abgeordnetenwatch-python 0.1.0

Fetch questions and answers from german politicians via python classes.

abgeordnetenwatch-python

Siehe hier für die deutsche Anleitung.

Small utility programs to use the abgeordnetenwatch-api in python.

Installation

To use this script, install python3 and pip.

Install requirements with

pip install .

Usage

You can download all questions and answers from a politician with the following script:

# -v for verbose output
load_questions_answers --firstname "Angela" --lastname "Merkel"

# for more options
load_questions_answers --help

This will create a file data/json/079137_Angela_Merkel.json with all questions and answers of the specified person.

Converting to txt files

To convert json files to txt, do the following:

convert_qa data/json data/txt txt

# convert to csv
convert_qa data/json data/csv csv

This will create a file data/txt/079137_Angela_Merkel.txt (for all files in data/json).

Load Parliament

To fetch all questions and answers from all politicians from a parliament, you can do the following:

# load "bundestag" using 16 requests simulaneously
load_parliament_qa bundestag -t 16

# for more options
load_parliament_qa --help