knesset-data

APIs and documentation to allow getting data about the Israeli Parliament (Knesset).

• Issues
• Contributing to knesset-data

Sub-projects

Data sources documentation

• documentation about the Knesset data sources
• We also track Knesset datasources bugs and known problems - see issues labeled "Knesset bug"

Knesset datapackage

• Provides downbladable package with all the Knesset data
• https://github.com/hasadna/knesset-data-datapackage

Low level Python API

• Provides methods to fetch and parse Knesset data using Python.
• https://github.com/hasadna/knesset-data-python
• Quickstart:

  $ pip install knesset-data
  python -c "from knesset_data.dataservice.committees import Committee\
  print(', '.join([committee.name for committee in Committee.get_all_active_committees()]))
  ועדת הכנסת, ועדת הכספים, ועדת הכלכלה, ועדת החוץ ...

Higher level Django module

• Store Knesset data in a structured DB and provides logic to handle the DB data.
• https://github.com/hasadna/knesset-data-django
• Quickstart: see the development guide

Known issues / FAQ / Common problems

• check each sub-project's README for FAQ specific to that project
• How to decide where to move existing code from open knesset?