 3 years ago

https://ballotpedia.org/Lamar_Alexander https://www.govtrack.us/how-to-use

I think these are the best 2 sites we need to use for collecting data on politicians. There isnt a whole lot of organized information out there as it seems from research that much of this is done by hand.

tron5389 commented 3 years ago

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/current This is where I think we can start pulling info for all of the legislators

tron5389 commented 3 years ago

The issues as they corresbond to ballot measures: https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_ballot_measures_by_topic

tron5389 commented 3 years ago

Lifetime voting records of members in current US Congress: https://ballotpedia.org/Lifetime_voting_records_of_United_States_Senators_and_Representatives

tron5389 commented 3 years ago

image Something to note about using gov track

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