Open States Documentation

Documentation for Open States, its API, and how to contribute.

Contents:

• Open States v2 GraphQL API
  • Basics
  • Full-fledged Example
  • Further Details
• Open States API v1
  • Basics
  • Deprecation
  • Deprecation of Identifiers
  • Data Types
  • Methods
• Contributing to Open States
  • Getting Started
  • Overview & Roadmap
  • Communication
  • Contributing to Scrapers
  • State-Specific Scraper Info
  • Testing Scrapers
  • Working On openstates.org
  • Contributing People Data
  • Text Extraction
  • Contributing Documentation
  • Code of Conduct
• Understanding the Data
  • Main Concepts
  • Categorization
  • Session Naming
• Usage
  • Notable Uses
  • Open Source Projects