billy

billy is a suite of tools developed as a part of Open States that provide a framework for scraping, storing, and sharing legislative information.

Features:

• Scraper architecture for scraping bills, votes, legislators, committees, and events.
• Utility scripts for data cleanup and analysis.
• Bulk data export.
• Server that includes a data browser and API.

Installation

billy is available on PyPI and can be installed via pip install billy

PyPI package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/billy

Source: https://github.com/sunlightlabs/billy/

Documentation: http://billy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/