This microservice works in companion with the REPresent application, providing a contact point to API services to gather information on United States representatives, senators, bills, votes and news articles.
- Click "Fork" in the upper right hand corner of the page
- Follow instructions below:
git clone git@github.com:YOUR_USER_NAME_HERE/represent-sinatra.git
cd represent-sinatra
- bundle install
- bundle update
To set up the service, you'll need API keys from Propublica and NewsAPI. In order to set up the API keys, you'll need to run:
bundle exec figaro install
Once it has successfully run, you'll need to access the config/application.yml file. Inside the file, post the two keys like so:
PROPUBLICA_API_KEY: <YOUR_KEY_HERE>
NEWS_API_KEY: <YOUR_KEY_HERE>
You should then be able to run the service locally using localhost:4567
The '/bills' endpoint is very call-intensive on the Propublica API, because of the amount of data it collects. Use sparingly, as it is easy to rate-limit your API key with it. It will also take some time to run, thanks to the amount of calls.
- Ruby
- Sinatra
- Antonio Jackson (https://github.com/AntonioJacksonII)
- Rostam Mahabadi (https://github.com/Rostammahabadi)
- Derek Borski (https://github.com/dborski)
- Alex Pariseau (https://github.com/arpariseau)