US Congress Trades Politician Trades API
Scrape US Congress Trades Politician Trades data with one API call. Returns every STOCK Act disclosure for one politician, keyed by last name. Same row shape as GET /v1/us_congress_trades/trades. Sort by publication date, trade date, value, or reporting gap.
Last updated October 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team
Returns every STOCK Act disclosure for one politician, keyed by last name.
Use it after members or politician when you want that member's filings, not the summary.
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The Politician Trades 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/trades?handle=Pelosi"import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/us_congress_trades/politician/trades",
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/trades?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. |
| sort | No | pub_date (default), tx_date, value, or reporting_gap. (pub_date | tx_date | value | reporting_gap) |
| order | No | desc (default) or asc. (asc | desc) |
| limit | No | Page size, 1 to 100. Default 20. |
| offset | No | Rows to skip. Prefer the universal cursor parameter. |
What does the US Congress Trades Politician Trades 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/trades",
"data": {
"items": [
{
"transaction_id": "20003802223",
"politician_id": "P000197",
"issuer_id": "430143",
"pub_date": "2026-08-24T13:00:28Z",
"filing_date": null,
"tx_date": "2026-07-28",
"tx_type": "buy",
"tx_type_extended": null,
"value": 750000,
"price": null,
"size": null,
"ownership": "spouse",
"chamber": "house",
"comment": "Description: Purchased 100 call options with a strike price of $100 and an expiration date of 6/17/27.",
"reporting_gap": 24,
"issuer_name": "Bloom Energy Corp",
"issuer_ticker": "BE:US",
"issuer_sector": "industrials",
"issuer_country": "us",
"politician_first_name": "Nancy",
"politician_last_name": "Pelosi",
"politician_party": "democrat",
"politician_state": "ca"
},
{
"transaction_id": "20003802225",
"politician_id": "P000197",
"issuer_id": "432464",
"pub_date": "2026-08-24T13:00:28Z",
"filing_date": null,
"tx_date": "2026-07-24",
"tx_type": "buy",
"tx_type_extended": null,
"value": 750000,
"price": 92.32,
"size": null,
"ownership": "spouse",
"chamber": "house",
"comment": "Description: Purchased 10,000 shares.",
"reporting_gap": 28,
"issuer_name": "Intel Corp",
"issuer_ticker": "INTC:US",
"issuer_sector": "information-technology",
"issuer_country": "us",
"politician_first_name": "Nancy",
"politician_last_name": "Pelosi",
"politician_party": "democrat",
"politician_state": "ca"
}
],
"next_cursor": "20",
"total": 56,
"dropped": 0
},
"credits_used": 1,
"request_id": "req_example000000",
"cached": false,
"pagination": {
"next_cursor": "sc.eyJ2IjoyLCJjIjoiMjAiLCJlIjoidXNfY29uZ3Jlc3NfdHJhZGVzL3BvbGl0aWNpYW4vdHJhZGVzIiwicCI6Im9mZnNldCJ9",
"has_more": true,
"page_size": 20
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"source": "captured",
"captured_at": "2026-10-02T15:41:05.385Z",
"redacted": true
}Live sample illustrating the unified response shape. Field values reflect the record you query.
How does the US Congress Trades Politician Trades 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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