Know Your Government is an attempt to raise awareness about political leaders in India in common person. Read more about the application

This application was submitted for Google Cloud Developer Challenge and was amongone of the finalists for India region

#Application Deploy URL https://gcdc2013-know-your-gov.appspot.com/

We know it's a bit long ;)

Tech Stack

• Google App Engine
• Google Data Store
• Python
• Flask, Jinja2
• Google Maps API
• Google+ Signin
• Google News API
• Twitter API
• Alchemy Sentiment API
• Youtube API

Development

• Clone this repo (git clone [email protected]:abhikandoi2000/knowyourgov.git)
• Download Python SDK for Google App Engine
• Unzip the downloaded SDK
• Change directory to project directory (cd ~/path/to/knowyourgov)
• Run the application locally (~/path/to/sdk/dev_appserver.py .)
• Visit http://localhost:8080/ using your browser to see it in action.

Populating the datastore

A GET request to /updatedb/politicians will populate the politician database.

A GET request to /updatedb/csvdata will add additional information about the politician from different sources.

A GET request to /updatedb/partyinfo will add information about major national political parties.

Make sure that the website is up and running before you do so.