Legislative Explorer

A historical Legislative Yuan member and parliamentary record search system.

Supports legislators from the 1st through 11th Legislative Yuan, including member directories, profiles, legislative proposals, attendance records, and parliamentary proceedings.

Features

• Search legislators by term and name
• View official member profiles and service history
• Browse legislative proposals and co-signatories
• Browse parliamentary meetings, attendance, and questioning records
• Support for the 1st–11th Legislative Yuan

Architecture

• Pure static website
• HTML5, CSS3, and modern JavaScript
• No backend
• No database
• No npm runtime dependency
• Hash-based routing
• IndexedDB for client-side caching

Data Sources

Terms 2–11

Data is retrieved from the OpenFun Legislative Yuan API, which provides CORS-enabled access to Legislative Yuan data.

Term 1

Historical data from the Legislative Yuan National Library is stored as static JSON under:

static/data/term-01-legislators.json

Development

Start a local static server:

python3 -m http.server 8000

Then open:

http://localhost:8000

Deployment

The project can be deployed directly to GitHub Pages or Vercel as a static site.

License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0).

See LICENSE for the full license text.