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Find my representatives

See federal, state, city, and local political representatives for any U.S. address

03-25-2025 update:
Google has discontinued their Representatives API, effective April 30. The live site has been taken down.

07-20-2024 update:
Firefox issue: Establishing a connection to the server's web socket to send image fetching updates does not work, even though they are being fetched. There are no issues with Chrome.

Note:
This site doesn't use an image API. It uses Selenium to scrape Base64 images individually from a Google Images query, so they take longer to load.

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  • Express backend
  • vanilla JS templating engine
  • Node Selenium image scraper
  • socket.io for displaying progress when fetching images

Data sources

  • Google Civic Information API
  • Google Images

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