API Documentation

The data of this site is also available in a machine-readable format (JSON). Our API serves the same data as the application; especially, no answers that are visible in the API if they have not been published in the application.

Feel free to fetch this dataset and analyze it as you wish. If you've done something interesting, consider dropping us a note :)

URL

• ch19.freedomvote.ch/api/v1/

Data Structure

• Politicians
  • id: The id of the politician
  • first_name: The first name of the politician
  • last_name: The last name of the politician
  • is_member_of_parliament: Is the politician a member of the parliament?
  • image: URL to the image (can be null)
  • state: Name of the state (can be null)
  • party (can be null)
    • name: The long name of the party
    • shortname: The short name of the party (can be null)
  • past_contributions: Past contributions of the politician
  • future_plans: Future plans of the politician
  • answers
    • question_id: The id of the referring question
    • answer: Agreement level to the question (is between 0 - 10)
    • note: Additional note to the answer
• Categories
  • id: The id of the category
  • name: The name of the category (by language code)
• Questions
  • id: The id of the question
  • category_id: The id of the referring category
  • text: The question text (by language code)
  • description: A better description of the question (by language code)
  • preferred_answer: The preferred answer given by the admins (is between 0 - 10)