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FEC Campaign Finance Scraper - Donations & PAC API

Scrape FEC campaign finance data for candidates, PACs, Super PACs, individual donors, contributions, and disbursements. Search political donations by name, employer, ZIP, committee, cycle, party, state, or office and export structured OpenFEC records for election research and compliance.

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You can access the FEC Campaign Finance Scraper - Donations & PAC API 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.

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FEC Campaign Finance Scraper - Political Donations API OpenAPI definition

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