Library for interacting with the National Institute on Money in State Politics API
Project description
A Python library for interacting with the National Institute on Money in State Politics API <http://www.followthemoney.org/services/index.phtml>.
Released under a BSD-style license (see the LICENSE files for details).
python-fiftystates is a project of Sunlight Labs (c) 2010. Written by Michael Stephens <mstephens@sunlightfoundation.com>.
Source: http://github.com/mikejs/python-nimsp
Installation
To install from PyPI run
pip install nimsp
or
easy_install nimsp
To install from a source package run
python setup.py install
Example Usage
>>> from nimsp import nimsp >>> nimsp.apikey = 'YOUR_API_KEY' >>> corte = nimsp.candidates.list(state='tx', year=2008, candidate_name='Corte Jr, Frank')[0] >>> print "$%d" % corte.total_dollars $287372 >>> print corte.candidate_status Won
