The New York State HCRA Elector list is not user friendly and not easy to quickly get all the data from their website.
The list is updated once a month, so it's handy to have an automated way of getting new data, and being able to search on it
This project will
- Scrape the website to pull the elector list into a MySQL database
- Give you API endpoints to search the elector list
Steps
git clone https://github.com/maafk/hcraApi.git
cd hcraApi
npm install
You'll want to edit app.js and getElectors.js to input MySQL credentials.
Once edited, pull the elector list.
node getElectors.js
Once the data has been pulled to the Database, you can run a node server and query the elector list
node bin/www
This will start your node server. Now you can send GET requests with your search term.
Endpoints are formatted as
/api/:search/:state/:city
The only required field is the :search field. Use the :state and :city to narrow down your search.
Give it a try!