R/get_recent_congressional_statements_by_term.R

In ProPublicaR: Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

#' Get Congressional Statements by Search Term
#'
#' To get lists of statements published on congressional websites using a search term, use the following function. HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/congress/v1/statements/search.json?query={term}
#'
#' @param term search term
#' @inheritParams get_new_members
#'
#' @return List of returned JSON from endpoint that retrieves the 20 most recent results that contain the search term in the title or body of the statement and supports pagination using multiples of 20.
#' @export
#'
#' @examples
#' \dontrun{
#' get_recent_congressional_statements_by_term('AHCA')
#' }
get_recent_congressional_statements_by_term <- function(term, page = 1, myAPI_Key){
  API = 'congress'
  query <- sprintf("statements/search.json?query=%s", term)
  pp_query(query, API, page = page, myAPI_Key = myAPI_Key)
}