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These are some of the key repos in the EveryPolitician family. There are others.

• everypolitician (this repo): contains no code, but is where issues/tickets for the whole project live

• everypolitician-data: where the data is stored -- but if you want to download it, get it from:

  • human? go via the EveryPolitician website
  • program? use the RawGit CDN, via links in countries.json, which we explain here

• viewer-static: the live website http://everypolitician.org (gh-pages)

• viewer-sinatra: Sinatra app for generating a dynamic version EveryPolitician website

• webhook-manager: sends out EveryPolitician WebHooks: register your URL here!

• everypolitician-docs: documentation at http://docs.everypolitician.org/ (gh-pages)

• rebuilder rebuilds data from source

• libraries for easily manipulating EveryPolitician data (useful for all devs, but we use the Ruby ones ourselves, of course!):

  • Ruby: everypolitician-ruby and everypolitician-popolo.
  • Python: everypolitician and everypolitician-popolo

• handy gems we use when getting the data: wikidata-fetcher, wikisnakker, twitter_username_extractor, facebook_username_extractor, twitter_list, scraped_page_archive

• gender-balance: repo for the Gender Balance website that crowdsources gender data for EveryPolitician

• data_pr_change_summarizer: code used by the bot to review a data PR and leave a helpful summary as a comment

The repos for many of our scrapers are kept separately in github.com/everypolitician-scrapers.

The EveryPolitician bot's own page is a good jumping-off point to lots of semi-technical explanations of what's going on (it has its own blog on Medium). For example:

• how the website is built (spoiler: viewer-sinatra → viewer-static)
• how webhooks are used (you can easily register your app!)
• how the scrapers run (many live on morph.io)

The bot is on twitter as @everypolitician

If you have data for us, or know where to get it, please read our page about how to contribute.

EveryPolitician is a mySociety project.