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Is the API permanently down? #103

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wannabeCitizen opened this issue Nov 29, 2016 · 23 comments
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Is the API permanently down? #103

wannabeCitizen opened this issue Nov 29, 2016 · 23 comments

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@wannabeCitizen
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Am trying to use the Capitol-Words API for my PhD research. I haven't used it in roughly two years, but now the endpoints all are giving me no-response errors. The web page for registering an API key is down as well.

Are you still running this API?

@jsfenfen
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This project is one of several being transferred from sunlight to propublica, and things may be changing / experiencing mild breakage in the interim. @dwillis or @schwanksta might know more about what the plan is...

@dwillis
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dwillis commented Nov 29, 2016

Capitol Words will be the last of the Sunlight projects that we get up and running, and the plan is for it to be in place by January.

@dc3105
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dc3105 commented Dec 1, 2016

Right in halfway of using Capitolwords for my thesis...
is it inaccessible neither via python or R right now? Any way to get the data?

Thanks!

@dwillis
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dwillis commented Dec 1, 2016

@dc3105 It is inaccessible right now, unfortunately, but we are aiming to have the site, including the data, back up in January.

@jchaskell
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@dc3105 what do you need for your thesis? I might be able to help.

@mikemfleming
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@dwillis Have y'all been able to make any progress so far? I love this API and was going to use it for a project of mine. 😃

@dwillis
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dwillis commented Dec 31, 2016

@mikemfleming it's not back up yet, but we're working on it.

@bfdeitch
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@dwillis are you able to provide an updated ETA? We use this API as a fun programming project for students to learn about APIs as well as see all the funny things politicians say (e.g. a search for 'zucchini' turns up some pretty interesting exchanges). Thanks!

@mikemfleming
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RIP to one of the best APIs on the world wide web 😢

@ldparadise
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Just joining the chorus wondering if it's going to be back up soon, was going to do a workshop on using it sometime in the next few weeks for students

@mikemfleming
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@dwillis @schwanksta @drinks @bycoffe @jessykate @sbma44 @cweber @AlJohri hey just checking in on this again. don't want to pester y'all but is there a timeline on getting this API back up and running? thanks!

@dwillis
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dwillis commented Feb 17, 2017

@mikemfleming we've begun work on standing it up. i don't have a fixed date for you, but we want to get this done as soon as we can.

@mikemfleming
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@dwillis awesome, thank you! i was only worried that it had ceased to be.

@dwillis
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dwillis commented Feb 17, 2017

@mikemfleming bereft of life it is not.

@robertjallen
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unable to register

@jbohr2
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jbohr2 commented Oct 24, 2018

@dwillis any updates on when/whether Capital Words API will be up again?

@dwillis
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dwillis commented Oct 24, 2018

@jbohr2 We're actively working on it now and hope to have it back within a month.

@g1991
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g1991 commented Jan 3, 2019

@jbohr2 We're actively working on it now and hope to have it back within a month.

Hi @jbohr2 and @dwillis or @schwanksta, just checking in here. Working on a research project that would be greatly helped by this. Any thoughts on the timeline?

@AlJohri
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AlJohri commented Jan 3, 2019

@g1991 see: https://projects.propublica.org/capitol-words/
curl "https://projects.propublica.org/capitol-words/cwapi/count/?days_ago=30&q=immigration"

@mikemfleming
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@AlJohri awesome! does this mean it's back up again?

@dwillis
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dwillis commented Jan 3, 2019

It is back, but like the app itself it's not totally finished. We'll have an announcement when it's fully back to what it was, but you're free to explore it and let us know of any issues.

@Maiabrennerst
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Maiabrennerst commented Mar 11, 2019

Hi, I am trying the API with the example:

http://localhost:8000/cwapi/search/?content=russia&start_date=2017-03-01&end_date=2017-03-30&size=1

and I get the following error:

Exception Type: ValueError at /cwapi/search/
Exception Value: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)

Any idea on what am I doing wrong???

cwapi/term_counts_by_day works perfectly fine!

Thanks

@srnelson
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srnelson commented Dec 3, 2019

On the third anniversary of this issue, are there any updates to be had? Will Capitol Words be back as a service any time soon?

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