Missouri House of Representatives: XML Representative Export Instructions
Due to increased load from "scraping" technology used to gather data from our servers, the Missouri House of Representatives has begun generating several
XML files which should allow more efficient download of information while minimizing load on our servers.
- These Representative files will be updated on an hourly schedule, then uploaded to the server. The job is scheduled so that scripts run on the hour should pick up the latest version.
- In the Representative List XML File, the date and time of last update is given. To reduce your own bandwidth usage, you may wish to script to only pull documents updated since your last data retrieval.
- Do not automate scripts to pull down information more often than once every half hour. This will not benefit you, and will cause unecessary load.
- Scripts which cause undue load, either by repeated "scraping" of web pages, or excessive polling of the XML Exports may be temporarily blocked at the discretion of House Information Systems.
- This data is made available for public use, however, we do not support technology external to the Missouri House of Representatives.
XML Format:
- RepresentativeData - The top level element for all of the Representative's Information.
- RepresentativeInfo - The top level element for basic information about the Representative.
- PhotoLink - Link to Representative's Photo
- LastName - The Representative's last name.
- FirstName - The Representative's first name.
- DistrictNum - The Representative's district number.
- Party - The Representative's political party (eg. Republican, Democrat, etc.).
- YearElected - The year that the Representative was elected.
- YearsServed - The number of years the Representative served in the Missouri House of Representatives.
- Hometown - The Representative's home town.
- Counties - The top level element for the Representative's counties they are responsible for.
- County - The top level element for each county.
- CountyName - The name of the county.
- Committees - The top level element for the Committees that the Representative is a member of.
- Committee - The top level element for each Committee.
- CommitteeName - The Committee's name.
- CommitteePosition - The Representative's position in said Committee (eg. Member, Chair, Vice-Chair etc.).
- CapitolAddress - Representative's address at the Missouri Capitol building.
- LegislativeAssistant - The first and last name of the Representative's Legislative Assistant.
- PhoneNumber - Representative's phone number at the Missouri Capitol building.
- EmailAddress - Represenative's email address.
- Biography - Personal Biography for the Representative.
- RepresentativeLegislation - The top element for the three different types of Representative Legislation.
- SponsoredBill - The top element for a bill sponsored by the Representative.
- BillType - The type of the bill (eg. HB, HJR, etc.).
- BillNumber - The number of the bill.
- LegislationType - What type of legislation this data represents (eg. Sponsor, Co-sponsor, Amendment, etc.).
- LongTitle - The Long Title for the bill.
- LRNumber - The LRNumber for the bill.
- CoSponsoredBill - The top element for a bill co-sponsored by the Representative.
- BillType - The type of the bill (eg. HB, HJR, etc.).
- BillNumber - The number of the bill.
- LegislationType - What type of legislation this data represents (eg. Sponsor, Co-sponsor, Amendment).
- LongTitle - The Long Title for the bill.
- LRNumber - The LRNumber for the bill.
- BillSponsor - The Sponsor of the Co-Sponsored bill.
- SponsorDistrict - The District of the Sponsor of the bill.
- SponsoredAmendment - The top element for an amendment sponsored by the Representative.
- BillType - The type of the bill (eg. HB, HJR, etc.).
- BillNumber - The number of the bill.
- LegislationType - What type of legislation this data represents (eg. Sponsor, Co-sponsor, Amendment).
- LongTitle - The Long Title for the bill.
- LRNumber - The LRNumber for the amendment.
- AmendmentStatus - The of the amendment (eg. Adopted, Defeated, etc.).
- AmdDescription - The description of the amendment (eg. HA 1, HA 1 to HA 1, etc.).