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Open States

Open States

Open States strives to improve civic engagement at the state level by providing data and tools regarding state legislatures. We aim to serve members of the public, activist groups, journalists, and researchers with better data on what is happening in their state capital, and to provide tools to reduce barriers to participation and increase engagement.

Open States aggregates legislative information from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. This information is then standardized, cleaned, and published to the public via OpenStates.org, a powerful API, and bulk downloads.

As of 2021, Open States is a project of Civic Eagle.

Contributing

All issues are filed on our Issues repository.

You can communicate with us via our Slack

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  1. issues issues Public

    Having trouble? Looking to contribute? Issues live here!

    15 2

  2. openstates-scrapers openstates-scrapers Public

    source for Open States scrapers

    Python 847 466

  3. people people Public

    Curated information on all state legislators & governors.

    114 93

  4. openstates-core openstates-core Public

    Open States data model and scraper backend

    Python 25 27

  5. documentation documentation Public

    Open States Documentation

    23 35

  6. openstates.org openstates.org Public

    OpenStates.org

    Python 63 52

Repositories

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  • people Public

    Curated information on all state legislators & governors.

    openstates/people’s past year of commit activity
    114 CC0-1.0 93 1 37 Updated Dec 13, 2024
  • task-definitions Public

    task definitions for Open States

    openstates/task-definitions’s past year of commit activity
    7 10 0 0 Updated Dec 12, 2024
  • openstates-scrapers Public

    source for Open States scrapers

    openstates/openstates-scrapers’s past year of commit activity
    Python 847 GPL-3.0 466 2 3 Updated Dec 12, 2024
  • spatula Public Forked from jamesturk/spatula

    A modern Python library for writing maintainable web scrapers.

    openstates/spatula’s past year of commit activity
    Python 0 MIT 11 0 0 Updated Nov 29, 2024
  • openstates-core Public

    Open States data model and scraper backend

    openstates/openstates-core’s past year of commit activity
    Python 25 MIT 27 0 1 Updated Nov 29, 2024
  • openstates-realtime Public

    Support for yielding bill data in real time

    openstates/openstates-realtime’s past year of commit activity
    Python 7 MIT 3 0 0 Updated Nov 22, 2024
  • documentation Public

    Open States Documentation

    openstates/documentation’s past year of commit activity
    23 CC-BY-4.0 35 0 0 Updated Nov 15, 2024
  • bobsled Public

    🛷 cool task runner

    openstates/bobsled’s past year of commit activity
    Python 11 MIT 1 8 16 Updated Oct 7, 2024
  • openstates-geo Public

    Source for state legislative district map tiles for openstates.org

    openstates/openstates-geo’s past year of commit activity
    Python 24 MIT 12 2 0 Updated Sep 20, 2024
  • api-v3 Public

    v3 of Open States API

    openstates/api-v3’s past year of commit activity
    Python 17 MIT 8 0 0 Updated Aug 19, 2024