us_congress_social.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Use https://github.com/unitedstates/ data to get JSON for current members of
# congress including their social media accounts.
#
# Note: you will need to pip install requests and pyyaml

import json
import yaml
import requests

def main():
    print(json.dumps(get_people(), indent=2))

def get_people():
    people = {}

    for person in get("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators/main/legislators-current.yaml"):
        person['social'] = None
        people[person['id']['bioguide']] = person

    # join social media data
    for social in get("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators/main/legislators-social-media.yaml"):
        people[social['id']['bioguide']]['social'] = social['social']

    return list(people.values())

def get(url):
    """Fetch and parse some YAML.
    """
    return yaml.safe_load(requests.get(url).text)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()