mekinney / CongressAPI

.NET portable class library providing access to the Sunlight Congress API (sunlightlabs.github.io/congress).

CongressAPI.NET

This project wraps the Sunlight Foundation's Congress API with a strongly typed asyncronous .NET portable class library.

Sample Usage

using CongressAPI;
using CongressAPI.Model;

var CongressAPI = new CongressAPIRestClient("Enter your sunlight API Key Here");

List<string> fieldList = new List<string> { "bill_id", "official_title","short_title","keywords","sponsor","sponsor_id","bill","titles" };
List<SortSpec> sortList = new List<SortSpec> { new SortSpec("sponsor_id", SortDirection.asc) } ;
List<FilterSpec> filterList = new List<FilterSpec> { new FilterSpec("sponsor_id", new List<string> { "L000585", "C001047" }, FilterOperator.oneof)} ;

var b = await CongressAPI.GetBillsPageAsync(fieldList, sortList, filterList);
Console.WriteLine("After GetBills Count: {0}", b.Results.Count() );

API Key

When enhancing / debugging this library, the unit tests expect the Sunlight API token to be located in CongressAPI.Tests/Support/api_token.private.

To register for an API key, if you don't have one, please fill out the form here.

Contribute

Contributions to this library are always welcome. Please participate via github.