Congress Stock Trading Scraper - Politician Trades API

Search US Congressional financial disclosure records covering both the House of Representatives and Senate. Extract actual stock trades -- ticker symbol, buy/sell, amount, transaction date -- directly from PTR filing PDFs and Senate eFD PTR pages for research, compliance, and agent workflows.

What data is included?

• Stock trades parsed from PTR filings -- individual House PDF and Senate eFD transactions with ticker, type (Purchase/Sale), amount range, and dates
• Periodic Transaction Reports (PTRs) -- stock trades that members must disclose within 45 days
• Annual Financial Disclosures -- yearly reports of all assets, income, liabilities, and transactions
• Amendments -- corrections and updates to prior filings

Data comes directly from official government sources:

• House Clerk Financial Disclosures
• Senate Electronic Financial Disclosures (eFD)

Output fields

Filing-level fields

Field	Description
memberName	Name of the Congress member
chamber	House or Senate
state	Two-letter state code
district	Congressional district (House only)
filingYear	Year of the disclosure
filingType	P (PTR), O (Original), A (Amendment), etc.
documentUrl	Direct link to the disclosure document
transactions	Array of individual stock trades (PTR filings only)

Transaction fields (when Parse Stock Trades is enabled)

Field	Description
ticker	Stock ticker symbol (e.g., AAPL, MSFT, PANW)
assetName	Full company/asset name
transactionType	Purchase, Sale, or Exchange
owner	Self, Spouse, Joint, or Dependent Child
transactionDate	Date of the trade (MM/DD/YYYY)
amount	Dollar range (e.g., "$1,001 - $15,000")
assetType	ST (Stock), OP (Option), etc.
description	Additional notes (e.g., option strike price, expiration)

Use cases

• Financial research -- analyze Congressional trading patterns for market signals
• Journalist investigations -- track politician stock trading and potential conflicts of interest
• Transparency advocacy -- monitor compliance with the STOCK Act
• Quant trading -- build strategies around Congressional insider activity
• Agent/API workflows -- feed official-source politician trade data into monitoring, alerts, and due-diligence tools
• Academic research -- study the relationship between legislation and personal investments

Example output

{
  "memberName": "Nancy Pelosi",
  "chamber": "House",
  "state": "CA",
  "filingType": "P",
  "filingTypeLabel": "Periodic Transaction Report",
  "filingDate": "2/23/2024",
  "documentUrl": "https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/ptr-pdfs/2024/20024542.pdf",
  "transactions": [
    {
      "owner": "Spouse",
      "assetName": "Palo Alto Networks, Inc.",
      "ticker": "PANW",
      "transactionType": "Purchase",
      "transactionDate": "02/12/2024",
      "amount": "$500,001 - $1,000,000",
      "description": "Purchased 50 call options with a strike price of $200"
    }
  ]
}

Input options

• Member Last Name -- search by specific member (e.g., "Pelosi", "Tuberville")
• Chamber -- House, Senate, or both
• Filing Year -- 2012 through current year
• State -- filter by state (e.g., "CA", "AL")
• Filing Type Filter -- filter to PTRs only, originals, or amendments
• Parse Stock Trades from PTRs -- extract individual trades from House PDF and Senate eFD PTR filings (enabled by default)

Notes

• The Senate eFD flow uses the current browser-style search form plus the DataTables JSON endpoint. If Senate results are unavailable, House results are still returned.
• Transaction parsing works for House PTR PDFs and Senate eFD HTML PTR pages; scanned/paper filings may not expose structured transaction rows.
• Data availability varies by year. Most complete data is from 2013 onward.