# Congressional Trades Scraper (`aurenic/congress-trades-scraper`) Actor

Extract US Congress stock trades and financial disclosures from the free Bargo Congress Trades API. House + Senate, normalized JSON. No browser, no proxy, no PDF parsing.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aurenic/congress-trades-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Aurenic](https://apify.com/aurenic) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.60 / 1,000 results

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# README

## Congressional Trades Scraper

Extract US Congress stock trades and financial disclosures from the free Bargo Congress Trades API. House + Senate, normalized JSON. No browser, no proxy, no PDF parsing.

### What does Congressional Trades Scraper do?

Scrape every publicly disclosed stock trade by members of the US Congress under the STOCK Act, in four modes:

- **Trades** — the global trade feed, or filtered by ticker, member, chamber, transaction type, and date range.
- **Members** — every tracked member of Congress with trade counts, buy/sell breakdown, and last-trade date.
- **Member detail** — one member's full profile plus every disclosed trade.
- **Stats** — aggregate dataset statistics and freshness.

The data comes from the **Bargo Congress Trades API**, a free, keyless-by-default REST service that normalizes official House Clerk and Senate eFD disclosures into a single JSON schema. No API key required to try it — a free key raises daily quotas.

### Output fields

#### Trade

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| tradeId | Unique trade identifier |
| member / memberSlug | Member name and slug |
| chamber | `house` or `senate` |
| party | Political party |
| state | State |
| ticker / assetName | Stock ticker and asset name |
| transactionType | `buy`, `sell`, or `exchange` |
| transactionDate | Date the trade happened |
| disclosureDate | Date it was filed |
| amountRange | Disclosed amount bracket |
| amountLow / amountHigh | Numeric bounds parsed from the bracket |
| daysToDisclose | Days between trade and disclosure |
| isLateFiling | Flag for filings past the 45-day STOCK Act window |
| sourceUrl | Link to the original filing |

#### Member

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| slug | Member slug |
| name | Display name |
| chamber / party / state / district | Political identity |
| totalTrades | Total disclosed trades |
| buyCount / sellCount | Buy and sell breakdown |
| lastTradeDate / firstTradeDate | Activity range |

### Who is it for?

- **Quant researchers** building signals from congressional trading patterns
- **Investigative journalists** tracking trades around hearings and votes
- **Compliance and ESG teams** monitoring exposure to insider patterns
- **Fintech builders** powering "who traded what, when" widgets
- **Civic transparency platforms** publishing searchable trade databases
- **Algo traders** piping structured JSON into strategy pipelines

### Pricing

**$0.60 per 1,000 results.** No subscription.

| Results | Cost |
|---|---|
| 100 | $0.06 |
| 1,000 | $0.60 |
| 10,000 | $6.00 |

### How to use it

1. Pick a **Mode**.
2. For trades mode: optionally filter by **Tickers**, **Members**, **Chamber**, **Transaction Type**, and **Date Range**.
3. For memberDetail mode: enter **Member slugs**.
4. Optionally paste a free **Bargo API key** to raise quotas.
5. Click **Start**.

### Output example

```json
{
  "recordType": "trade",
  "tradeId": "abc123",
  "member": "Nancy Pelosi",
  "memberSlug": "nancy-pelosi",
  "chamber": "house",
  "party": "D",
  "state": "CA",
  "ticker": "NVDA",
  "assetName": "NVIDIA Corporation",
  "transactionType": "buy",
  "transactionDate": "2026-06-15",
  "disclosureDate": "2026-07-01",
  "amountRange": "$1,000,001 - $5,000,000",
  "amountLow": 1000001,
  "amountHigh": 5000000,
  "daysToDisclose": 16,
  "isLateFiling": false,
  "sourceUrl": "https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/ptr-pdfs/2026/20034567.pdf",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-23T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Technical details

- **Bargo Congress Trades API** — `https://www.bargo.ai/free-apis/congress/v1`. Free, keyless by default, normalized JSON.
- **Official sources** — House Clerk (`disclosures-clerk.house.gov`) + Senate eFD (`efdsearch.senate.gov`), normalized by Bargo.
- **No PDF parsing** — Bargo returns structured data directly. Unlike other actors that download and parse PTR PDFs, this actor works entirely through the JSON API.
- **No browser, no proxy** — pure REST.
- **Free tier:** 30 requests/day, 100 rows/day (keyless). **Free key:** 100 requests/day, 1,000 rows/day. Get one at `https://www.bargo.ai/free-apis/dash`.
- **Coverage window:** last 3 months of disclosures on the free tier.

### Known limits

- **Free tier is row-limited.** Keyless: 100 rows/day. Free key: 1,000 rows/day. For production runs (10,000+ trades), you'll need to supply a key or split across days.
- **3-month window.** The Bargo free tier covers the last 3 months of disclosures. Older trades are not available through this actor.
- **Anonymous requests share an IP quota.** Without a key, all Apify users share the same IP-based quota — a free personal key eliminates that contention.
- **No historical archive.** For trades older than 3 months, the House Clerk ZIP archive and Senate eFD are the upstream sources. Those require PDF parsing and are not covered by this actor.
- **Late-filing flag depends on Bargo's normalization.** Fields like `isLateFiling` and `daysToDisclose` are computed by Bargo, not the raw filing.

### FAQ

**Do I need an API key?** No — the Bargo API is keyless by default. A free key raises the daily quota from 100 to 1,000 rows.

**Do I need a proxy?** No. Datacenter IPs are accepted.

**Does this cover both chambers?** Yes — House and Senate, in one normalized schema.

**How do I get a free key?** Visit `https://www.bargo.ai/free-apis/dash` and register.

**How do I get older data?** For pre-3-month disclosures, the upstream sources are House Clerk (`disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/{YEAR}FD.zip`) and Senate eFD (`efdsearch.senate.gov`). Those require PDF parsing and are out of scope for this actor.

**How do I export data?** After a run, go to Storage → Export as JSON, CSV, Excel.

### Support

Open an issue on the Actor's page for bugs or feature requests.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to fetch.

## `tickers` (type: `array`):

Stock tickers to filter by (e.g. NVDA, AAPL, TSLA). Leave empty for the global trade feed.

## `members` (type: `array`):

Member slugs (e.g. nancy-pelosi). Used in memberDetail mode, or as a filter in trades mode.

## `chamber` (type: `string`):

Filter by chamber.

## `transactionType` (type: `string`):

Filter by transaction type.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Earliest transaction date (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Latest transaction date (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `bargoApiKey` (type: `string`):

Optional free key from https://www.bargo.ai/free-apis/dash. Without a key: 30 requests/day, 100 rows/day. With a free key: 100 requests/day, 1,000 rows/day.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on records per run.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Delay between API requests.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "trades",
  "tickers": [
    "NVDA",
    "AAPL"
  ],
  "members": [],
  "chamber": "",
  "transactionType": "",
  "dateFrom": "",
  "dateTo": "",
  "bargoApiKey": "",
  "maxItems": 500,
  "requestDelayMs": 300
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "tickers": [
        "NVDA",
        "AAPL"
    ],
    "members": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("aurenic/congress-trades-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "tickers": [
        "NVDA",
        "AAPL",
    ],
    "members": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("aurenic/congress-trades-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "tickers": [
    "NVDA",
    "AAPL"
  ],
  "members": []
}' |
apify call aurenic/congress-trades-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,aurenic/congress-trades-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/d63CDKRTYFCqctxDN/builds/ET2LyhjoNBUfzyM84/openapi.json