tobynott80/find-my-mp-web

A website to gather information on a local MP (UK)

Find My Mp

Website to gather information on a local MP

Find My MP

Work In Progress

A simple flask app to wrap the parliament.uk API to show an MP's details based off a postcode. Also finds related Guardian articles (work in progress)

Running with Docker

1. Build the app from Dockerfile

   docker build app/ -t fmmp:latest

2. Run the app, supplying with The Guardian API key, exposing port 80

   docker run -p 80:80 -e GUARDIAN_KEY={key} -d fmmp:latest

   Note: Guardian API key not necessary for full functionality

3. Go to localhost

Running manually

1. Set Guardian API key as environment variable (Optional)

   Linux: $Export GUARDIAN_KEY="{key}"

   Powershell: $Env:GUARDIAN_KEY = "{key}"

   Note: Guardian API key not necessary for full functionality

2. Install PIP requirements

   pip install -r app/requirements.txt

3. Run app.py

   python3 app/app.py

Known Issues

• Guardian API returns unrelated articles for some MPs.
• Search Page can be slow to load - API limiting

find-my-mp-web's Issues

Security Issue: Server running on debug mode

App should be run in production mode via WSGI instead of debug mode for security purposes. This will involve installing wsgi and updating the dockerfile

Documentation correction

The current documentation inaccurately describes the purpose of the website as "A website to gather information on a local MP (UK&NI)". It is important to note that the long form name of the United Kingdom is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", which includes Northern Ireland. Thus, a more accurate description would be either "A website to gather information on a local MP (UK)" or "A website to gather information on a local MP (GB&NI)".

Guardian search inaccurate

When loading news results for an MP, the search is finding all results for each word in the name.
E.g., For Jo Stevens, results for "Jo" come up and results for "Stevens" come up. Instead results for "Jo Stevens" should come up.
This can be fixed by adding an "AND" between the two names (https://open-platform.theguardian.com/documentation/).
This would look like this: https://content.guardianapis.com/search?q=Jo AND Stevens