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This is great action on the part of SendWrite. One suggestion: since you ask for the sender's home address anyway, why not use that to scrape the contactcongre
by ubasu 15y ago
This is great action on the part of SendWrite.
One suggestion: since you ask for the sender's home address anyway, why not use that to scrape the contactcongress website to automatically fill in their representatives?
- colevscode 15y agoWould love to do that. We wanted to get this out the door quickly. If it is popular we'll see about improving the UI. Thanks!
- danielsoneg 15y agoSunlight Labs has an API that'll do it by zip code: http://services.sunlightlabs.com/docs/Sunlight_Congress_API/ http://services.sunlightlabs.com/docs/Sunlight_Congress_API/ They've got libraries for Ruby, Python, and even PHP, and the interface is drop-dead simple. Definitely worth a look - I'm baking them into one of my projects right now.
- colevscode 15y agoThis could have saved us a lot of time. Thanks!
- chimeracoder 15y agoThis is amazing. Some years ago, I wanted to build a site that did essentially the same thing (but for a different issue), and this API either didn't exist or wasn't complete/accurate enough. It's remarkable how much power the web has to effect political change - seems like we're only seeing the beginning of it. ...that is, unless SOPA passes, in which case this may be as good as it gets....
- petec 15y agoIf people don't want to waste paper, you can also check out popvox.com or votizen.com. Both allow for electronic communication with Congress.