A Django app to download IRS 527 filings and load them into a database
Project description
A Django app for downloading and parsing IRS campaign finance data, inspired by the [New York Times Fech library](https://github.com/NYTimes/Fech).
[](https://travis-ci.org/sahilchinoy/django-irs-filings)
Background
Some political committees report their contributions and expenditures to the IRS under § 527 of the U.S. tax code. The IRS publishes these disclosure forms as a bulk download. This app attempts to make sense of that bulk export.
The [archive](http://forms.irs.gov/app/pod/dataDownload/dataDownload) is updated every Sunday at 1:00 AM.
Getting started
Install django-irs-filings as an app in a Django project.
`bash $ pip install django-irs-filings `
Add irs to your list of INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py.
`bash $ vim project/settings.py `
Migrate your database.
`bash $ python manage.py migrate `
Finally, call the load command. This will download the latest zipped archive from the IRS website, unzip and parse it, and insert it into the database.
`bash $ python manage.py load `
Download files
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