A site that scrapes and republishes information on Canada's House of Commons.

Code is released under the AGPLv3 (see below). However, any site you create using this code cannot use the openparliament.ca name or logo, except as acknowledgement.

Copyright (C) 2012 Michael Mulley (michaelmulley.com)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

This guide briefly covers a local development install. These instructions aren't suitable for a live, online instance.

You need Python 2.6 or 2.7. If you want search to work, you'll need Solr 3.5+.

You should have virtualenv and pip installed. Create a new virtualenv, and install dependencies:

pip install -r environment.txt

The site's pretty useless without some data. Download a dump of the openparliament data from http://openparliament.ca/data-download/

Save the SQLite database as parliament.sqlite, in the main project directory (same one manage.py is in).

Copy settings.py.example to settings.py. Customize it as necessary (though it should work out of the box).

Run python manage.py migrate to ensure the database schema is up-to-date.

python manage.py runserver

If things went well, you should now be able to access your own instance of openparliament at http://127.0.0.1:8000/.

The site is built around scrapers, and various jobs are available to scrape data. See jobs.py for a list of jobs; invoke them via, for example, manage.py job twitter. (Please be polite and don't scrape sites, especially parl.gc.ca sites, unnecessarily.)