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SP500 components survivorship bias question

I see that I can get all the component changes in SP500 using this data:

https://www.quantopian.com/data/eventvestor/index_changes

Do I need to manually program that into my algo ? For example, I would have to program in from 1/1/2000 to 1/1/2002, I have to include XYZ and 1/2/2002 to 1/2/2003, I have to take out XYZ and put in ABC based on the data I get from eventvestor. There is no way I can define SP500 basket and feed it with eventvestor data and it would know to adjust ?