Capitol Trades Scraper

Congress trade alerts your inbox actually gets Every disclosed trade from Capitol Trades, with the politician's full bio, the company's sector, and a plain-English disclosure note, delivered on a schedule instead of a page you have to remember to check.

🔔 Trade alerts, not a static export Turn on monitor mode and every scheduled run only brings back what's new since the last one.

🧑‍⚖️ The full politician bio, every time Party, chamber, state, and date of birth on every row, not just a name.

🏢 Company context included Sector tags and the disclosure's own note about the company, already attached.

💵 A real number, not just a range An estimated trade value sits next to the standard disclosed size band.

A copiers-style trade list tells you what a lawmaker bought. It doesn't tell you their party, their state, what the company does, or when the next trade shows up. This Actor pulls every trade from Capitol Trades, with the politician's bio, the company's sector, and a plain-English disclosure note attached to every row, and can watch for new trades on a schedule.

🚀 Why use it

"I built a signal feed off Congress trades." A static export wasn't good enough. I needed new disclosures to show up on their own, on a schedule, not whenever I remembered to re-run something.

"I track a handful of specific lawmakers for a newsletter." Every other tool made me scroll a giant table to find their trades. I just want their disclosures, filtered, nothing else.

"I research political-finance stories." I'm tired of copy-pasting a company description by hand for every trade. I want that context already attached to the row.

🧭 How to use it

STEP 1 Pick your filters Politician, party, chamber, state, or buy/sell, or leave them blank for everything.

STEP 2 Run it once, or put it on a schedule Turn on monitor mode and every scheduled run only returns trades disclosed since the last one.

STEP 3 Get structured rows Politician, company, trade type, estimated value, and disclosure context, ready to use.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
politicians	array of strings	No	Bioguide IDs to filter to specific members (e.g. P000197 for Nancy Pelosi). Leave empty for everyone.
party	enum	No	Filter to one party's trades.
chamber	enum	No	Filter to House or Senate.
state	string	No	Two-letter state code to filter to.
txType	enum	No	Filter to buy or sell trades only.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Connection settings. Works reliably with the default.
monitorMode	boolean	No	When on, only pushes trades disclosed since the previous run.
maxItems	integer	No	Stop after this many trade records.

📤 Output

{
  "rowType": "trade",
  "txId": 10000066727,
  "politicianFirstName": "Christopher",
  "politicianLastName": "Coons",
  "politicianNickname": "Chris",
  "politicianFullName": "Christopher Coons",
  "politicianDob": "1963-09-09",
  "politicianGender": "male",
  "party": "democrat",
  "chamber": "senate",
  "state": "de",
  "issuerName": "W L GORE & ASSOCIATES INC",
  "owner": "spouse",
  "txType": "sell",
  "txDate": "2026-08-07",
  "pubDate": "2026-08-28T14:01:53Z",
  "reportingGap": 21,
  "valueEstimate": 175000,
  "comment": "Company: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Newark, Delaware) Description: Advanced materials manufacturing",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.capitoltrades.com/trades/10000066727",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-01T06:21:45.231Z"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

🗃️ Data table

Field	Type	Description
politicianFullName	string	The trading politician's full name
politicianDob / politicianGender	string	Date of birth and gender, when disclosed
party / chamber / state	string	The politician's party, chamber, and state
issuerName / issuerTicker / issuerSector	string	The traded company and its sector
owner	string	Who made the trade: the politician, their spouse, or a dependent
txType	string	Buy or sell
txDate / pubDate	string	When the trade happened and when it was disclosed
reportingGap	number	Days between the trade and its disclosure
valueEstimate	number	An estimated trade value, the midpoint of the disclosed size range, not an exact dollar figure
comment	string	The disclosure's own note about the company, when included
sourceUrl	string	Link to the original disclosure

💰 Pricing

This Actor uses pay per event pricing: you're charged per trade extracted, and nothing else. Empty runs cost nothing. There are no subscriptions and no minimum spend.

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❓ FAQ

Does this Actor need a Capitol Trades account or API key? No. Every field comes from Capitol Trades' own public pages. There's no login, credential, or key input anywhere in this Actor.

Is valueEstimate the exact dollar amount of the trade? No. Members of Congress disclose trades in a size range, not an exact figure. valueEstimate is a single number for easier sorting and comparison, the midpoint of that disclosed range, not a confirmed exact amount. The original range context is preserved in the comment field and the source link.

Can I get alerted only about new trades, not the whole history? Yes. Turn on monitor mode and schedule the Actor to run periodically. Each run after the first only pushes trades disclosed since the previous run.

Is this legal? This Actor only extracts publicly available information already shown to any visitor of Capitol Trades' site. Always review the target site's terms of service before using the data commercially.

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