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Simon DiesenreiterandClaude Opus 5.5 9da5a1dc48 Politrack: track Austrian politicians from public sources
Initial import of Politrack, a self-hosted service that tracks Austrian
politicians from federal to municipal level - roles, votes, money flows,
statements, meetings, social media and legal proceedings - with every claim
linked to its sources.

- backend: FastAPI + Postgres/pgvector; adapter framework (fetch -> parse ->
  load -> enrich) with robots.txt/TDM-aware fetching, a raw-response archive
  for reparsing, and a claim/evidence model with corroboration
- sources: Parliament, Wikidata, EU Parliament/Commission, Council of
  Ministers, Rechnungshof party reports and donations, procurement, RTR media
  transparency, political ad libraries, WKStA, news feeds, Wikipedia edits,
  Bluesky, Mastodon, public Telegram channels, YouTube and X (official API)
- web: Next.js frontend in German and English with typed API client
- mcp: MCP server for AI agents and RAG
- docs: architecture, data model, sources, legal notes, Unraid deployment and
  contributor guides; Docker Compose setup for Unraid

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-28 19:47:14 +01:00

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Testing

cd backend
pytest                                   # everything below except the DB smoke test
pytest tests/test_golden.py -k parlament # one adapter's golden tests
UPDATE_GOLDEN=1 pytest tests/test_golden.py   # regenerate expected outputs (review the diff!)
suite what it covers needs
tests/test_core.py framework invariants: request identity, secret redaction, registry consistency, record serialisation, OpenAPI→TS generator, shared helpers nothing
tests/test_parsers.py parsing helpers (vote texts, CSV layouts of the Rechnungshof, dates, normalisation) nothing
tests/test_extraction.py roll-call lists, immunity reports, event/legal/office-title detection nothing
tests/test_golden.py every captured fixture replayed through adapter.parse() and compared with <case>.expected.json nothing

Parsers are pure, so none of these needs a database or network.

Golden fixtures

tests/fixtures/<adapter name>/<case>.request.json    {url, kind, meta, content_type, body_file}
tests/fixtures/<adapter name>/<case>.<ext>           the captured body
tests/fixtures/<adapter name>/<case>.expected.json   parse() output (records as JSON)

Capture with politrack fixture <adapter> <url> <case> --kind <kind> --meta '{"…": …}'. A fixture without .expected.json creates it on the first run and is skipped until you have reviewed it.

When a source changes its format: capture a new case next to the old one (keep the old one if the publisher still serves old documents in that format), fix the parser, bump parser_version.

Against a real database

The quickest end-to-end check uses the compose stack:

docker compose up -d db && docker compose run --rm migrate
docker compose run --rm api politrack run parlament.persons --max-requests 20 -p periods='["XXVIII"]'
docker compose run --rm api politrack enrich
docker compose run --rm api politrack status
curl -s localhost:8000/api/v1/stats

--max-requests keeps test runs polite. Each run is recorded in the run table (stats, errors) and shown by politrack status and /api/v1/admin/runs.

Frontend

npm run typecheck (strict TypeScript against the generated API types) and npm run build.