DavidBarrick/congress-scraper

Public domain code that collects data about bills from the U.S. Congress.

This code has been ported to NodeJS from the unitedstates/congress project.

1. Install package dependencies

npm install

2. Install Serverless Framework

npm install -g serverless

3. Setup Serverless Framework With AWS Credentials https://www.serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/aws/guide/credentials/

4. Deploy service

sls deploy

5. Run bill fetcher

sls invoke -f fetchBills

This will start the download process. All XML and JSON data will be in an S3 bucket with a name starting with "congress-"