https://github.com/bhrutledge/ma-bill-sponsors
Map of sponsors of bills in the Massachusetts legislature
https://github.com/bhrutledge/ma-bill-sponsors
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Map of sponsors of bills in the Massachusetts legislature
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bhrutledge/ma-bill-sponsors
- Owner: bhrutledge
- License: cc0-1.0
- Created: 2020-11-23T02:20:28.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-02-16T02:16:20.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-08-31T09:43:29.800Z (11 months ago)
- Language: HTML
- Homepage: https://ma-bill-sponsors.herokuapp.com/
- Size: 3.38 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Massachusetts Bill Sponsors
A Flask app that shows an interactive map and table of sponsors for bills in the Massachusetts legislature, using data scraped from [malegislature.gov](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/).
Written as a proof-of-concept in 2017.
## Developing
Install the dependencies:
```
$ python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -U setuptools pip wheel
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
```
Set environment variables for Flask:
```
$ export FLASK_APP=ma_bill_sponsors.py
$ export FLASK_DEBUG=1
```
Run the development server:
```
$ flask run
```
Deploy to Heroku:
```
$ git push heroku
```
## TODO
- Rebuild map based on and
- Deploy via push to GitHub