[Bug] Error handling in govinfo.py line 73

[leonliangsc]

for collection in sorted(options.get("bulkdata", "").split(",")):
     if collection != "":
           update_sitemap(BULKDATA_SITEMAPINDEX_PATTERN.format(collection=collection), None, [], options)

will render run time error when running the recommended script for downloading bulk bill text data
./run govinfo --collections=BILLS --congress=112 --store=pdf,mods,xml,text --bulkdata=False

[dwillis]

Hi @leonliangsc: the govinfo command only works on bills from the 113th congress forward (see https://github.com/unitedstates/congress/wiki/bills for details).

[leonliangsc]

Thanks for the quick reply.
To clarify, I was referring to this script.
Even with the option --congress=116,

options.get("bulkdata", "").split(",")

will still give out error "bool value does not have split()"

[JoshData]

The wiki page is out of date. --bulkdata=False should not be used anymore in that example, I think.

[leonliangsc]

That seems to be the case.
also use --extract=pdf,mods,... instead of --store=pdf,mods

[winrid]

Note, for others, this does work in 2023:

usc-run govinfo --collections=BILLS --extract=text --bulkdata=False

If you omit the --collections argument then you get the options parse error.