tobynott80 / find-my-mp-web

A website to gather information on a local MP (UK)

Find My Mp

Website to gather information on a local MP

Find My MP

Work In Progress

A simple flask app to wrap the parliament.uk API to show an MP's details based off a postcode. Also finds related Guardian articles (work in progress)

Running with Docker

1. Build the app from Dockerfile

   docker build app/ -t fmmp:latest

2. Run the app, supplying with The Guardian API key, exposing port 80

   docker run -p 80:80 -e GUARDIAN_KEY={key} -d fmmp:latest

   Note: Guardian API key not necessary for full functionality

3. Go to localhost

Running manually

1. Set Guardian API key as environment variable (Optional)

   Linux: $Export GUARDIAN_KEY="{key}"

   Powershell: $Env:GUARDIAN_KEY = "{key}"

   Note: Guardian API key not necessary for full functionality

2. Install PIP requirements

   pip install -r app/requirements.txt

3. Run app.py

   python3 app/app.py

Known Issues

• Guardian API returns unrelated articles for some MPs.
• Search Page can be slow to load - API limiting