Happy birthday, Congress!

birthdays.py

import datetime
import sys

import icalendar
import requests

SUNLIGHT_KEY = sys.argv[1]

URL = 'https://congress.api.sunlightfoundation.com/legislators'
FIELDS = ('title', 'first_name', 'nickname', 'last_name',
          'name_suffix', 'birthday', 'party', 'state', 'district')
PARAMS = {
    'apikey': SUNLIGHT_KEY,
    'per_page': 'all',
    'fields': ','.join(FIELDS),
}


def parse_date(s):
    return datetime.datetime.strptime(s, '%Y-%m-%d')


resp = requests.get(URL, params=PARAMS)
data = resp.json()

cal = icalendar.Calendar()

for moc in data['results']:
    
    event = icalendar.Event()
    
    summary = "%s. %s %s (%s-%s)" % (moc['title'], moc['first_name'],
                                     moc['last_name'], moc['party'], moc['state'])
    
    bday_start = parse_date(moc['birthday'])
    bday_end = bday_start + datetime.timedelta(days=1)
    
    event.add('summary', summary)
    event.add('dtstart', bday_start.date())
    # event.add('dtend', bday_end)
    event.add('rrule', {'freq': 'yearly'})
    
    cal.add_component(event)

sys.stdout.write(cal.to_ical())