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Database of Public Bodies (Government Entities)

Luccas Mateus
Luccas Mateus

A database of public bodies (or organizations) around the world, such as government departments, ministries etc.

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.