print-twitter-usernames.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# This script should print out all the Twitter username for the
# current representatives for a particular country's lower house
# (Ecuador in this example, but it's easy to change). This should
# work on Python 2.7 and Python 3.

from __future__ import print_function, unicode_literals

from everypolitician import EveryPolitician

country_name = 'Ecuador' # or try 'Canada', 'UK', etc.

ep = EveryPolitician()

lower_house = ep.country(country_name).lower_house()

data = lower_house.popolo()

latest_term = sorted(
    (e for e in data.events if e.classification == 'legislative period'),
    key=lambda e: e.start_date
)[-1]

for m in data.memberships:
    if m.legislative_period_id != latest_term.id:
        continue
    person = m.person
    twitter_username = person.twitter
    print(twitter_username or '?')

requirements.txt

approx-dates==0.0.1
everypolitician==0.0.12
everypolitician-popolo==0.0.10
requests==2.11.1
six==1.10.0