albionx / argentina-congress-data-downloader

Script that downloads a few datasets from the Camara de Diputados de la Nacion Argentina

Argentina Congress Data Downloader

This script automatically retrieves the following datasets from the House of Representatives in Argentina:

1. COVID19 Subsidies
2. Laws
3. House of Representatives Sessions (Diputados)
4. List of Representatives (Diputados)

Features

• The script automatically creates a SQLite database and allows for downloading any of the above datasets
• Support for API pagination
• Data schema detection. Tables are created dynamically following the specifications in the JSON API.

Known limitations

• The script will not work if the resource handlers in the Open Data government website change. Updating them on the script is trivial.

argentina-congress-data-downloader's Issues

Code improvements

• Cleanup the URL resources I used either with .close() or using a WITH statement
• Change the While True loop to use a semantically useful sentinel variable instead, for clarity
• Avoid the collapsing of the namespace with the resourcePathCursor variable by using another local variable instead
• Keyword parameters in the .format function instead of relying on the order of arguments