FEC Campaign Finance Scraper
Pricing
$0.90 / 1,000 result rows
Search FEC campaign finance data for contributions, candidates, committees/PACs, spending, independent expenditures, and committee totals. Export source-backed records with donor, amount, candidate, committee, employer, recipient, and FEC evidence links.
You can access the FEC Campaign Finance Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "contributionSearchTerms": [10 "Jane Smith",11 "C00580100",12 ],13 "candidateSearchTerms": ["H4NY12015"],14 "committeeSearchTerms": ["C00401224"],15 "cycleYears": ["2024"],16 "states": [17 "NY",18 "CA",19 ],20 "groupBy": [21 "employer",22 "committee",23 "state",24 ],25}26
27# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish28run = client.actor("maximedupre/fec-campaign-finance-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)29
30# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)31print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])32for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():33 print(item)34
35# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use FEC Campaign Finance Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: