🏛️ GovTrack US Congress Scraper

🚀 Export US Congress data in seconds. Pull roles, bills, and roll-call votes filtered by congress number and chamber. Senators, representatives, committee assignments, contact details, and full legislative metadata. No API key, no registration.

The GovTrack US Congress Scraper queries the GovTrack.us public REST API and returns rich records across three entities: lawmaker roles, bills, and roll-call votes. GovTrack is a non-partisan civic-tech project that has tracked the United States Congress since 2004, archiving every member, bill, amendment, and vote in machine-readable form.

The catalog covers every congress from the 1st (1789) to the current 119th, both chambers, and every roll-call vote and bill across more than two centuries of legislative history. This Actor exposes congress and chamber filters at the API level, so chamber-specific or congress-specific exports are fast.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Journalists, policy researchers, advocacy groups, lobbyists, political scientists, civic-tech developers, election analysts, government-affairs teams	Lawmaker contact lists, vote tracking, bill monitoring, committee mapping, longitudinal congressional analysis, civic-app data feeds, accountability dashboards

📋 What the GovTrack Scraper does

Three entity modes in a single Actor:

• 👤 Roles. Lawmaker roles with person block (name, party, state, district, gender, birthday, bioguide ID, OpenSecrets ID, C-SPAN ID, social IDs), role type (senator / representative), title, leadership position, senator class and rank, start and end dates, current flag, congress numbers, official website, phone, office, mailing address, contact form URL, and RSS feed URL.
• 📜 Bills. Bill identifiers, titles, congress, chamber, sponsor, status, introduced and current-status dates, committees, subjects, related bills, summaries, and link to GovTrack and Congress.gov.
• 🗳️ Votes. Roll-call votes with chamber, vote number, congress, session, date, result, vote type, related bill or amendment, total counts (Yea / Nay / Present / Not Voting), and individual member positions.

Filter by congress number (1 to 119) and chamber (House or Senate, currentOnly toggle for roles).

💡 Why it matters: the U.S. Congress publishes data across half a dozen official portals (Congress.gov, GPO, House Clerk, Senate.gov) with no unified API. GovTrack consolidates all of it. This Actor turns that consolidation into a downloadable CSV/JSON in two minutes.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: address, congress_numbers, contact_form, current, description, enddate, id, leadership_title, office, party, person, phone, role_type, role_type_label, rss_url, scrapedAt, senator_class, senator_class_label, senator_rank, senator_rank_label, startdate, state, title, title_long, website. All 25 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the GovTrack US Congress Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick an entity, set the congress number and chamber, and choose maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by GovTrack.us, Civic Impulse LLC, or the United States Congress. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open legislative data is collected.

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