Fetch Legislator Detail Information — get_ly_legislator

Retrieves detailed information for a specific legislator by term and name from the Legislative Yuan API.

Usage

get_ly_legislator_detail(term, name, show_progress = TRUE)

Arguments

term: required integer. Legislative term number (e.g. 9)
name: required string. Legislator name (e.g. "王金平")
show_progress: logical. Whether to display progress info (default: TRUE)

Value

A list containing legislator details:

term: Legislative term number
name: Legislator's name in Chinese
ename: Legislator's name in English
sex: Gender
party: Political party affiliation
partyGroup: Legislative party group
areaName: Represented area
committee: Committee assignments by session
onboardDate: Date took office
degree: Education background
experience: Work experience
picUrl: URL of legislator's photo
leaveFlag: Whether has left office
leaveDate: Date left office if applicable
leaveReason: Reason for leaving if applicable
bioId: Biography ID

Details

Get Legislative Yuan Legislator Detail 取得立法委員完整歷史資料

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get legislator detail
detail <- get_ly_legislator_detail(
  term = 9,
  name = "王金平"
)

# Print basic info
cat(sprintf(
  "Name: %s (%s)\nParty: %s\nArea: %s\n",
  detail$name,
  detail$ename,
  detail$party,
  detail$areaName
))
} # }