sunlight.capitolwords¶
For every day Congress is in session, Capitol Words visualizes the most frequently used words in the Congressional Record, giving you an at-a-glance view of which issues lawmakers address on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. Capitol Words lets you see what are the most popular words spoken by lawmakers on the House and Senate floor.
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capitolwords.
dates
(phrase, **kwargs)[source]¶ Retrieve information regarding the popularity of a phrase over a period of time.
For a list of optional arguments see Capitol Words’ dates.json endpoint.
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capitolwords.
phrases
(entity_type, entity_value, **kwargs)[source]¶ Retrieve information on the top phrases for an facet.
A facet can be any date, month, state or legislator.
For a list of arguments see Capitol Words’ phrases.json endpoint.
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capitolwords.
phrases_by_entity
(entity_type, **kwargs)[source]¶ Get listing of top facets for a given phrase.
A facet can be any date, month, state or legislator.
For a list of arguments see Capitol Words’ phrases/entity.json endpoint.
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capitolwords.
text
(phrase=None, title=None, **kwargs)[source]¶ Full text-search against Capitol Words data.
Neither
phrase
nortitle
are required, but one or the other must be used. If both are omitted, asunlight.errors.BadRequestException
will be thrown.phrase
will do a full-text search on that phrase, whereastitle
will doa full-text search on the title of each CR (Congressional Record) document.For a list of arguments see Capitol Words’ text.json endpoint.