Hacky YNMP script to find Green Party candidates in Scotland

gistfile1.py

import time
import requests

'''
Check for Green Party candidates in Scotland (they are probably
supposed to be Scottish Green Party candidates)
'''


r = requests.get('http://mapit.mysociety.org/areas/WMC')
j = r.json()

scottish_ids = [id_ for id_, val in j.items() if val['country_name'] == 'Scotland']

tmpl = 'http://yournextmp.popit.mysociety.org/api/v0.1/posts/%s?embed=membership.person'

# Fetch all the data
data = []
for constituency_id in scottish_ids:
    time.sleep(0.5)
    r = requests.get(tmpl % constituency_id)
    data.append(r.json())

# Search for Green Party instances
for constituency in data:
    for candidate in constituency['result']['memberships']:
        parties = [party['name'] for party in candidate['person_id']['party_memberships'].values()]
        if 'Green Party' in parties:
            print "Looks like there might be a problem in %s" % constituency['result']['area']['id']