Congress Stock Trades API - Financial Disclosures Scraper

This Apify Actor provides comprehensive access to US Congressional financial disclosure and stock trading data. It allows users to scrape Periodic Transaction Reports (PTRs) from both the House and Senate, offering a clean and queryable dataset. The data includes essential details such as member name, chamber, state/district, ticker symbol, asset, transaction type, amount range, transaction date, and filing IDs. This makes it the most comprehensive Congress trading dataset available on Apify, utilized by journalists, compliance teams, and quantitative researchers for tracking conflict-of-interest patterns in compliance with the STOCK Act.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive Data: Retrieves every transaction with member name, chamber, state/district, ticker, asset, transaction type, amount range, transaction date, and reported date.

• Flexible Filtering: Allows filtering by member name, exact filing date, date range, or stock ticker symbol.

• Structured Output: Data is provided as JSON in the Apify dataset, with one row per PTR transaction line.

• Pre-built Views: Offers pre-built dataset views for Purchases, Sales, Options trades, and Stock trades for easier analysis.

• Audit Trails: Includes echoed search metadata on every row, such as timestamp, query timing, and result count, for audit purposes.

Use Cases:

• Investigative Journalism: Track unusual trades around legislative events or hearings.

• Conflict-of-Interest Research: Map a member's holdings against their committee assignments.

• Quant/Signal Research: Build features based on Congress trade timing and direction.

• Compliance & ESG: Monitor public funds and pensioners for exposure to insider patterns.

• Civic Transparency: Power public-facing dashboards showing congressional trading activity.

Input Parameters:

All parameters are optional. Running without input retrieves the most recent transactions.

• First Name: Filter by the first name of the member (case-insensitive partial match).

• Last Name: Filter by the last name of the member (case-insensitive partial match).

• Date Reported: Filter by the exact transaction date (YYYY-MM-DD).

• Start Date: Earliest transaction date to include (YYYY-MM-DD).

• End Date: Latest transaction date to include (YYYY-MM-DD).

• Stock Symbol: Filter by ticker symbol (e.g., AAPL, MSFT, NVDA).

• Max Results: Cap on the number of results returned (1-1000).

Pricing:

Pay-per-event model:

• Run initiation: $0.005 per run

• Transaction returned: $0.0025 per row

This tool is built using Apify, a platform for web scraping and automation, and leverages technologies like Python and JavaScript for its backend operations. The Crawlee library is used for web scraping and crawling.

Example Tasks & Use Cases:

Track Congressional TSMC (TSM) Stock Trades — Monitor US Congress members buying and selling Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) shares for semiconductor-sector transparency.

Track Congressional AMD Stock Trades — Follow Senate and House trades in Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to spot potential conflicts of interest in the chip industry.

Track Congressional Palantir (PLTR) Stock Trades — Scrape congressional buys and sells of Palantir Technologies stock across the defense and data-analytics sector.

Track Congressional Meta (META) Stock Trades — Track lawmakers trading Meta Platforms shares, covering purchase and sale disclosures across Big Tech.

Track Congressional Google (GOOGL) Stock Trades — Monitor Congress members trading Alphabet/Google stock, with amount ranges, dates, and filing IDs.

Track Congressional Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Trades — Follow congressional Microsoft stock transactions and STOCK Act compliance patterns.

Track Congressional Amazon (AMZN) Stock Trades — Scrape US Congress trades in Amazon shares, surfacing e-commerce and cloud-sector holdings.

Track Congressional Apple (AAPL) Stock Trades — Track lawmakers buying and selling Apple stock with detailed Periodic Transaction Report data.

Track Congressional Tesla (TSLA) Stock Trades — Monitor congressional Tesla stock trades and EV/clean-energy sector positions.

Track Congressional NVIDIA (NVDA) Stock Trades — Follow US Congress members trading NVIDIA shares, a key AI and semiconductor holding.

Get US Congress Stock Disclosures for the Last Year — Pull a full year of congressional financial disclosures and stock trades for comprehensive datasets.

Track Nancy Pelosi's Stock Trades — Search every Periodic Transaction Report filed by Nancy Pelosi, by member name, for investigative research.

Track US Congress Stock Trades Daily — Run daily scrapes of the latest congressional stock trades to power real-time transparency and trade alerts.

Keywords & Topics:

Congressional stock trading tracker, US Congress insider trading data, senator and representative stock trades, STOCK Act compliance monitoring, Periodic Transaction Report (PTR) scraper, congressional portfolio and financial disclosure API, and real-time politician trade alerts for journalists and investors.