US Congress Trades Politician API
Scrape US Congress Trades Politician data with one API call. Returns aggregated STOCK Act stats for one politician by last name: party, state, trade count, buy vs sell, disclosed value, average reporting gap, top tickers, and top sectors. Pass the same handle to GET /v1/us_congress_trades/politician/trades for the filings themselves.
Last updated October 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team
Returns aggregated trading stats for one politician: counts, disclosed value, reporting gap, top tickers, and top sectors.
Use it when you have a last name and want the summary. For the filings themselves call politician/trades.
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The Politician endpoint gives you structured US Congress Trades data with computed fields in a single request. No scraping infrastructure to build or maintain.
Example Request
curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/us_congress_trades/politician?handle=Pelosi"import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/us_congress_trades/politician",
params={
'handle': 'Pelosi',
},
headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
data = response.json()const response = await fetch(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/us_congress_trades/politician?handle=Pelosi",
{
headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
},
);
const data = await response.json();Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| handle | Yes | Politician last name, case-insensitive. Example: Pelosi. |
What does the US Congress Trades Politician API return?
Every response follows one unified schema. Here is a real, unmodified response body, so you can see the exact fields you get back before spending a credit.
Example response
{
"success": true,
"platform": "us_congress_trades",
"endpoint": "/v1/us_congress_trades/politician",
"data": {
"first_name": "Nancy",
"last_name": "Pelosi",
"party": "democrat",
"state": "ca",
"total_trades": 56,
"buy_count": 39,
"sell_count": 15,
"total_value": 112432516,
"avg_value": 2007723.5,
"avg_reporting_gap": 16.785714285714285,
"top_tickers": [
{
"ticker": "NVDA:US",
"issuer_name": "NVIDIA Corporation",
"count": 9
},
{
"ticker": "AAPL:US",
"issuer_name": "Apple Inc",
"count": 8
}
],
"top_sectors": [
{
"sector": "information-technology",
"count": 27
},
{
"sector": "communication-services",
"count": 7
}
],
"latest_trade_date": "2026-08-24T13:00:28Z",
"earliest_trade_date": "2023-01-26T14:05:04Z"
},
"credits_used": 1,
"request_id": "req_example000000",
"cached": false,
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"source": "captured",
"captured_at": "2026-10-02T13:06:16.334Z",
"redacted": true
}Live sample illustrating the unified response shape. Field values reflect the record you query.
How does the US Congress Trades Politician API work?
Send a GET request with your API key and get back clean, structured JSON in our unified schema. Supported computed fields are populated when the source provides the required inputs.
Method
GET
Response
JSON
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import requests
response = requests.get(
'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json(){
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"data": {
"author": {
"username": "charlidamelio",
"followers": 152400000
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 12400000000,
"engagement_rate": 0.087
},
"metadata": {
"language": "en",
"content_category": "lifestyle"
}
}
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