Kratos is a platform for people to keep-up with how their elected officials are representing them in congress.
This Elixir-based API pulls voting and bill data from various U.S. Government open data sources and normalizes everything with standardized schemas to allow modern tracking of any elected representative's voting record.
This API was co-developed with a companion iOS app. The screenshots below illustrate some of the data and features available from the API.
The API allows quick location-based lookup of a user's current congressional district and the elected representatives for that district.
From there, using normalized ids for each representative, it's easy to see more information about any current elected official.
Including viewing a representatives voting record and all the bills they have sponsored.
Every bill in congress can have multiple votes and it's easy to get a high-level overview of the amendments and changes.
And the API provides the most important data — how every elected official voted on the specific bill.
The API also supports user tracking of specific bills to better reveal all the votes and how a bill becomes a law.
This API powers an iOS app that is available for free. The voting and bill data continues to be updated but there's no further feature improvements at this time.
$ mix phoenix.server
$ mix test
API documentation uses the api blueprint standard.
$ npm run doc
Deployment uses edeliver.
$ mix edeliver build release
$ mix edeliver deploy release
$ mix edeliver restart