tweedekamer 0.0.2b1

A package to download Dutch parliament debates and subtitles

tweedekamer

A pypi package for retrieving Dutch parliamentary debate data.

Using this package you can download Dutch parliament debates and subtitles. It is based on the website https://debatgemist.tweedekamer.nl. This package is not affiliated with the Dutch parliament. It is not allowed to use this package for commercial purposes.\n This package is still in beta, so expect bugs and missing features.

Installation

Install this package through pip. The package requires Python >=3.7.9

  pip install tweedekamer

Usage/Examples

Retrieving subtitles

from tweedekamer import Debate, Search

results = Search().getDebates("belasting 2022", limit=1)
results[0].subtitle.text

Retrieving video link

from tweedekamer import Debate, Search

results = Search().getDebates("belasting 2022", limit=1)
results[0].video.link

Features

• Retrieve date and info on debate
• Search debates by query, date range, and debate type
• Retrieve subtitle data
• Retrieve video data

Run Locally

Use these instructions if you want to edit the package locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/micheldore/tweedekamer

Go to the project directory

  cd tweedekamer

Create the virtual environment (using Python 3)

  python -m venv env
  source env/bin/activate

Install dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt

If you want to install the local version of the package

  python -m pip install -e .