README.md

Sample APIs

Setup

1. Make sure to install the python requests library, by entering pip3 install requests into the terminal
2. To make JSON output more readable in Sublime Text, follow the instructions here

FEC API

1. Take a look around at the FEC API documentation
2. Before running the FEC API script, you will need your own API key, which you can find here
3. Since you don't want to make your key public, add your key to your environment variables by typing export FECKEY='<your_key_here>' into the terminal
4. Run the following command in your terminal to see candidates who ran for office in Massachusetts in 2016:

python3 fecAPI.py

5. The script will also save the raw json results in a file called fec_api_results.json. To make these results more readable, follow the instructions in the Setup section above

Huffington Post Polls API

1. Take a look around at the Huffington Post Polls documentation
2. Run the following command in your terminal to see links to the acutal polls:

python3 huffpostAPI.py

3. The script will also save the raw json results in a file called huffpost_api_results.json. To make these results more readable, follow the instructions in the Setup section above