Download all members of Congress from ProPublica's Represent API

download.py

import csv
from congress import Congress

REPRESENT_API_KEY = '<API KEY>'
congress = Congress(REPRESENT_API_KEY)
house = list(congress.members.filter("house")[0]['members'])
reps = [m for m in house if m['title'] == 'Representative']
in_office = [m for m in reps if m['in_office'] is True]
outpath = "members.csv"
print("Writing {} members to {}".format(len(in_office), outpath))
with open(outpath, "w") as fp:
    writer = csv.DictWriter(fp, fieldnames=in_office[0].keys())
    writer.writeheader()
    writer.writerows(in_office)