EveryPolitician compilation

[jpmckinney]

Auto-generate compilations of EveryPolitician data on Heroku.

1. Subscribe to a hook on EveryPolitician to be notified any time there's a data change
2. Iterate through the legislatures
3. Build a master names file and/or terms file
4. Store it somewhere (e.g. in a GitHub Pages repo)

For this, https://github.com/everypolitician/everypolitician-writeinpublic is a good template.

[davewhiteland]

Hi @jpmckinney heads up that as part of the job of documenting the way we support this, I'm going to be attempting to knock such a thing together; working on it now

[jpmckinney]

I had thrown something together at https://github.com/influencemapping/whos_got_dirt-json_file_api but it's search mechanism is terrible: influencemapping/whos_got_dirt-json_file_api#1

[jpmckinney]

Oops, sorry, I thought this was a different issue! Nevermind.

[davewhiteland]

A names.csv exists for you now, @jpmckinney

https://everypolitician.github.io/everypolitician-names/names.csv (warning: big file!) is being regenerated whenever EveryPolitician data changes.

Under the hood: https://github.com/everypolitician/everypolitician-names is making that file in its own gh_pages branch, subscribed to EveryPolitician's "hey-data-has-changed" webhook.

[jpmckinney]

Awesome, thanks!

[jpmckinney]

Done. Adding API handlers for EveryPolitician is covered in #3.