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lobostome/furry-bear
====================

A PHP wrapper for various open data

0.7.2(9y ago)19243.3k↑16.3%5MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since May 27Pushed 6y ago4 watchersCompare

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FurryBear
---------

[](#furrybear)

A PHP wrapper for the Sunlight Foundation APIs

Quick Start
-----------

[](#quick-start)

Specify the http adapter, the API provider, and the output format.

```
$adapter = new FurryBear\Http\Adapter\Curl();
$provider = new FurryBear\Provider\Source\SunlightCongress($adapter, $apiKey);
$output = new FurryBear\Output\Strategy\JsonToArray();

$fb = new FurryBear\FurryBear();
$fb->registerProvider($provider)->registerOutput($output);

var_dump(
    $fb->bills_search->fields('official_title', 'chamber', 'introduced_on', 'search')
                     ->search('"health care" medicine')
                     ->filter('history.enacted', true)
                     ->order('introduced_on')
                     ->get()
);
```

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

For detailed documentation and examples, visit the [Wiki](https://github.com/lobostome/FurryBear/wiki).

Roadmap
-------

[](#roadmap)

**0.9.0**

- Add Sunlight Influence Explorer API

**0.8.0**

- Major overhaul of existing code base
- Add event management
- HTTP clients direct access
- Process multiple requests in parallel
- 100% unit testing

Changelog
---------

[](#changelog)

**0.7.1**

- Switch to the Congress API's HTTPS endpoint

**0.7.0**

- Add Dependency Injection Container

**0.6.0**

- Add Sunlight Political Party Time API

**0.5.2**

- Add Congress API districts locate helpers

**0.5.1**

- Alias Open States API resources
- Add Geocode Chain Provider

**0.5.0**

- Add Sunlight Open States API

**0.4.0**

- Add Sunlight Capitol Words API

###  Health Score

37

—

LowBetter than 83% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity43

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity55

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor2

2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~146 days

Recently: every ~310 days

Total

10

Last Release

3423d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dede85c53aaa171b9c6b028925e0c37775d39f54ddd5c33b9ec8d1b238377192?d=identicon)[lobostome](/maintainers/lobostome)

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Top Contributors

[![evanhsu](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/189640?v=4)](https://github.com/evanhsu "evanhsu (1 commits)")[![johnpbloch](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/446833?v=4)](https://github.com/johnpbloch "johnpbloch (1 commits)")[![lobostome](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2576722?v=4)](https://github.com/lobostome "lobostome (1 commits)")

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Tags

open dataSunlight Congress APISunlight Capitol Words APISunlight Open States API

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