Senate and House Stock watcher Python3 data listing

collect.py

import requests, json, datetime

# This function will grab the data from house/senate stockwatcher and return an array
# of dictonary items that represent transactions
def fetch_data():
  response = requests.get("https://senate-stock-watcher-data.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/aggregate/all_transactions.json")
  # response = requests.get("https://house-stock-watcher-data.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/data/all_transactions.json")
  
  if response.status_code != 200:
    print("request failed.")
    return False

  data = response.json()
  data.sort(key = lambda x: datetime.datetime.strptime(x['disclosure_date'], '%m/%d/%Y'), reverse=True)
  return data

print(fetch_data())