OpenSecrets

Description

A Ruby wrapper around the OpenSecrets.org API.

You will need to have an OpenSecrets.org API key before you can use this library.

See the OpenSecrets API documentation.

This project was inspired by a project suggestion on the SunlightLabs.com website. If you would like to contribute or learn more please see https://sunlightfoundation.com/

Installation

gem install opensecrets

Usage

See examples/example.rb for more complete examples.

require 'rubygems'
require 'opensecrets'
require 'pp'

# Note, you can also provide your API key in an environment variable for security and convenience.
#   export OPENSECRETS_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY
# If you provide your key this way you do not have to provide a key in the OpenSecrets::*.new constructors.
# A key provided to the constructor overrides any environment variable that is set.

member = OpenSecrets::Member.new('YOUR OPEN SECRETS API KEY')
pp member.pfd({:cid => 'N00007360', :year => '2008'})["response"]

cand = OpenSecrets::Candidate.new('YOUR OPEN SECRETS API KEY')
pp cand.summary({:cid => 'N00007360'})["response"]

com = OpenSecrets::Committee.new('YOUR OPEN SECRETS API KEY')
pp com.by_industry({:cmte => 'HARM', :congno => '110', :indus => 'F10'})["response"]

Bug Reporting & Pull Requests

https://github.com/grempe/opensecrets/issues

Legal

Copyright

(c) 2009-2015 Glenn Rempe

License

Licensed under the MIT License; you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Warranty

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the LICENSE file for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Authors

Glenn Rempe
[email protected]
http://www.rempe.us
@grempe on Twitter