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Python Tutorial Exercise 3: Implement the govAPI_UK class

Posted on 11.Feb 2019 | Tags python tut01

Write a govAPI_UK implementation class which retrieves the following attributes from the UK government API:

familyName
givenName
gender
party
id (by extracting the number out of the about attributes)

We use the UK goverment API “data.parliament.uk” for retrieving government members.

The full API is described here:

http://explore.data.parliament.uk/?learnmore=Members

The following request will return a JSON data structure of all members, which you have to transform:

http://lda.data.parliament.uk/members.json

The JSON is shown below

This formatted view can be achieved by using the online json formatter: https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/

A hint:

When you have fetched the JSON and stored in a variable, loadedjson you have to iterate over the array found in
loaded_json[‘result’][‘items’]

Additional point:

Elaborate if the API used the paging mechanism