Billy commands

Examples from OpenStates are given, but these commands work with any Billy deployment.

download-photos

You must set the following settings in your billy_settings.py:

• AWS_KEY
• AWS_SECRET
• AWS_BUCKET

billy-util download-photos ak al ar ...

mongo-index

billy-util mongo-index --purge

If you create your own indexes, either omit --purge or remember to recreate your indexes.

elasticsearch-push

Not sure exactly what you need in terms of setting up ElasticSearch.

billy-util elasticsearch-push ak al ar ...

dumpcsv

You must set the following settings in your billy_settings.py if you use the --upload switch:

• AWS_KEY
• AWS_SECRET
• AWS_BUCKET

billy-util dumpcsv --upload ak al ar ...

dumpjson

You must set the following settings in your billy_settings.py:

• API_BASE_URL, e.g. http://openstates.org/api/v1/ for OpenStates
• API_KEY an API key if your API is authenticated

You can also use the --apikey API_KEY option, but it will expose your API key in your shell's history.

Set the following settings if you use the --upload switch:

• AWS_KEY
• AWS_SECRET
• AWS_BUCKET

billy-util dumpjson --novalidate --upload ak al ar ...

• You can remove the --novalidate switch if you want to validate all API data.
• You can set the --schema_dir SCHEMA_DIR option to validate against your own schema.

update-ext-ids

Updates a legislator's Influence Explorer ID. Not sure when you need to run this command.

update_leg_ids

Matches a bill's sponsors and a vote's voters to a legislator document. Not sure when you need to run this command.