Scrapes house Representatives and Senators along with bills they sponsor from
http://www.leg.wa.gov/Senate/Senators/Pages/default.aspx and http://www.leg.wa.gov/house/representatives/Pages/default.aspx
Usage
- Install dependencies (requests, beautifulsoup, lxml)
pip install -r requirments.txt - Define the base url
base = 'http://www.leg.wa.gov' - Define the url for either house or senate
houseHref = base +'/House/Representatives/Pages/default.aspx'
senateHref = base +'/Senate/Senators/Pages/default.aspx'
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Define the position(this is for django implementation)
position = 'State House' -
Instantiate the scraper
house = ScrapeLeg(houseHref,base,'State House') -
Get scraping!
house.scrapeIt()