# US Congress Trades Trades API (https://www.socialcrawl.dev/platforms/us_congress_trades/trades)

> Returns STOCK Act disclosures across the House and Senate. Filter by ticker (AAPL or AAPL:US), politician last name, party, chamber, sector, transaction type, and publication date range. Sort by publication date, trade date, disclosed value, or reporting gap. Page with offset. Each row has the politician, issuer, ticker, buy/sell/exchange, disclosed value, dates, and reporting gap in days.

TL;DR: `GET /v1/us_congress_trades/trades` 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 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `ticker` | no | Stock ticker. Bare symbols such as AAPL are sent as AAPL:US. Use AAPL:US when the search filter would otherwise miss. |
| `politician` | no | Politician last name (case-insensitive). |
| `party` | no | democrat or republican. (democrat \| republican) |
| `chamber` | no | senate or house. (senate \| house) |
| `sector` | no | Issuer sector slug, for example information-technology or health-care. |
| `tx_type` | no | buy, sell, or exchange. (buy \| sell \| exchange) |
| `start_date` | no | Publication date lower bound (YYYY-MM-DD). |
| `end_date` | no | Publication date upper bound (YYYY-MM-DD). |
| `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. |

## Code example

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

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