Your MP – Google Desktop Gadget

Your MP Small LogoI was playing around with the Google Desktop Search API again at the weekend and threw together a gadget that queries the TheyWorkForYou.com UK MP database. It basically enables you to gather all sorts of interesting info about various MPs, Peers, debates and committees.

This gadget is just a simple interface so you can enter your postcode and the panel then shows your local MP with links to their profiles (BBC, Wikipedia and the Guardian) with the list of the most recent debates they’ve been involved in.  All of this is done with three requests to their server resulting in three seperate JSON responses.  The first response is used to get the “person_id” which is necessary for the next two which retrieve further info and debates listings.

The gadget is hosted on Google’s Code Project Hosting site and released under GPL 3 so anyones free to tinker if they wish.

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4 Comments to “Your MP – Google Desktop Gadget”

  1. Gadget Reviews 5 May 2008 at 3:59 pm #

    Keep up the good work, great article!

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  4. gazza 12 September 2010 at 10:46 pm #

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