imclab / jquery-findyourrep

A basic jQuery plugin for finding out who represents you in federal and state legislatures

Find Your Rep Widget

A Basic jQuery plugin that renders a form into the specified target, geocoding input and displaying results from Sunlight's Congress and Open States APIs.

Usage:

1. Link jQuery and dist/jquery.findyourrep-pack.min.js on your page (in that order).
2. Call findYourRep() on an element:

    $('.myDiv').findYourRep({
        apikey: 'your-key'
    });

Options:

Passed as a javascript object to the constructor, just like any jQ plugin.

• apikey: Your Sunlight Labs API key (required)
• apis: A comma-delimited list of apis to query.
  For U.S. Congress only, use apis: 'congress'
  For U.S. and State Legislatures, use apis: 'congress, openstates'
  Default is 'congress, openstates'.
• title: The title of the widget. Default is 'Find Your Representatives'
• text: The text that displays above the textarea for the user's address.
  Default is 'Enter your address to see who represents you.'
• action: The text of the button that finds your reps. Default is 'Go!'

Default Styles:

There's an included stylesheet which you can add to your page to add some basic style.

By default, all CSS is scoped to a container classname, .fyr-container. There's a scss source file available in the src/css folder which you can edit to add your own style.

Screenshots:

Caveats

• The Open States API does not support HTTPS, so queries to it will not be made when the embedding page is viewed securely.

Contributing:

1. Fork this repo
2. Install Node.js if you don't have it
3. Run npm install && bower install && grunt demo
4. Commit your changes and send a pull request

License:

BSD3