Capitol Trades Congress Stock Trades Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

Every member of Congress who trades stocks has to disclose it, and the filings are scattered across House and Senate sites. This Actor reads the public disclosure feed on Capitol Trades and hands back one clean row per trade: who traded, which party, chamber and state, what issuer and ticker, when they traded and when it was published, whether it was a buy or a sell, the size bracket (with numeric min and max in USD) and the price. Narrow it by politician Bioguide id, issuer id, ticker or trade type, or just pull the latest feed. Data comes from public STOCK Act disclosures; Devil Scrapes is not affiliated with Capitol Trades.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ We rotate browser fingerprints so the target sees a real browser, not a Python script.
• 🔁 We retry with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx and honour Retry-After, up to 5 attempts per page.
• 🌐 We rotate proxy sessions through Apify Proxy on every block.
• 🧊 We keep the dataset clean -- Pydantic-validated rows, ISO-8601 dates, stable trade ids.
• 🧱 A failed page never kills the run -- we skip it, keep going, and report it in the status message.
• 💰 You pay only for results that land. No matching trades, no row charges (only the small start fee).

💡 Use cases

• Retail-signal and quant feeds -- ingest congressional buys and sells with numeric size bounds as a raw factor.
• Fintech newsletters and dashboards -- surface the latest politician trades in a daily or weekly brief.
• Political-finance journalism -- pull every disclosed trade for one lawmaker by Bioguide id, with filing delay in days.
• Watchlist monitoring -- keep only the tickers you care about with the ticker filter.
• Compliance and research -- compare trade dates against publication dates across parties and chambers.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the API.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
politician_ids	array	no	[]	Bioguide ids (e.g. P000197). One query per id. Leave empty for all politicians.
issuer_ids	array	no	[]	Capitol Trades issuer ids (digits). One query per id; combined with politician ids as a cross product.
tx_type	string	no	'all'	Only buys, only sells, or all trades.
name_contains	string	no	'—'	Case-insensitive filter on politician or issuer name, applied to fetched rows.
tickers	array	no	[]	Keep only rows whose ticker matches (e.g. NVDA or NVDA:US).
max_pages	integer	no	3	Page cap per query (96 rows per page).
max_rows	integer	no	300	Global cap on rows emitted; the run stops fetching once reached.
proxy_configuration	object	no	{'useApifyProxy': True}	Apify datacenter proxy by default. Residential is opt-in.

Example input

{
  "politician_ids": [
    "P000197"
  ],
  "max_pages": 1,
  "max_rows": 5,
  "proxy_configuration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
trade_id	string	Capitol Trades trade id.
trade_url	string	Absolute trade-detail URL.
politician_id	string	Bioguide id.
politician_name	string	Politician name.
party	string	Party.
chamber	string	House or Senate.
state	string	US state code.
issuer_id	string	Capitol Trades issuer id.
issuer_name	string	Issuer name.
ticker	string	Ticker as served, e.g. NOW:US.
published_at	string	ISO date the disclosure was published.
published_raw	string	Published cell text as served.
traded_at	string	ISO date of the trade.
traded_raw	string	Traded cell text as served.
filed_after_days	integer	Days between trade and filing.
owner	string	Owner: Joint, Spouse, Self, Child, Undisclosed.
tx_type	string	buy, sell or exchange.
size_range	string	Size bucket string, en dash preserved.
size_min_usd	integer	Lower bound of size bucket in USD.
size_max_usd	integer	Upper bound of size bucket in USD.
price_usd	number	Price per unit in USD.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 UTC scrape time.

Example output

{
  "trade_id": "20003802997",
  "trade_url": "https://www.capitoltrades.com/trades/20003802997",
  "politician_id": "S000168",
  "politician_name": "Maria Elvira Salazar",
  "party": "Republican",
  "chamber": "House",
  "state": "FL",
  "issuer_id": "2264488",
  "issuer_name": "Berkshire Hathaway Inc",
  "ticker": "BRK/B:US",
  "published_at": "2026-10-08",
  "published_raw": "Yesterday",
  "traded_at": "2026-09-24",
  "traded_raw": "24 Sept 2026",
  "filed_after_days": 13,
  "owner": "Undisclosed",
  "tx_type": "sell",
  "size_range": "1K–15K",
  "size_min_usd": 1000,
  "size_max_usd": 15000,
  "price_usd": 505.18,
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-09T03:49:55+00:00"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.20	One-off warm-up charge per run
trade-row	$0.0025	PPE event

Example: 1 000 trades at the rates above ≈ $2.70. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit.

🚧 Limitations

• Trade-level rows only -- politician profiles, issuer profiles and portfolio statistics are out of scope.
• Size is a disclosure bracket, not an exact dollar amount.
• Name and ticker filters are applied to fetched rows; use politician and issuer ids to narrow the pages fetched.
• Each run is capped by max pages per query and max rows, so large pulls take several runs or higher caps.

❓ FAQ

Where does the data come from?

From the public STOCK Act disclosures of US House and Senate members, as listed on Capitol Trades. Devil Scrapes is not affiliated with Capitol Trades.

How do I find a politician's id?

Use the Bioguide id, e.g. P000197 for Nancy Pelosi. It is the id in the politician's Capitol Trades profile link.

Why is the size a range instead of an exact amount?

Disclosures report value brackets, not exact amounts. We keep the bracket string as published and add size_min_usd and size_max_usd as integers so you can filter and sort.

What does a null ticker or price mean?

Some disclosed assets (municipal bonds, private funds, options) have no listed ticker or price. We return those rows with the field set to null rather than dropping them.

What happens if my filters match nothing?

The run succeeds with zero rows and a status message listing the filters searched. You pay only the small start fee.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab on Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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