Using the civic-info Node.js Module to Get Voter and Election Info

Inspired by election apps like vote, I wrote civic-info.js, a simple Node.js module to interface with Google’s Civic Info API.

Getting Started

1. Secure a Google API key. 2. Install civic-info:

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npm install civic-info

3. Require and instantiate civic-info with your Google API key:

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var civicInfo = require("civic-info")({apiKey: "YOUR KEY"});

Alteratively, you can set a GOOGLE_API_KEY environment variable and instantiate like so:

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var civicInfo = require("civic-info")();

Examples

Get election info and election IDs:

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civicInfo.elections(function(data) {
  console.log(data);
});

Resulting response:

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{
  kind: 'civicinfo#electionsQueryResponse',
  elections:
    [ {
      id: '2000',
      name: 'VIP Test Election',
      electionDay: '2013-06-06'
    } ]
}

Get voter information such as polling places, contests, candidates, etc. surrounding an election whose electionID is ’4000′ for a voter who lives at 1500 Market Street in Philadelphia:

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civicInfo.voterInfo({electionID: '4000', address: '1500 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA'}, function(data) {
  console.log(data);
});