Matt Ford wrote: > I'm also interested in obtaining this data, I was looking before and > found the parlparse dump which uses different IDs to mysoc.
No it doesn't, it uses the same IDs - the entries in the TheyWorkForYou MySQL database are generated directly from the parlparse XML files. The member IDs are in all-members.xml (for MPs anyway), and the person IDs are in people.xml. ATB, Matthew > Matt Robinson wrote: >> Allo, >> >> I'd like to snarf a bunch of MPs data from TWFY to seed a little >> database project, and I want to make sure I don't do anything horribly >> antisocial or dickish like take the servers down. Hopefully I'm just >> being responsibly paranoid. :) I've got my API key and my >> parliamentary licence. >> >> Basically I want to call getMPs and getLords once each, then getMPInfo >> on each person mentioned. I'm pretty much just looking for names, >> dates, wikipedia/grauniad/bbc URLs, and a couple of other things, but >> I also want to link back to TheyWorkForYou for each person, otherwise >> I'd cheerfully use the parlparse XML files (or am I missing something >> obvious?) >> >> So just a couple of questions: >> >> First, what's "low volume"? My assumption is that 2 requests a second >> is a reasonable maximum, but can I actually do way more (or should I >> do even less?) >> >> Secondly, is it better to pass 50 ids to getMPsInfo (obviously not >> twice a second) than to make 50 individual getMPInfo requests? How >> many ids should I be passing at a time? >> >> Thanks very much for your time! _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
