Is the API permanently down?

[wannabeCitizen]

Am trying to use the Capitol-Words API for my PhD research. I haven't used it in roughly two years, but now the endpoints all are giving me no-response errors. The web page for registering an API key is down as well.

Are you still running this API?

[jsfenfen]

This project is one of several being transferred from sunlight to propublica, and things may be changing / experiencing mild breakage in the interim. @dwillis or @schwanksta might know more about what the plan is...

[dwillis]

Capitol Words will be the last of the Sunlight projects that we get up and running, and the plan is for it to be in place by January.

[dc3105]

Right in halfway of using Capitolwords for my thesis... is it inaccessible neither via python or R right now? Any way to get the data?

Thanks!

[dwillis]

@dc3105 It is inaccessible right now, unfortunately, but we are aiming to have the site, including the data, back up in January.

[jchaskell]

@dc3105 what do you need for your thesis? I might be able to help.

[mikemfleming]

@dwillis Have y'all been able to make any progress so far? I love this API and was going to use it for a project of mine. 😃

[dwillis]

@mikemfleming it's not back up yet, but we're working on it.

[bfdeitch]

@dwillis are you able to provide an updated ETA? We use this API as a fun programming project for students to learn about APIs as well as see all the funny things politicians say (e.g. a search for 'zucchini' turns up some pretty interesting exchanges). Thanks!

[mikemfleming]

RIP to one of the best APIs on the world wide web 😢

[ldparadise]

Just joining the chorus wondering if it's going to be back up soon, was going to do a workshop on using it sometime in the next few weeks for students

[mikemfleming]

@dwillis @schwanksta @drinks @bycoffe @jessykate @sbma44 @cweber @AlJohri hey just checking in on this again. don't want to pester y'all but is there a timeline on getting this API back up and running? thanks!

[dwillis]

@mikemfleming we've begun work on standing it up. i don't have a fixed date for you, but we want to get this done as soon as we can.

[mikemfleming]

@dwillis awesome, thank you! i was only worried that it had ceased to be.

[dwillis]

@mikemfleming bereft of life it is not.

[robertjallen]

unable to register

[jbohr2]

@dwillis any updates on when/whether Capital Words API will be up again?

[dwillis]

@jbohr2 We're actively working on it now and hope to have it back within a month.

[g1991]

@jbohr2 We're actively working on it now and hope to have it back within a month.

Hi @jbohr2 and @dwillis or @Schwanksta, just checking in here. Working on a research project that would be greatly helped by this. Any thoughts on the timeline?

[AlJohri]

@g1991 see: https://projects.propublica.org/capitol-words/ curl "https://projects.propublica.org/capitol-words/cwapi/count/?days_ago=30&q=immigration"

[mikemfleming]

@AlJohri awesome! does this mean it's back up again?

[dwillis]

It is back, but like the app itself it's not totally finished. We'll have an announcement when it's fully back to what it was, but you're free to explore it and let us know of any issues.

[Maiabrennerst]

Hi, I am trying the API with the example:

http://localhost:8000/cwapi/search/?content=russia&start_date=2017-03-01&end_date=2017-03-30&size=1

and I get the following error:

Exception Type: ValueError at /cwapi/search/ Exception Value: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)

Any idea on what am I doing wrong???

cwapi/term_counts_by_day works perfectly fine!

Thanks

[srnelson]

On the third anniversary of this issue, are there any updates to be had? Will Capitol Words be back as a service any time soon?