Open States Skill for Mycroft

based off the OpenStates.org python library

This is a skill to add Open States support to Mycroft. This skill currently supports searching for bills by state, Retrieving a list of state senators and house member by state, search committees by state, search districts by state. Get information on a legislator via name search. Some of the retrieved information is still in a rough state, and will be improved over time.

Installation

Clone the repository into your ~/.mycroft/skills directory. Then install the dependencies inside your mycroft virtual environment:

If on picroft just skip the workon part and the directory will be /opt/mycroft/skills

cd ~/.mycroft/skills
git clone https://github.com/eClarity/skill-openstates.git
workon mycroft
cd skill-openstates
pip install -r requirements.txt

You will then need to restart mycroft.

Configuration

Config options coming soon. Not currently needed for API key.

Usage

Say something like "Hey Mycroft, government bills for "New York".

TODO

• New intents for more detailed information
• Improve dialogs
• ...

Contributing

All contributions welcome:

• Fork
• Write code
• Submit merge request