Nepal Election API 2079

Developed using the fantastic beautifulsoup scraping library, data source is ekantipur

This repo was developed as backend for election-bot for reddit hosted at https://github.com/pykancha/reddit-bots

Hosted at https://flaskapi.osac.org.np

Installation

• Install python
• Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/pykancha/election-api
cd election-api

• Install dependencies

poetry install # or pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run the server

poetry run python main.py # or python main.py

Usage

AreaName

Requests at

/area?name=pradesh-1/district-jhapa

where name is valid kantipur url part representing an electoral area. This is supposed to be extracted from a kantipur url.

Example: https://flaskapi.osac.org.np/area?name=pradesh-1/district-jhapa

URL

Requests at

/url?url=https://election.ekantipur.com/pradesh-1/district-jhapa?lng=eng

where url must be valid kantipur url in format similar to url in above example.

Example: https://flaskapi.osac.org.np/url?url=https://election.ekantipur.com/pradesh-1/district-jhapa?lng=eng

Bulk List

Requests at

/bulk?list=pradesh-1/district-jhapa,pradesh-3/district-kathmandu

Where list must be list of valid AreaNames sepearated by commas.

Example: https://flaskapi.osac.org.np/bulk?list=pradesh-1/district-jhapa,pradesh-3/district-kathmandu

Summary

Requests at

/summary

Gives all party names, their wins and leads count in Federal and provincial category.

Example: https://flaskapi.osac.org.np/summary