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A quick script to grab many of the elected officials for Allegheny County from Google's Civic Info API
from apiclient.discovery import build
import csv
import os
service = build('civicinfo', 'v2',
developerKey=os.environ['API_KEY'])
r = service.representatives()
d = service.divisions()
def format_address(address):
line1 = address["line1"] + ", "
if "line2" in address:
line2 = address["line2"] + ", "
else:
line2 = ""
city = address["city"]
state = address["state"]
zip = address["zip"]
return "{0}{1}{2}, {3} {4}".format(line1, line2, city, state, zip)
divisions = [
("ocd-division/country:us", False),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa", False),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/cd:14", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/cd:18", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/cd:12", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldu:37", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldu:38", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldu:42", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldu:43", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldu:45", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:16", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:19", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:20", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:21", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:23", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:24", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:25", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:27", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:28", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:30", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:32", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:33", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:34", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:35", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:36", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:38", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:39", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:40", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:42", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:44", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:45", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:46", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/sldl:54", True),
("ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/county:allegheny", True)
]
# response = d.search(
# query = '"ocd-division/country:us/state:pa/county:allegheny"').execute()
# for div in response["results"]:
# divisions.append((div["ocdId"], True))
csv_results = [["office", "name", "address", "phone"]]
for d in divisions:
req = r.representativeInfoByDivision(ocdId=d[0], recursive=d[1])
response = req.execute()
if not "officials" in response:
continue
officials = response["officials"]
offices = response["offices"]
for office in offices:
officials_idxs = office["officialIndices"]
for i in officials_idxs:
output = []
output.append(office["name"])
official = officials[i]
output.append(official["name"])
if "address" in official:
output.append(format_address(official["address"][0]))
else:
output.append(None)
if "phones" in official:
output.append(official["phones"][0])
else:
output.append(None)
csv_results.append(output)
with open("output.csv", "wb") as f:
writer = csv.writer(f)
writer.writerows(csv_results)
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