USDR-Project

Project to enhance and analyze data from the U.S. Digital Registry (USDR) using platform APIs.

USDR and its API documentation: https://usdigitalregistry.digitalgov.gov

Progress:

• Pull records from USDR API
• Integrate Twitter API
• Integrate Facebook API
• Integrate Google API for YouTube
• Create basic analysis report
• Create interactive dashboard app

Installation and Use:

1. Rename settings_example.py to settings.py and add your own platform API keys
2. Use the Python module to pull and analyze data: import usdr
3. Run the dashboard app (not working yet): $ python app.py

Main Functions:

usdr.fetchUSDR() - fetch U.S. Digital Registry social media records, save locally as a .json, and return as a Pandas dataframe

usdr.loadUSDR() - load previously saved USDR .json record as a dataframe

usdr.fetchTwitter(username_list) - fetch Twitter API records for a list of usernames, save locally as a .json, and return as a Pandas dataframe

usdr.loadTwitter() - load previously saved Twitter .json record as a dataframe

usdr.fetchFacebook(url_list) - fetch Facebook API records for a list of Facebook URLs, fetch API records for the resulting Facebook IDs, save both locally as .json files, and return the final results as a Pandas dataframe

usdr.loadFacebook() - load previously saved Facebook .json record as a dataframe

Helper Functions:

usdr.get_username(url) - determines platform and uses regex to parse a username from a URL if possible