GitHub API for downloading Congress data in bulk instead of using govtrack, govinfo, or other websites.
Every day, we compile all the types of data from Hear-Ye/congress into a ZIP file. The zip file are stored in GitHub release assets. The GitHub tag format is in the format of YEAR-MONTH-DAY (e.g. 2020-01-01).
The zip file url format is: https://github.com/Hear-Ye/congress-data/releases/download/2021-07-06/votes.zip
To get the latest release, there's an API endpoint that gives you information: https://api.github.com/repos/Hear-Ye/congress-data/releases/latest
We use GitHub Pages so that you can download any individual piece of data using a simple url that follows this git repository's directory format. You can grab any individual piece of data by following the format:
http://congress-data.hearye.us/data/101/votes/1989/s1/data.json
Note: https is also allowed. We do not force http so that data
transmission is faster.
Created on 6 July 2020 for Hear Ye backend developers. This repository is also designed to be a safe place to download bulk data from the GitHub API as a reliable source rather than the govtrack or govinfo websites.
This data was gathered from the congress.gov website using the unitedstates/congress repository (we technically use a port at Hear-Ye/congress)
The data of this project itself is licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal license (which can be found in the LICENSE file), and the underlying source code used to update the data is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license (which can be found in the LICENSE-CODE file).