It’s that time again. Elections are over and a key question has been rolling in from those of you that use our legislative APIs: When can I expect to see the newly elected officials in the data?
Continue readingUse Sunlight’s APIs for your own project!
A review of Sunlight's most popular APIs and some non-Sunlight projects that use our free data!
Continue readingI learned basic JSON in the morning and made a silly Twitter bot with Sunlight’s API in the afternoon
It doesn't take a full-time software developer to build tools on Sunlight's data.
Continue readingEncrypting our Congress API and protecting your location
If you're using our Congress API — **especially** if you use our endpoints that look up Congressional representation based upon zip code or latitude/longitude — we **strongly recommend** you use HTTPS. It's for your own protection, after all.
Continue readingProjects that Hack using Sunlight APIs
In the past few months we have had the pleasure of partnering with Hack Reactor, an honors-level, immersive coding academy in San Francisco. Check out what their students did with Sunlight's APIs.
Continue readingReintroducing OpenCongress: Now From The Sunlight Foundation
OpenCongress, the site that enables anyone to follow and explore the activities of Congress, is now proudly operated by the Sunlight Foundation. The Participatory Politics Foundation originally launched OpenCongress in 2007 and built it into a leading comprehensive, nonpartisan source for legislative information used by millions. Today, the Sunlight Foundation unveils the next stage for the project with refreshed code and a continuing commitment to build on the strong core functionality.
Continue readingWhat’s New in the Sunlight Congress API
In January, Sunlight [released a new Congress API](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sunlightlabs/r-evxgtFXRw). It's been a huge help to [our own products](http://congress.sunlightfoundation.com/), and seen a great deal of use by the community (such as today's [DefundTheNSA campaign](http://defundthensa.com/)). In the time since, we've released some new data, some new developer-friendly features, and seen lots of community contribution. Here's what's been added over the last few months:
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