#!/usr/bin/env python # Update current cspan IDs using NYT Congress API. import json, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error from utils import load_data, save_data def run(): # load in current members y = load_data("legislators-current.yaml") for m in y: # retrieve C-SPAN id, if available, from NYT API # TODO: use utils.download here response = urllib.request.urlopen("http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/svc/politics/v3/us/legislative/congress/members/%s.json" % m['id']['bioguide']).read() j = json.loads(response.decode("utf8")) cspan = j['results'][0]['cspan_id'] if not cspan == '': m['id']['cspan'] = int(cspan) save_data(y, "legislators-current.yaml") if __name__ == '__main__': run()