The Legislator' Demographic Information and Background 提供委員基本資料

Provides access to legislators' basic demographic and background information through the Legislative Yuan's V1 API interface.

Usage

get_legislators(term = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

term: numeric or NULL The data is available from the 2nd term.
verbose: logical, indicates whether get_meetings should print out detailed output when retrieving the data. The default is set to TRUE.

Value

list contains:

query_time

the queried time

queried_term

the queried term

url

the retrieved json url

variable_names

the variables of the tibble dataframe

manual_info

the official manual from https://data.ly.gov.tw/getds.action?id=16, or use legisTaiwan::get_variable_info("get_legislators")

data

a tibble dataframe, whose variables include:

name: 委員姓名
ename: 委員姓名
sex: 性別
party: 黨籍
partyGroup: 黨團
committee: 委員會
onboardDate: 到職日(西元年)
degree: 學歷
experience: 經歷
picPath: 照片位址
leaveFlag: 離職日期(西元年)
leaveReason: 離職原因

Details

This function retrieves comprehensive data about legislators including their personal information, political background, and demographic details. The data is available starting from the 2nd legislative term.

get_legislators produces a list, which contains query_time, queried_term, url, variable_names, manual_info and data.

Note

To retrieve the user manual and more information about variable of the data frame, please use get_variable_info("get_legislators") or visit the API manual at https://data.ly.gov.tw/getds.action?id=16. 提供委員基本資料，最早資料可追溯至第2屆。

Author

Yen-Chieh Liao (davidycliao@gmail.com)

Examples

## query the Executives' answered response by term and the session period.
## 輸入「立委屆期」與「會期」下載「行政院答復」
get_executive_response(term = 8, session_period = 1)
#> 
#> Input Format Information:
#> ------------------------
#> Term: Must be numeric (e.g., 8, 9, 10, 11)
#> Session Period: Must be numeric (1-8)
#> ------------------------
#> 
#> Downloading executive response data...
#> 
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#> 
#> 
#> ====== Retrieved Information ======
#> -----------------------------------
#>  URL: 
#>  https://data.ly.gov.tw/odw/ID2Action.action?term=08&sessionPeriod=01&sessionTimes=&item=&fileType=json 
#>  Term:  08 
#>  Session Period:  1 
#>  Total Responses:  1065 
#> 
#> Session Distribution:
#>  Session 01: 1065
#> ===================================
#> $title
#> [1] "Executive Response Records"
#> 
#> $query_time
#> [1] "2025-09-24 10:37:43 BST"
#> 
#> $retrieved_number
#> [1] 1065
#> 
#> $retrieved_term
#> [1] "08"
#> 
#> $url
#> [1] "https://data.ly.gov.tw/odw/ID2Action.action?term=08&sessionPeriod=01&sessionTimes=&item=&fileType=json"
#> 
#> $variable_names
#>  [1] "term"          "sessionPeriod" "sessionTimes"  "meetingTimes" 
#>  [5] "eyNumber"      "lyNumber"      "subject"       "content"      
#>  [9] "docUrl"        "selectTerm"   
#> 
#> $manual_info
#> [1] "https://data.ly.gov.tw/getds.action?id=2"
#> 
#> $data
#> # A tibble: 1,065 × 10
#>    term  sessionPeriod sessionTimes meetingTimes eyNumber      lyNumber
#>    <chr> <chr>         <chr>        <chr>        <chr>         <chr>   
#>  1 08    01            01           null         （行政院函　中華民國10… （立法院函　編…
#>  2 08    01            01           null         （行政院函　中華民國10… （立法院函　編…
#>  3 08    01            01           null         （行政院函　中華民國10… （立法院函　編…
#>  4 08    01            01           null         （行政院函　中華民國10… （立法院函　編…
#>  5 08    01            01           null         （行政院函　中華民國10… （立法院函　編…
#>  6 08    01            01           null         （行政院函　中華民國10… （立法院函　編…
#>  7 08    01            01           null         （行政院函　中華民國10… （立法院函　編…
#>  8 08    01            01           null         （行政院函　中華民國10… （立法院函　編…
#>  9 08    01            01           null         （行政院函　中華民國10… （立法院函　編…
#> 10 08    01            01           null         （行政院函　中華民國10… （立法院函　編…
#> # ℹ 1,055 more rows
#> # ℹ 4 more variables: subject <chr>, content <chr>, docUrl <chr>,
#> #   selectTerm <chr>
#> 

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get data for the 9th term
legislators_data <- get_legislators(term = 9)
legislators_data
} # }