Return search results from legiscan's database

Return search results from legiscan's database. Check legiscan.com for specific search syntax for more details.

Usage

legiSearch(
  query = NULL,
  state = "ALL",
  year = 2,
  sessionID = NULL,
  page = 1,
  maxPages = 10,
  legiKey = NULL
)

Arguments

query: Enter your search text. Your query may use grammatically correct spacing. Use legiscan's search syntax for more powerful results.
state: Search the entire nation by default with 'ALL' or specify state using letter abbreviations. Ignored when `sessionID` is supplied
year: Should be an integer. 1=All, 2=Current, 3=Recent, 4=Prior, >1900=Exact Year. Ignored when `sessionID` is supplied
sessionID: Limit search to specific session with a session_id
page: Default is set to return Page 1. `legiSearch` will paginate and include results.
maxPages: Maximum number of pages to fetch. Each page is one API query against your monthly quota. Use `Inf` to fetch every page.
legiKey: 32 character string provided by legiscan

Value

A data frame (tibble) of search results combined across fetched pages. Nonempty results retain the columns supplied by the API. When no results are found, a warning is issued and a zero-row tibble is returned with columns relevance, state, bill_number, bill_id, change_hash, url, text_url, research_url, last_action_date, last_action, and title.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
legiSearch(
  query = "action:yesterday AND 'workers compensation'",
  state = "TX"
)

legiSearch(
  query = "intro:month AND wage theft"
)
} # }