I'm also interested in obtaining this data, I was looking before and found the parlparse dump which uses different IDs to mysoc. Is there not a mysoc dump available anywhere? Or perhaps you could pass me a dump of the data that you are collecting - seems silly to duplicate.
Matt 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! > > -- > Matt Robinson > http://inanimatt.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
