A site that scrapes and republishes information on Canada's House of Commons.

Code is released under the AGPLv3 (see below). However, any site you create using this code cannot use the openparliament.ca name or logo, except as acknowledgement.

Copyright (C) Michael Mulley (michaelmulley.com)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

This is the source code for a specific site and isn't adapted for reuse or other purposes. But if it's useful to you, that's great!

The application runs on a recent version of Python (3.12 as of this writing). Your best bet to get an environment running is probably Docker. A sample docker-compose.yml is provided in the config-examples directory; copy it into the same directory as this file and run docker compose up.

The app uses the Django framework, which can work with a variety of databases (including sqlite if you don't want to run a database server), but it's only been tested with PostgreSQL. You can download a dump of all our Parliamentary data to load into Postgres from https://openparliament.ca/data-download/.