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alepe

Tidy access to the open data API of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil (ALEPE): representatives, staff, positions, departments, remuneration, contracts, procurement, and legislative propositions — as tibbles with clean names and parsed types.

  • Built on httr2: local caching, automatic retries with exponential backoff, descriptive user agent.
  • Graceful failures: network problems warn and return typed zero-row tibbles — your pipeline keeps running.
  • Friendly progress messages via cli, silenceable with options(alepe.quiet = TRUE).

Installation 

# CRAN (once accepted)
install.packages("alepe")

# Development version
pak::pak("StrategicProjects/alepe")

Quick start 

library(alepe)
library(dplyr)

# Current representatives
alepe_representatives()

# Permanent staff, largest departments
alepe_staff(status = "permanent") |>
  count(nome_lotacao, sort = TRUE)

# Contracts active today
alepe_contracts() |>
  filter(vigencia_inicio <= Sys.Date(), vigencia_fim >= Sys.Date())

# Bills of a given year
alepe_bills(year = 2024)

Filter values use an English vocabulary ("permanent", "commissioned", "seconded"), but the original API terms ("efetivo", "comissionado", "a-disposicao") are accepted as well. Column names keep the official Portuguese field names, normalized to snake_case, so results stay traceable to the source.

Part of a family of packages for Brazilian public data sharing the same httr2/cli design, developed at CASTLab/UFPE: transferegovr, tcepe, comex, ibger.

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing you agree to abide by its terms.