The updated DemocracyMap API now provides coverage of over 100,000 local officials with a growing list of public scrapers hosted on ScraperWiki. You can see a demo of the API output at http://api.democracymap.org/demo
If you would like to contribute new scrapers, please say so on the mailing list and take a look at the guidelines for contributing.
The current DemocracyMap API coverage includes:
National
- All Congressman (Sunlight Congress API)
State
Primary contact information for all US States (website, phone number, etc)
- All 50 Governors
- All State legislators – (Open States API)
Counties
Primary contact information for all US counties (website, address, etc)
- All County Officials (35,907 officials)
Cities:
Primary contact information for all US cities (website, address, etc)
City Officials:
- 1,214 mayors for major cities
- 8,777 city officials in California
- 4,716 city officials in Washington State
- 3,396 city officials in Oregon
- 56,354 city officials in Pennsylvania
- 19,821 city officials in Texas
- 3,290 city officials in Florida
- 4,907 city officials in Massachusetts