Set a list of congressional bio directory IDs in order to download members' photos. I used wget instead of requests because of a TLS handshake issue. For getting the IDs, see https://gist.github.com/greglinch/5197267b6ff8fcb19192ba5443f1f71d

download_congress_photos.py

import os

# dimensions = '225x275'
dimensions = 'original'

## add a list of IDs here based on http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
id_list = []

images_downloaded = 0

file_path = '~/Downloads/images/' 

urls = ''

for bio_id in id_list:

    img_url = 'https://theunitedstates.io/images/congress/%s/%s.jpg' % (dimensions, bio_id)
    # print img_url
    file_name = '%s.jpg' % (bio_id)
    file = file_path + file_name
    command = 'wget -O %s %s' % (file, img_url)

    try:
        os.system(command)
        
        images_downloaded += 1

        # urls += img_url + ','
    except: 
        pass
        # print 'Error:\t\t' + bio_id + '\n'

# print urls
print 'Images downloaded:\t\t' + str(images_downloaded)