# US Congress Trades Stats Buy Sell API (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/us_congress_trades/stats-buy-sell)

> Returns buy vs sell counts, disclosed value, and the ratio, with optional party and sector filters plus a by-party and by-sector breakdown.

TL;DR: `GET /v1/us_congress_trades/stats/buy-sell` costs 1 credit per call and returns SocialCrawl's unified JSON schema. Single x-api-key auth, 100 free credits on signup.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `days` | no | Lookback in days, 1 to 3650. Default 365. |
| `party` | no | democrat or republican. (democrat \| republican) |
| `sector` | no | Issuer sector slug, for example information-technology. |

## Code example

```bash
curl "https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/us_congress_trades/stats/buy-sell" \
  -H "x-api-key: sc_YOUR_API_KEY"
```

## FAQ

### What does stats/buy-sell return?

Buy vs sell counts, disclosed value, and the ratio, with optional party and sector filters plus a by-party and by-sector breakdown.

### Which parameters does it take?

days is 1 to 3650, default 365. party is democrat or republican. sector is an issuer sector slug.

### How is this different from stats/party?

stats/party is counts by party. This route adds the ratio and disclosed value, and can filter by sector.

### Is the path stats/buy-sell or stats/buy/sell?

The public path is /v1/us_congress_trades/stats/buy-sell with a hyphen in the last segment.

### How is it billed?

1 credit on a live miss.

See the full US Congress Trades API: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/us_congress_trades

## Pricing

- Standard endpoints: 1 credit per call
- Advanced endpoints: 5 credits per call
- Premium endpoints: 10 credits per call
- 100 free credits on signup, no credit card required. Cached responses cost 0 credits. Credit packs never expire.
- Full pricing: https://www.socialcrawl.dev/pricing

## Explore with AI

Questions this API answers, phrased for an AI assistant:

- What is the congressional buy vs sell ratio?
- What API returns STOCK Act buy and sell totals?