This repo contains two files:
- Jupyter notebook with API retrieval script with prompts to set parameters (RDH_API.ipynb).
- Jupyter notebook with API retrieval script with manually setting parameters (RDH_API_SET_PARAM.ipynb).
- README from GreenInfo (our web developers) with additional information on the WordPress API (Download_API.txt).
The jupyter notebooks in this repo can be used to extract data from the RDH API. Designated API users can "Run All" and fill out the prompts as needed (e.g. username, password, states of interest, filtering paramters, etc.) for the RDH_API script, and set the parameters manually at the top for RDH_API_SET_PARAM script. The scripts use pandas, requests, io, numpy, and getpass libraries. If you do not have these on your system, you may need to install them. You should not have to modify any of the code to retrieve data from the API, which will be extracted to the directory in which this script is housed on your system. You must be a designated API user by RDH in order for the script to work, this is a different status than a normal, verified account.
The notebook uses pandas version 1.3.1, requests version 2.25.1, and numpy version 1.20.3. The script may run on different versions, but if you are receiving an import error, try installing these versions.
Please note that there is additional information about datasets on our website: redistrictingdatahub.org. Should you be interested in this information, please navigate to your state(s) of interest and then desired dataset(s).
If you have any questions or requests about/for the script, accessing RDH data, or becoming a designated API user, please contact [email protected].