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Project Vote Smart API

The Project Vote Smart API lets developers query against a broad range of data that Project Vote Smart maintains - candidate information, election districts, ballot initiatives, votes, committees, officials, and more. Results are returned in XML or JSON format.

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Project Vote Smart: Highlights

Summary: U.S. political data lookup

Category: Government

Tags: politics government

Protocols: REST

Data Formats: XML, JSON

API home: http://api.votesmart.org/docs/index.html

Project Vote Smart: Specifications

Functionality

API Groups: Address, Ballot Measure, CandidateBio, District, Election, Leadership, Local, Office, State, Votes

Example API Methods: http://api.votesmart.org/Votes.getCategories?year=2007, Votes.getBill

Client Install Required: No

Service Endpoint: http://api.votesmart.org

Signup and Licensing

Signup Requirements: None

Developer Key Required: No

Account Required: No

Commercial Licensing

Provider: www.votesmart.org/

Non-Commercial Lic.

Data Licensing

Usage Fees: None

Usage Limits: None specified

Terms of Service: API Terms of use

Security

Authentication Model: HTTP Basic Auth

SSL Support: No

Read-only Without Login: No

Support

Vendor API Kits: PHP scripts, PHP libraries, Python sample code

Community API Kits

API Blog

Site Blog

API Forum

Developer Support: Dev user mailing list available, Support email address provided

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July 14, 2008 at 18:38: Comment by: meman1188
http://votesmart.org/services_api.php is the link to get an API key and download the libraries.

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