Interesting to see them using ASP.NET MVC.
The Republican Party has an API
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Re: The Republican Party has an API
#12Instead of joking about it, you might find it interesting to actually go browse the available methods, as well as some of the examples. (Link to the examples page: http://www.gop.gov/aboutapi/documentation ) Take an honest look at, say, the Perl example. Then browse a few of the methods (on the right hand side) to see what they return. Although I don't find myself agreeing with the GOP on many issues, I am able to se…
I don't see how this is useful as long as it's politicized to GOP-members only...
Re: The Republican Party has an API
#13Instead of joking about it, you might find it interesting to actually go browse the available methods, as well as some of the examples. (Link to the examples page: http://www.gop.gov/aboutapi/documentation ) Take an honest look at, say, the Perl example. Then browse a few of the methods (on the right hand side) to see what they return. Although I don't find myself agreeing with the GOP on many issues, I am able to se…
I don't see how this is useful as long as it's politicized to GOP-members only...
You can keep tabs on what half the government is doing.
And there are honest-to-god Republican activists out there (check the comments with negative ratings on the bottom of social news sites) who want to know what their party is up to and keep it on task. Much like how others might want to know what the Obama administration or the Democratic caucus is up to.
All in all, I think it's pretty awesome. I hope the Democrats will follow suit, or that Congress will put up a general API. That would be even better.
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#15Did someone say republicans? I hate republicans so much, and this post looks like a perfect place to complain about them.
It's not.
Thanks for the tip. I was completely unaware of that when I wrote my original post.
That's why I posted a long political diatribe, rather than a short snarky emulation of people who use a post like this as an excuse to launch into long irrelevant political diatribes.
Re: The Republican Party has an API
#16Instead of joking about it, you might find it interesting to actually go browse the available methods, as well as some of the examples. (Link to the examples page: http://www.gop.gov/aboutapi/documentation ) Take an honest look at, say, the Perl example. Then browse a few of the methods (on the right hand side) to see what they return. Although I don't find myself agreeing with the GOP on many issues, I am able to se…
I like HN and the GOP. It’s good to see that there is some civility here to keep me from leaving.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't see how this is useful as long as it's politicized to GOP-members only...
You can keep tabs on what half the government is doing. And there are honest-to-god Republican activists out there (check the comments with negative ratings on the bottom of social news sites) who want to know what their party is up to and keep it on task. Much like how others might want to know what the Obama administration or the Democratic caucus is up to. All in all, I think it's pretty awesome. I hope the Democr…
You can keep tabs on what half the government claims they are doing. Without another, independent source, preferably also with an API, verification will be hard to do.
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#18Props to the Republicans for doing this; I'm a confirmed liberal Democrat but I don't mind seeing both parties pandering for the geek vote. :-)
Re: The Republican Party has an API
#19committee.members This method provides all Republican members of standing or subcommittees. I recognize that this is a party site, but I wonder how much additional work it would have been to capture the non-GOP members and votes. I can't think of a situation where I'd want to know just a fraction of the members of a subcommittee; I'd think if you care you'd care about everyone in it.
I hereby propose api.gov, where your fancy little JSON structures lets you decide what you think is relevant.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can keep tabs on what half the government is doing. And there are honest-to-god Republican activists out there (check the comments with negative ratings on the bottom of social news sites) who want to know what their party is up to and keep it on task. Much like how others might want to know what the Obama administration or the Democratic caucus is up to. All in all, I think it's pretty awesome. I hope the Democr…
You can keep tabs on what half the government claims they are doing. Without another, independent source, preferably also with an API, verification will be hard to do.
You obviously didn't look at the API. It's just factual information (comittees, voting history, etc.) about Republican congress members. Failing technical errors, that will be accurate.
I'm anything but a Republican, but I hate when there's a seriously cool effort made by the Republicans that everyone here immediately jumps into a negative tone and tries to find things wrong with it. That's even pettier than the stuff about trying to read policy into a robots.txt file. I'd love to see the parties battling each other out on information openness.