Govtrack-node NPM

GovTrack Node

A Node.js wrapper for the GovTrack data API.

Install

npm install govtrack-node

Usage

// include the module
var govTrack = require('govtrack-node');

// list current members of Congress
govTrack.findRole({ current: true }, function(err, res) {
  if (!err) {
    // res contains JSON data response
  }
});

govTrack.findPerson({ gender: 'male', lastname: 'smith' }, function(err, res) {
  if (!err) {
    // res contains JSON data response
  }
});

API

This module mirrors the GovTrack API endpoints as detailed at http://www.govtrack.us/developers/api. Please refer to this link for more information on available parameters and the returned data.

Each function takes two parameters -- 1) params which can either be an ID number or an object which contain key-value pairs to filter on and 2) a callback function which will be invoked after the API call is made. callback will be passed err and res as its parameters. err will hold any error information if an error occurs during the call and res will contain a JSON object containing the query result if successful.