# Capitol Trades Scraper: Congress Stock Trades & Monitor Mode (`getascraper/capitol-trades-scraper`) Actor

Extract every Congress stock trade from Capitol Trades: politician bio, sector tags, and a disclosure comment field competitors miss. Turn on monitor mode for scheduled trade alerts, the automation Unusual Whales charges $60 a month for. Pay per trade, no subscription. $0.62 per trade.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/getascraper/capitol-trades-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [GetAScraper](https://apify.com/getascraper) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Automation, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.47 / 1,000 trade records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Capitol Trades Scraper

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<span style="font-size:23px;font-weight:800;color:#1C1917;line-height:1.3">Congress trade alerts your inbox actually gets</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;color:#57534E;line-height:1.6">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.</span>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:800;color:#1E40AF">🔔 Trade alerts, not a static export</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">Turn on monitor mode and every scheduled run only brings back what's new since the last one.</span>
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<td style="padding:14px 12px;width:25%;background:#FFFFFF;border:1px solid #BFDBFE;border-left:none;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:800;color:#1E40AF">🧑‍⚖️ The full politician bio, every time</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">Party, chamber, state, and date of birth on every row, not just a name.</span>
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:800;color:#1E40AF">🏢 Company context included</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">Sector tags and the disclosure's own note about the company, already attached.</span>
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<td style="padding:14px 12px;width:25%;background:#FFFFFF;border:1px solid #BFDBFE;border-left:none;border-radius:0 10px 10px 0;vertical-align:top">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:800;color:#1E40AF">💵 A real number, not just a range</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">An estimated trade value sits next to the standard disclosed size band.</span>
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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](https://www.capitoltrades.com), 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

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<span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:800;color:#1D4ED8;letter-spacing:1px">STEP 1</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#1C1917">Pick your filters</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">Politician, party, chamber, state, or buy/sell, or leave them blank for everything.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:800;color:#1D4ED8;letter-spacing:1px">STEP 2</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#1C1917">Run it once, or put it on a schedule</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">Turn on monitor mode and every scheduled run only returns trades disclosed since the last one.</span>
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<span style="font-size:12px;font-weight:800;color:#1D4ED8;letter-spacing:1px">STEP 3</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:700;color:#1C1917">Get structured rows</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12px;color:#57534E">Politician, company, trade type, estimated value, and disclosure context, ready to use.</span>
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### 📥 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

```json
{
  "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.

### ⭐ Enjoying Capitol Trades Scraper?

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<span style="font-size:20px;letter-spacing:4px">⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐</span><br>
<span style="font-size:17px;font-weight:800;color:#1C1917">If this caught a trade before your other tracker did, that's worth 10 seconds of your time.</span><br>
<span style="font-size:14px;color:#57534E">A 5-star rating helps other Congress-trade watchers, signal builders, and researchers find it. Your feedback also tells us what to build next.</span>
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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.

### 🔗 Other actors

- [Congress Trades Scraper: Stock Trades & Late Filings](https://apify.com/getascraper/congress-financial-disclosures-scraper) ↗ - Official House and Senate disclosures with a STOCK Act late-filing flag.
- [SEC Form D monitor: startup funding rounds](https://apify.com/getascraper/sec-form-d-funding-monitor) ↗ - Startup funding rounds straight from SEC filings.
- [SEC Form 4 Insider Monitor: Filing Changes](https://apify.com/getascraper/sec-form4-insider-monitor) ↗ - Insider trading filing changes.
- [eToro Scraper: Top Investors & Portfolio Stats](https://apify.com/getascraper/etoro-scraper) ↗ - Risk and performance data behind every eToro top investor.
- [CryptoPanic News Scraper](https://apify.com/getascraper/cryptopanic-news-scraper) ↗ - Crypto news aggregation, no login or API key.

# Actor input Schema

## `politicians` (type: `array`):

Optional bioguide IDs to filter to specific members of Congress (e.g. P000197 for Nancy Pelosi). Leave empty to scrape all politicians.

## `party` (type: `string`):

Filter to trades by members of one party.

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

Filter to trades by House or Senate members.

## `state` (type: `string`):

Two-letter state code to filter to (e.g. ca, ny).

## `txType` (type: `string`):

Filter to buy or sell trades only.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

A real browser session is required to load Capitol Trades. Residential is recommended for reliability.

## `monitorMode` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled, only pushes trades disclosed since the previous run, so a scheduled run acts as a trade-alert feed.

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

Stop after this many trade records.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "politicians": [],
  "party": "",
  "chamber": "",
  "state": "",
  "txType": "",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "monitorMode": false,
  "maxItems": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `trades` (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 = {
    "politicians": [],
    "party": "",
    "chamber": "",
    "state": "",
    "txType": "",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    },
    "monitorMode": false,
    "maxItems": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("getascraper/capitol-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 = {
    "politicians": [],
    "party": "",
    "chamber": "",
    "state": "",
    "txType": "",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
    "monitorMode": False,
    "maxItems": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("getascraper/capitol-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 '{
  "politicians": [],
  "party": "",
  "chamber": "",
  "state": "",
  "txType": "",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  },
  "monitorMode": false,
  "maxItems": 20
}' |
apify call getascraper/capitol-trades-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,getascraper/capitol-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/xpIBU3gRUfK4Ra7yp/builds/402zWjb2yihm4bans/openapi.json