US Disclosures

Simple python app to track US Disclosurs forms, where members of congress post their investments. Script checks if there are any new disclosures for specified members and if there are, those disclosures will be sent as a telegram message. Data is from https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/FinancialDisclosure

How to run

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/olinpin/us-disclosures

2. Change directory into the repo

cd us-disclosures

3. Copy .env file

cp .env.example .env

4. Fill .env file with using your favorite editor:

vim .env

5. Create virtual environment and activate it

python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate

6. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

7. Edit the seed.sql file with names you'd like to track (as seen in the example in the file)
8. Run the script

python disclosures/financial_disclosure.py

9. Receive telegram messages with disclosures (for best results I recommend running this every 30 minutes with crontab)

.env variables

• TELEGRAM_API_KEY - can be obtained through the official telegram docs
• TELEGRAM_CHANNEL_ID - that's the channel ID of your telegram bot that you created according to docs above (can be a CSV)
• DB_PATH - can stay the same
• SCHEMA_PATH - can stay the same
• SEED_PATH - can stay the same