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FDLP Allergic to Curl 17 Jan 2013 | 11:37 pm
Waldo Jaquith discovered that the FDLP (Federal Depository Library Program) appears to have an allergic reaction to people downloading their data with basic command line tools. fdlp․gov blocks reques...
The Data and Tech Behind Sitegeist 7 Jan 2013 | 08:32 pm
It's been three weeks since we launched Sitegeist and the response has greatly exceeded (my) expectations! There have been over 27,000 downloads of the iOS and Android apps and a flood of feedback ema...
Sunlight from the Command Line 19 Dec 2012 | 09:09 pm
Are you as big of a fan of Paul Tagliamonte as I am? If so, then you are well aware of python-sunlight, his awesome, comprehensive Python API client for Sunlight's APIs. The latest release includes a ...
Influence Explorer API, Now with Entity Type Filtering 7 Dec 2012 | 11:38 pm
Last year, we wrote about how to get access to our political influence data via the Influence Explorer API. That post is a great introduction, but here's an update on a small, but significant, improve...
Election Night Snapshots 8 Nov 2012 | 12:36 am
Late last week, we had an idea: election night was sure to be a confusing rush, and the closeness of the race in many states made result-reporting snafus seem possible. And the basic shape of election...
New Districts in Sunlight Congress API 2 Nov 2012 | 07:54 pm
Good news if you were one of the users waiting on our Congress API to support the newly drawn congressional districts! As of today it is possible to pass the districts=2012 flag to the Congress API's ...
Keeping Authentication Simple 31 Oct 2012 | 09:24 pm
The point of publishing bulk data is so it can be reused as widely as possible. This is particularly true for government data, which belongs to the public. Government agencies can sometimes also be c...
Art Hack Day Boston 17 Oct 2012 | 10:10 pm
A couple of weekends ago, I attended Art Hack Day at Harvard. The event was put on by the Big Bad Lab, where we were proud to provide the data for the event through our APIs It was a pleasure getting ...
A Cite for Sore Eyes 12 Oct 2012 | 09:28 pm
Earlier this week the annual Law Via the Internet conference was hosted by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University. The conference schedule featured talks on a range of policy and techni...
Politwoops - Now With More Open Source Flavor 9 Oct 2012 | 08:34 pm
Thursday we released a revamped design of Politwoops! You can read about some of the changes to the features and content in Nicko's post on the main blog, but the main news of the day is that we've no...
