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Open States

Open States

Open States strives to improve civic engagement at the state level by providing data and tools regarding state legislatures. We aim to serve members of the public, activist groups, journalists, and researchers with better data on what is happening in their state capital, and to provide tools to reduce barriers to participation and increase engagement.

Open States aggregates legislative information from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. This information is then standardized, cleaned, and published to the public via OpenStates.org, a powerful API, and bulk downloads.

As of 2021, Open States is a project of Civic Eagle.

Contributing

All issues are filed on our Issues repository.

You can communicate with us via our Slack

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  1. issues Public

    Having trouble? Looking to contribute? Issues live here!

    15 2

  2. openstates-scrapers Public

    source for Open States scrapers

    Python 857 471

  3. people Public

    Curated information on all state legislators & governors.

    123 102

  4. openstates-core Public

    Open States data model and scraper backend

    Python 25 28

  5. documentation Public

    Open States Documentation

    25 33

  6. openstates.org Public

    OpenStates.org

    Python 63 53

Repositories

Showing 10 of 26 repositories
  • api-v3 Public

    v3 of Open States API

    Python 18 MIT 9 0 0 Updated Mar 21, 2025
  • openstates-scrapers Public

    source for Open States scrapers

    Python 857 GPL-3.0 471 2 1 Updated Mar 21, 2025
  • people Public

    Curated information on all state legislators & governors.

    123 CC0-1.0 102 1 25 Updated Mar 21, 2025
  • task-definitions Public

    task definitions for Open States

    7 10 0 0 Updated Mar 20, 2025
  • openstates-realtime Public

    Support for yielding bill data in real time

    Python 8 MIT 3 0 0 Updated Mar 12, 2025
  • openstates-core Public

    Open States data model and scraper backend

    Python 25 MIT 28 0 1 Updated Mar 11, 2025
  • scrapy-test Public

    Proof of concept to test scrapy-based scrapers

    Python 0 GPL-3.0 2 0 0 Updated Mar 6, 2025
  • documentation Public

    Open States Documentation

    25 CC-BY-4.0 33 0 0 Updated Feb 25, 2025
  • openstates-geo Public

    Source for state legislative district map tiles for openstates.org

    Python 24 MIT 12 2 1 Updated Jan 31, 2025
  • spatula Public Forked from jamesturk/spatula

    A modern Python library for writing maintainable web scrapers.

    Python 0 MIT 11 0 0 Updated Nov 29, 2024

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