Aus Bills

🇦🇺 This is a package is for obtaining parliament bills for Australian governments.

Install via pip3

pip3 install ausbills

Usage

All parliaments' extractors must use the same output template, which can be found here.

Most parliaments host their bills online in 2 forms:

1. A table with a small amount of data about each bill

   

2. Individual pages with all the info for a given bill.

   

ausbills gives you access to all of this information.

To get all the current bills from a parliament, follow this template. The ACT parliament is used here for example purposes, all parliaments follow the same rules:

# First, we'll import the functions we need:
from ausbills.parliament.act import get_bills_metadata, get_bill

get_bills_metadata is the function which returns the list of bills with whatever metadata is present on the list web page.

# Let's print out the list of current bills in the ACT:
print(get_bills_metadata())

This is nice, but we can see from the previous screenshots that there is more data that can be obtained, which can be done by using the get_bill function's dict or JSON return functions:

# Get the full metadata from a random ACT bill:
import random

random_bill = random.choice(get_bills_metadata())

print(get_bill(random_bill).asDict())

We could construct a JSON structure for all the bills in the list with all their metadata like ths:

import json

all_bills = get_bills_metadata()
bill_meta_list = [get_bill(_bill).asDict() for _bill in all_bills]

print(json.dumps(bill_meta_list, indent=2))

See this example for an implementation of this demo for the WA parliament.

Contributing

Read CONTRIBUTING.md