Journalism Python Packages

cpi

Quickly adjust U.S. dollars for inflation using the Consumer Price Index (CPI)

reuters-style

A Python library format dates, numbers and text to conform with the Reuters Style Guide, the standards that guide the world's largest independent newsroom

atcf-data-parser

A Python parser for the a-deck data posted online by the Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting System

bln

Python client for the biglocalnews.org API

warn-scraper

Command-line interface for downloading WARN Act notices of qualified plant closings and mass layoffs from state government websites

warn-transformer

Consolidate, enrich and republish the data gathered by warn-scraper

isobands

Generate filled contour polygons from raster data with Python.

newsblog-composer-mcp

Turns a news headline into a verified, ready-to-publish blog post corroborates the story across independent publishers, extracts sourced facts, writes the article, and builds the SEO, schema and banner prompt around it.

datawrapper-mcp

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and app for creating Datawrapper charts using AI assistants.

civic-scraper

Tools for downloading agendas, minutes and other documents produced by local government

django-calaccess-raw-data

A Django app to download, extract and load campaign finance and lobbying activity data from the California Secretary of State's CAL-ACCESS database

newshomepages

An open-source archive that gathers, saves, shares and analyzes news homepages

ipsos-credibility-interval

A Python tool that calculates Bayesian credibility intervals for online polling using the Ipsos method

uglypy

Retrieve, aggregate, filter, evaluate, rewrite and serve RSS feeds using Large Language Models for fun, research and learning purposes

flip-notebook

Format and tooling for agent-driven research notebooks

geomac-wildfires

Download wildfires data from the National Interagency Fire Center

django-calaccess-scraped-data

A Django app to scrape campaign-finance data from the California Secretary of State’s CAL-ACCESS website

air-quality-index

Download air quality index data from AirNow

storysniffer

Inspect a URL and estimate if it contains a news story

census-data-aggregator

Combine U.S. census data responsibly

inciweb-wildfires

Download wildfire incidents data from InciWeb

calfire-wildfires

Download wildfires data from CalFire

census-map-downloader

Easily download U.S. census maps

pybigkinds

BigKinds Data Analysis Toolkit for python