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Open Civic Data¶

The opencivicdata organization on Github is the home to a collaborative effort to define common schemas and provide tools for gathering information on government organizations, people, legislation, and events.

If you’re looking to contribute to the project or learn how to use the data, you’re in the right place.

  • Writing Scrapers
    • Getting Started Writing Scrapers
    • Creating a New Scraper
    • Writing a Person Scraper
    • Writing an Events Scraper
    • Writing a Bill Scraper
    • Running the Scraper
    • Submitting a Pull Request
    • Common tips for writing scrapers
  • Open Civic Data Formats
    • Adopting the OCD Specification
    • Data Types
    • Jurisdiction Objects
    • Division Objects
    • Person Objects
    • Organization Objects
    • Bill Objects
    • Vote Objects
    • Event Objects
    • OCD Identifiers
  • Style Guidelines
    • General
    • Open Civic Data Workflow
    • Python Code Guidelines
  • Open Civic Data Enhancement Proposals
    • OCDEP 1: Purpose and Guidelines
    • OCDEP 2: Division Identifiers
    • OCDEP 3: Jurisdictions
    • OCDEP 4: Events
    • OCDEP 5: People, Organizations, Posts, and Memberships
    • OCDEP 6: Bills
    • OCDEP 7: Votes
    • OCDEP 8: Division Identifier Governance
    • OCDEP 20: Elections
    • OCDEP 101: Standardize Usage of Dates & Times
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