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publicbodies

DataHub
DataHub

A database of public bodies (or organizations): Examples are: Government Ministries or Departments State-run Health organizations Police and fire departments Visit the site: https://publicbod...

Purpose

This script copies and imports the information about the Brazilian federal government organizational structure from the open data API at

https://dados.gov.br/dataset/siorg

It saves the data as a csv file in the schema used by the public bodies project.

Dependencies

  • python-slugify to generate user-friendly ids
  • requests, to fetch data through http(s)
  • pandas, for some data transformations

Installation

Simply create and activate a virtual environment

$ python3 -m venv env
$ source env/bin/activate

and install the dependencies.

(env)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

With the Python environment active, just run the import_br.py script.

(env)$ python import_br.py

As an optional parameter, you can specify the path and file name of the csv file output.