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Operator: Blippy1998 (talk · contribs · SUL · edit count · logs · page moves · block log · rights log · ANI search)

Time filed: 07:50, Tuesday, August 19, 2025 (UTC)

Function overview: Periodically scrape information about the U.S. Congress from appropriate .gov websites and update relevant Wikipedia pages with it (e.g. templates such as Template:HouseRepublicanTally)

Automatic, Supervised, or Manual: Automatic

Programming language(s): Python (probably)

Source code available: not yet written

Links to relevant discussions (where appropriate): While there have been questions about whether the templates to be updated by the bot are appropriate in every potential use case or appropriate in their current form (see here for a short discussion), this task simply automates the updating of the templates, which has been done manually for approximately a year without complaints from the community, and there exist no discussions regarding that.

Edit period(s): Approximately daily

Estimated number of pages affected: in the future, probably less than a dozen templates (currently 3), which would together appear in probably less than 100 pages (currently 9)

Namespace(s): just Templates for now

Exclusion compliant (Yes/No): Yes

Function details: For now, scrape the official U.S. House of Representatives summary webpage of members' party affiliation daily and fill Template:HouseDemocraticTally and Template:HouseRepublicanTally with the updated numbers. This would also affect Template:HouseVacantTally. I may also add a Template:HouseIndependentTally page for completeness and have it do the same thing.

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