Capitol Words

Common Parameters

word:

a string representation of a word

legislator_id:

Bioguide ID of Member of Congress

year:

four digit year

month:

one or two digit month

day:

one or two digit day of month

maxrows:

used in word of day methods, the number of words to return for each day

format:

format to return (json and xml currently supported)

Word Methods

• Word.dailysum.bydate(word, year, month, day, format) Daily totals of word on a specific date

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/word/<word>/<year>/<month>/<day>/feed.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/word/iraq/2008/05/23/feed.json

• Word.dailysum.bymonth(word, year, month, format) Daily totals of word for in a calendar month

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/word/<word>/<year>/<month>/feed.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/word/iraq/2008/05/feed.xml

• Word.dailysum.byyear(word, year, format) Daily totals of word for in a calendar year

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/word/<word>/<year>/feed.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/word/iraq/2008/feed.json

• Word.dailysum.byrange(word, startyear, startmonth, startday, endyear, endmonth, endday, format) Daily totals of word in a date range

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/word/<word>/<startyear>/<startmonth>/<startday>/
  <endyear>/<endmonth>/<endday>/feed.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/word/iraq/2008/04/23/2008/05/23/feed.xml

Word of the Day Methods

• WordOfDay.latest(maxrows, format) Top words for last day a word exists

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/wod/latest/top<maxrows>.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/wod/latest/top1.json, http://capitolwords.org/api/wod/latest/top10.json

• WordOfDay.bydate(year, month, day, maxrows, format) Top words for a specific date

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/wod/<year>/<month>/<day>/top<maxrows>.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/wod/2008/05/23/top5.xml

• WordOfDay.bymonth(year, month, maxrows, format) Top words for each day in a calendar month

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/wod/<year>/<month>/top<maxrows>.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/wod/2008/05/top1.json

• WordOfDay.byyear(year, maxrows, format) Top words for each day in a calendar year

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/wod/<year>/top<maxrows>.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/wod/2008/top1.xml

• WordOfDay.byrange(startyear, startmonth, startday, endyear, endmonth, endday, maxrows, format) Top words for each day in a date range

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/wod/<startyear>/<startmonth>/<startday>/<endyear>/<endmonth>/
  <endday>/top<maxrows>.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/wod/2008/04/23/2008/05/23/top1.json

Lawmaker Top Word Methods

• LawmakerTopWords.latest(lawmaker_id, maxrows, format) Top words for lawmaker for last day a word exists for lawmaker

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/lawmaker/<lawmaker_id>/latest/top<maxrows>.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/lawmaker/M000355/latest/top5.json

• LawmakerTopWords.bydate(lawmaker_id, year, month, day, maxrows, format) Top words for lawmaker for a specific date

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/lawmaker/<lawmaker_id>/<year>/<month>/<day>/top<maxrows>.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/lawmaker/M000355/2008/07/23/top5.xml

• LawmakerTopWords.bymonth(lawmaker_id, year, month, maxrows, format) Top words for lawmaker for a given month

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/lawmaker/<lawmaker_id>/<year>/<month>/top<maxrows>.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/lawmaker/M000355/2008/07/top5.json

• LawmakerTopWords.byyear(lawmaker_id, year, maxrows, format) Top words for lawmaker for a given year

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/lawmaker/<lawmaker_id>/<year>/top<maxrows>.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/lawmaker/M000355/2008/top5.xml

• LawmakerTopWords.byrange(lawmaker_id, startyear, startmonth, startday, endyear, endmonth, endday, maxrows, format) Top words for lawmaker for a given date range

  Format:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/lawmaker/<lawmaker_id>/<startyear>/<startmonth>/<startday>/<endyear>/<endmonth>/<endday>/
  top<maxrows>.<format>

  Example:

  http://capitolwords.org/api/lawmaker/M000355/2008/07/23/2008/09/16/top5.xml

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