Poli Search

Home Page
Survey
Example politician search

Inspiration

Our team has all recently come of voting age, and we are of the collective opinion that deciding who to vote for is an arduous task.

What it Does

Take a quick survey about your political stances, submit a politician for comparison, and watch the magic happen! A similarity score will be calculated and basic info will be returned. This will allow you to make a more informed decision when it comes to voting day.

How We Built it

Using Google Civic and Open FEC APIs we request information on politicians. We then list a short bio using a Wikipedia scraper. For flask, we used a template linked here.

Challenges We Encountered

Importing images
Utilizing Google APIs
flask in general
learning new languages in 24 hours (HTML, CSS) ## What we learned We learned about using flask to implement HTML and CSS to create a functional website.

(All searches must be of politicians serving the 45040 zip code)