Congress & Insider Trades API — STOCK Act PTRs + SEC Form 4

Every disclosed stock trade by people who are legally required to disclose one, in one schema: members of the U.S. House and Senate filing periodic transaction reports under the STOCK Act, and corporate officers, directors and ten-percent owners filing SEC Form 4. Same columns, same run, same query.

Read straight from the three systems that publish them — the Clerk of the House, the Senate Office of Public Records (eFD) and SEC EDGAR. No aggregator sits in the middle.

What this is. Filer-reported, delayed evidence. A periodic transaction report is due within 45 days of the trade and appears one to two business days after it is submitted; a Form 4 is due within two business days. Congressional amounts are ranges, not exact figures. Filings are amended. This is not investment advice, and it is not a feed of live trades — it is a machine-readable copy of public disclosure documents, with a link to each one.

At a glance

Input — this is the Store prefill; paste it and run:

{ "sources": ["house", "senate", "form4"], "dateBasis": "disclosure", "userAgentContact": "Insight Solutions austinhughhillis@gmail.com", "maxTransactions": 300, "maxFilings": 40, "maxHouseFilings": 15, "includeSummary": true }

Replace userAgentContact with your own organisation and address before you use the Form 4 half for real — the SEC answers HTTP 403 without one.

Output — one row per disclosed transaction; the fields you will use most are filerName, ticker, side, amountRange, transactionDate, disclosureDate and filingUrl (full list under Output reference). Anything that could not be fetched comes back as a free diagnostic row (ok: false, errorType, error) instead of a charge.

Price — $0.50 per 1,000 transactions on the FREE tier (+ $0.001 per run); diagnostic rows, scanned filings that could not be read, every summary and cluster row, transactions your filters excluded and a run that returns nothing are all free. Pay-per-event, no API key, no browser, limited permissions — works over the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com) and with agentic (x402) payments.

From code — client.actor("insight.solutions/congress-insider-trades-api").call(run_input={"tickers": ["NVDA"], "transactionTypes": ["buy"]}) with apify-client, or POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/insight.solutions~congress-insider-trades-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items.

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What you get

One row per disclosed transaction. Same columns whoever traded:

{
  "rowType": "transaction",
  "source": "house",
  "insiderType": "congress",
  "chamber": "house",
  "filerName": "Nancy Pelosi",
  "party": "D",
  "state": "CA",
  "district": 11,
  "bioguideId": "P000197",
  "committees": [],
  "owner": "spouse",
  "ticker": "GOOGL",
  "assetName": "Alphabet Inc. - Class A Common Stock (GOOGL) [ST]",
  "assetType": "ST — Stocks (including ADRs)",
  "side": "buy",
  "transactionType": "P",
  "amountMin": 500001,
  "amountMax": 1000000,
  "amountMidpoint": 750000.5,
  "amountRange": "$500,001 - $1,000,000",
  "transactionDate": "2026-01-16",
  "notificationDate": "2026-01-16",
  "disclosureDate": "2026-01-23",
  "daysToDisclose": 7,
  "filingDeadlineDays": 45,
  "complianceStatus": "on-time",
  "daysLate": 0,
  "description": "Purchased 25,000 shares.",
  "filingId": "20033725",
  "filingType": "PTR",
  "filingUrl": "https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/ptr-pdfs/2026/20033725.pdf",
  "parseStatus": "parsed"
}

…and the same row for a corporate insider, with the fields that only Form 4 has:

{
  "rowType": "transaction",
  "source": "form4",
  "insiderType": "corporate",
  "filerName": "Taich Adam",
  "reporterRoles": ["officer"],
  "officerTitle": "Chief Financial Officer",
  "issuerName": "10x Genomics, Inc.",
  "issuerCik": "0001770787",
  "ticker": "TXG",
  "side": "sell",
  "transactionCode": "S",
  "transactionCodeLabel": "Open-market or private sale",
  "acquiredDisposed": "D",
  "shares": 31428,
  "pricePerShare": 64.3097,
  "value": 2021125.25,
  "sharesOwnedAfter": 330098,
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-09",
  "disclosureDate": "2026-09-11",
  "daysToDisclose": 2,
  "filingDeadlineDays": 2,
  "complianceStatus": "on-time",
  "filingType": "4",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1770787/000161071726000414/0001610717-26-000414-index.htm"
}

ticker, side, transactionDate, disclosureDate and daysToDisclose mean the same thing on both. That is the whole point: "everyone required to disclose who bought NVDA in September" is one query, not two datasets and a join.

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Quick start

Leave everything on its defaults and run it. You get the last 60 days of House and Senate periodic transaction reports plus the latest market-wide Form 4s.

Some things people actually ask:

You want	Input
Everything Nancy Pelosi disclosed this year	{ "members": ["Pelosi"], "dateFrom": "2026-01-01" }
Who in Congress bought NVDA	{ "tickers": ["NVDA"], "transactionTypes": ["buy"], "sources": ["house", "senate"] }
Senate only, last month	{ "chamber": "senate", "dateFrom": "2026-08-01" }
Energy and Commerce members' energy trades	{ "committees": ["Energy and Commerce"], "tickers": ["XOM", "CVX"] }
Filings that missed the 45-day deadline	{ "lateFilingsOnly": true }
NVIDIA insiders, open-market only	{ "sources": ["form4"], "issuers": ["NVDA"], "transactionCodes": ["P", "S"] }
Trades over $100k in March, by trade date	{ "minAmount": 100000, "dateFrom": "2026-03-01", "dateTo": "2026-03-31", "dateBasis": "transaction" }
A cheap daily monitor	{ "incremental": true, "maxTransactions": 0 } on a schedule

Set userAgentContact to your own organisation and address before you use the Form 4 half for real. The SEC requires every automated request to say who is making it and how to reach them, and answers HTTP 403 without it. The prefilled value is the publisher's, so the example run works out of the box.

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Use cases

• Follow one ticker across both halves of the disclosure system — a single tickers query returns the members of Congress and the corporate officers who traded it, in the same columns, instead of two datasets and a join.
• Watch a member, a committee or a delegation — members, committees, states and party are applied to the index before any document is downloaded, so a narrow question stays a cheap run.
• Report on late disclosure — lateFilingsOnly, daysToDisclose, complianceStatus and daysLate turn the STOCK Act's 45-day deadline into a column you can sort, with the filing linked on every row.
• Run a cheap daily monitor — incremental: true on a schedule returns only what has been filed since the last run, and a day with nothing new finishes SUCCEEDED and costs nothing.
• Look for clustered buying — free cluster rows name every ticker three or more members of Congress bought within 30 days of each other, alongside free per-ticker and per-member summaries.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
sources	array	["house","senate","form4"]	Which disclosure systems to read
members	array	[]	Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi or Tuberville, Tommy. Applied to the index before any document is downloaded
chamber	enum	both	both, house, senate. Choosing one switches the other's source off
states	array	[]	Two-letter codes, e.g. ["CA","TX"]
party	enum	any	any, D, R, I
committees	array	[]	Substring match on the committee name, e.g. "Energy and Commerce"
ownerTypes	array	[]	self, spouse, joint, dependent
tickers	array	[]	Applies to both halves
transactionTypes	array	[]	buy, sell, exchange, other
dateFrom / dateTo	string	last 60 days / today	ISO dates
dateBasis	enum	disclosure	Which date the window applies to
minAmount	integer	0	USD. Compared to the top of a congressional band, or to a Form 4's reported value
lateFilingsOnly	boolean	false	Only filings past their deadline
issuers	array	[]	Form 4: tickers or CIKs. Empty means the latest market-wide Form 4s
maxFilingsPerIssuer	integer	25	Per issuer, newest first
includeDerivative	boolean	true	Form 4 Table II lines (options, RSUs)
reporterRoles	array	[]	officer, director, tenPercentOwner, other
transactionCodes	array	[]	Section 16 codes, e.g. ["P","S"]
userAgentContact	string	publisher's	Required for Form 4. Your organisation and contact address
incremental	boolean	false	Skip filings already returned by an earlier run
includeSummary	boolean	true	Free per-ticker, per-member and cluster rows
maxTransactions	integer	500	The number you are billed for. 0 = no cap
maxFilings	integer	200	Per source
maxHouseFilings	integer	40	A separate, lower ceiling on the House PDFs
maxConcurrency	integer	4	Filings in flight per source
maxRunSecs	integer	240	Wall-clock budget
proxyConfiguration	object	US residential	See Proxy, below

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Output reference

Every row carries every column, null where it does not apply, so the dataset exports as one rectangular table. Six saved views come with it: Transactions, Congress, Corporate insiders, Late filings, Clusters & summaries and Problems.

Who — insiderType, source, chamber, filerName, firstName, lastName, bioguideId, party, state, district, committees[], owner, reportingOwnerCik, reporterRoles[], officerTitle.

What — issuerName, issuerCik, ticker, assetName, assetType, side, transactionType, transactionCode, transactionCodeLabel, acquiredDisposed, shares, pricePerShare, value, amountMin, amountMax, amountMidpoint, amountRange, capitalGainsOver200.

When — transactionDate, notificationDate, disclosureDate, daysToDisclose, filingDeadlineDays, complianceStatus, daysLate.

Where it came from — isAmendment, filingId, filingUrl, filingType, parseStatus, description, comments, subholdingOf, footnotes[], sharesOwnedAfter, ownershipNature, sourceUrl, scrapedAt.

Amount ranges

Congressional filings report a band, never an exact figure. All ten are parsed to numbers:

Band	amountMin	amountMax	amountMidpoint
$1,001 - $15,000	1001	15000	8000.5
$15,001 - $50,000	15001	50000	32500.5
$50,001 - $100,000	50001	100000	75000.5
$100,001 - $250,000	100001	250000	175000.5
$250,001 - $500,000	250001	500000	375000.5
$500,001 - $1,000,000	500001	1000000	750000.5
$1,000,001 - $5,000,000	1000001	5000000	3000000.5
$5,000,001 - $25,000,000	5000001	25000000	15000000.5
$25,000,001 - $50,000,000	25000001	50000000	37500000.5
Over $50,000,000	50000001	null	null

The open-ended top band has no maximum, so it gets no midpoint. A Form 4 reports an actual price and share count instead, so it fills shares, pricePerShare and value and leaves the band columns null.

Compliance fields

daysToDisclose is the gap between the trade and the filing. filingDeadlineDays is 45 for a congressional periodic report (the STOCK Act deadline) and 2 for a Form 4. complianceStatus grades the gap: on-time, late, or severely-late for a congressional filing more than 90 days after the trade. daysLate is how far past the deadline it went.

These are arithmetic on two dates printed on the filing. They are not an allegation, and the filing is linked on every row so you can check them. Form 4 deadlines are two business days and we count calendar days, which can over-report a Form 4 by a weekend; congressional deadlines are calendar days, so those are exact.

Free summary rows

With includeSummary on (the default), the run adds rows computed from its own results and charges for none of them:

• ticker-summary — per ticker: trades, buys, sells, uniqueBuyers, uniqueSellers, firstSeen, lastSeen.
• member-summary — per member: trades, buys, sells, lateFilings, lateRate (late filings as a share of their filings in this run).
• cluster — where three or more different members of Congress bought the same ticker within 30 days of each other: ticker, memberCount, members[], windowDays, firstSeen, lastSeen.

A cluster row says those people bought that thing within a month of each other. It is not a score, a signal or a claim about why.

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Coverage, and where it stops

• House. The Clerk publishes a yearly index of every financial-disclosure filing; the 2026 index holds 385 periodic transaction reports. Earlier years are reachable by setting dateFrom — each year is its own index, and the run fetches the ones your window touches.
• Senate. eFD publishes periodic transaction reports back through the current filing system. The run pages the search 100 filings at a time.
• SEC Form 4. Either the latest filings market-wide, a specific company's filings from data.sec.gov, or EDGAR's settled daily index when you ask for a date range that has closed.
• Scanned filings. Some members file on paper, and those reports are published as images with no text in them — roughly 10–15% of House periodic reports, plus a handful of senators who file exclusively on paper. Those come back as a free row with parseStatus: "unparsed", errorType: "unparsed" and the document's URL. Nothing is guessed at and nothing is charged. If you need those, open the link.
• Not in this version. Annual reports, holdings, assets, income and liabilities. This Actor returns transactions only.

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What you are never charged for

• Diagnostic rows of every type: not-found, no-results, unparsed, invalid-input, blocked, timeout, unavailable.
• Scanned filings that could not be read.
• Every summary and cluster row.
• Transactions your filters excluded — the filters run before the charge.
• A run that returns no transaction at all. A run whose sources were usable but produced nothing — filters that excluded every transaction, nothing filed in your window, a disclosure site that refused us — finishes SUCCEEDED with zero results, a status message that says so, and a free diagnostic row telling you why wherever there is one; nothing is charged, start fee included. A run finishes FAILED only when there was nothing usable to attempt (no source selected), or the Actor itself hit an error.
• An incremental run on a quiet day. When every filing in range was already returned by an earlier run and nothing has been filed since, the run finishes SUCCEEDED with "Nothing new" in its status message and no charge — a scheduled monitor should not look broken because Congress took the day off.

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Pricing

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD
Run started	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001
Transaction returned	$0.0005	$0.0005	$0.0004	$0.0003

That is $0.50 per 1,000 transactions, congressional and corporate alike. The run honours ACTOR_MAX_TOTAL_CHARGE_USD: when the budget runs out it stops fetching rather than handing over rows it cannot bill for, and says so in the run status.

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Proxy

The default is Apify's US residential proxy, and it is not a luxury: the House Clerk's site is behind a bot filter that refuses datacenter addresses, and Senate eFD is reachable from United States addresses only. SEC EDGAR requests always go direct, whatever you set — EDGAR rate-limits per IP and asks for a contact address in the User-Agent, so a rotating shared exit buys nothing there.

The run holds itself to 8 requests a second against sec.gov (SEC publishes a limit of 10) and pauses between successive pages of any one search.

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Running it every day

Set incremental: true and schedule it. The Actor keeps a record (in a named key-value store, stateStoreName, default congress-insider-trades-state) of the House DocIDs, Senate report IDs and EDGAR accession numbers it has already returned, skips them, and returns only what has been filed since. The indexes are small; the cost is the documents, and a daily run downloads only the new ones. It is the single biggest lever on what a scheduled job costs.

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Use it from an AI agent, or from code

One JSON object in, one flat array out — the shape agent runtimes want. The Actor runs with limited permissions, uses pay-per-event pricing and never enters Standby, so it works over the Apify MCP server and with x402 agentic payments. The Integrations tab pushes results to Slack, a webhook, Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Snowflake or BigQuery.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/insight.solutions~congress-insider-trades-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"sources":["house","senate"],"tickers":["NVDA"],"transactionTypes":["buy"],"maxTransactions":100}'

# pip install apify-client
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("insight.solutions/congress-insider-trades-api").call(run_input={
    "sources": ["house", "senate", "form4"],
    "tickers": ["NVDA", "AMD"],
    "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
    "minAmount": 50000,
    "maxTransactions": 300,
    "userAgentContact": "Acme Research data@acme.com",
})

for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if row.get("ok") and row["rowType"] == "transaction":
        print(row["filerName"], row["insiderType"], row["side"], row["ticker"],
              row["amountRange"] or row["value"], row["transactionDate"], row["filingUrl"], sep=" | ")

Set userAgentContact to your own organisation and address whenever sources includes form4 — the SEC answers HTTP 403 without it. Set incremental: true when you want a monitor rather than a backfill: the run returns only filings it has not returned before.

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FAQ

Is this insider trading? No. Everything here is a document its filer was legally required to publish. A periodic transaction report exists precisely so that these trades are public.

Why is the amount a range? Because that is what the law requires members of Congress to disclose. They report a band, not a figure. amountMidpoint is offered for aggregation, and it is a midpoint of a band, not an estimate of the trade.

Why do some rows have no ticker? Because the filing names an asset that has no exchange symbol — a municipal bond, a private partnership, a fund share class. The asset name is still there. Nothing is guessed at from the name.

Why is side "other" on a Form 4 grant? Because an award of restricted stock is not somebody spending their own money in the market, and calling it a buy would put it in the same bucket as one. transactionCode, transactionCodeLabel and acquiredDisposed are on the row, so you can treat an A as accumulation if that is what you want.

Why is the disclosure so old? A periodic transaction report is due within 45 days of the trade. Some are filed on day 44. daysToDisclose tells you exactly how old each one is.

Can I use this data? Congressional financial disclosure reports are public records. The Ethics in Government Act places restrictions on how reports obtained under it may be used — notably for commercial purposes and for determining credit rating or soliciting money — and you are responsible for using them lawfully. This is a statement of where the restriction lives, not legal advice; if your use case is commercial, take your own advice.

What happens if a source changes its format? The upstream documents are not APIs, and their format can change without notice. When a filing cannot be read the run returns a free diagnostic row naming the document rather than a wrong number, and the run only finishes successfully if it returned at least one real transaction.

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Limitations

• Congressional amounts are ranges. There is no way to recover an exact figure from a filing that does not contain one.
• Roughly 10–15% of House periodic reports are scanned images and come back unparsed and free, with a link.
• The House leg is the slow one: each filing is a PDF that must be downloaded and its text laid back out. maxHouseFilings bounds it separately for that reason.
• Form 4 deadlines are counted in calendar days, which can over-report a weekend.
• Party, state, district and committee membership come from the public congress-legislators dataset, matched on chamber, surname, state and district. A filer who cannot be matched to a sitting member gets nulls in those columns rather than a guess. A former member who filed after leaving office will not match.
• Cluster detection looks only at the rows this run returned. Widen the window and you will find more.
• The upstream format may change. See the FAQ.

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