US State Legislators Contacts & Districts Scraper

Here is one real result, with every field the actor returns. The committees array is trimmed to 4 of its 11 real entries for readability; every value shown is real:

{
  "name": "Akilah Weber Pierson",
  "givenName": "Akilah",
  "familyName": "Weber Pierson",
  "party": "Democratic",
  "chamber": "upper",
  "chamberTitle": "Senator",
  "district": "39",
  "currentRole": {
    "title": "Senator",
    "chamber": "upper",
    "district": "39",
    "startDate": "Mon Dec 02 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)",
    "jurisdiction": "ocd-jurisdiction/country:us/state:ca/government"
  },
  "roleHistory": [
    {"chamber": "upper", "title": "Senator", "district": "39", "startDate": "2024-12-02", "endDate": null, "jurisdiction": "ocd-jurisdiction/country:us/state:ca/government"},
    {"chamber": "lower", "title": "Representative", "district": "79", "startDate": "2021-04-19", "endDate": "2024-12-01", "jurisdiction": "ocd-jurisdiction/country:us/state:ca/government"}
  ],
  "committees": [
    {"name": "Fisheries and Aquaculture", "classification": "committee", "chamber": "legislature", "role": "member"},
    {"name": "Budget and Fiscal Review", "classification": "committee", "chamber": "upper", "role": "member"},
    {"name": "Health", "classification": "committee", "chamber": "upper", "role": "chair"},
    {"name": "Social Determinants of Health Select", "classification": "committee", "chamber": "upper", "role": "chair"}
  ],
  "committeeCount": 11,
  "state": "CA",
  "gender": "Female",
  "birthDate": "1978-07-02",
  "email": "senator.weber@senate.ca.gov",
  "capitolPhone": "916-651-4039",
  "capitolFax": null,
  "capitolAddress": "1021 O St. Suite 7310, Sacramento, CA 95814",
  "districtPhone": "619-688-6700",
  "districtFax": null,
  "districtAddress": "7575 Metropolitan Drive Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92108",
  "website": "https://a79.asmdc.org/",
  "links": ["https://a79.asmdc.org/", "https://sd39.senate.ca.gov/"],
  "socialLinks": ["https://www.linkedin.com/in/akilah-weber-3164404"],
  "openstatesUrl": "https://openstates.org/person/akilah-weber-pierson-6c2a35d5-c04c-44d0-8bd9-92a625e2b525/",
  "image": "https://sd39.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd39.senate.ca.gov/files/website/sd39_bio_portrait.jpg",
  "otherNames": ["A. Weber", "A. Weber Pierson", "A.F. Weber", "A.F. Weber Pierson", "Akilah Faizah Weber", "Akilah Weber", "Akilah Weber, M.D.", "Weber Pierson", "Weber Pierson, A.", "Weber, A."],
  "sources": ["https://a79.asmdc.org", "https://a79.asmdc.org/", "https://ballotpedia.org/Akilah_Weber", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akilah_Weber", "https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/195832/akilah-weber", "https://sd39.senate.ca.gov", "https://sd39.senate.ca.gov/biography", "https://www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/akilah-weber-3164404"],
  "id": "ocd-person/6c2a35d5-c04c-44d0-8bd9-92a625e2b525",
  "source": "OpenStates People",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-10T14:29:10.531Z"
}

The most complete US state legislator scraper available. It returns every contact and district detail the OpenStates People dataset holds for each current legislator, including capitol and district phone, fax and street address, email, official website, social links, full role history, party and chamber, plus the committees each member sits on and the role they hold there (chair, vice chair, member).

📥 Input · 📤 Output · 💰 Pricing · ▶️ Examples

Table of contents

• What it does
• Quickstart
• Input reference
• Output reference
• Example output record
• Run via API and CLI
• Fetch results
• Billing and limits
• FAQ and troubleshooting

What it does

The actor pulls the current legislators for one US state or territory from the open OpenStates People dataset, applies the chamber and party filters you pass, optionally attaches each member's committee memberships and role, and writes one normalized record per legislator to the run's dataset. Each record carries full contact details (email, capitol and district phone, fax and address), the district and chamber, party, role history, official website and social links, and cross-reference sources. Missing source values are returned as null.

Coverage is all 50 states plus territories (DC, PR and others). Run one state per run.

Quickstart

Open the actor, paste this into the input, and press Run. It returns up to 10 California legislators with committee memberships.

{
  "maxLegislators": 10,
  "state": "ca",
  "chamber": "all",
  "includeCommittees": true
}

Set chamber to upper for the Senate only or lower for the House / Assembly. Add party to keep one party. Every input field except state is optional.

Input reference

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxLegislators	integer	no	10	Maximum legislators to collect.
state	string	no	ca	Two-letter US state or territory code, for example ca, tx, ny, fl, pr. One state per run.
chamber	enum	no	all	Keep only one chamber: upper (Senate) or lower (House / Assembly). all returns both.
party	string	no	(empty)	Keep only legislators whose party contains this text, for example Democratic, Republican, Independent.
includeCommittees	boolean	no	true	Attach the committees each legislator sits on and the role they hold there (chair, vice chair, member).

Output reference

One dataset item per legislator. Types: string, integer, boolean, string[], object, object array, or null when the source value is absent.

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Full display name.
givenName	string	First name.
familyName	string	Last name.
party	string	Political party.
chamber	string	Chamber: upper, lower, or legislature.
chamberTitle	string	Title for the chamber, for example Senator, Representative.
district	string	District number or name.
currentRole	object	Current role: title, chamber, district, startDate, jurisdiction.
roleHistory	object[]	Past and present roles with chamber, title, district, startDate, endDate, jurisdiction.
committees	object[]	Committees the member sits on: name, classification, chamber, role. Empty when includeCommittees is off or none are recorded.
committeeCount	integer	Number of committee memberships.
state	string	Two-letter state code (uppercase).
gender	string	Reported gender, or null.
birthDate	string	Birth date (YYYY-MM-DD), or null.
email	string	Official email, or null.
capitolPhone	string	Capitol office phone, or null.
capitolFax	string	Capitol office fax, or null.
capitolAddress	string	Capitol office street address, or null.
districtPhone	string	District office phone, or null.
districtFax	string	District office fax, or null.
districtAddress	string	District office street address, or null.
website	string	Primary official website, or null.
links	string[]	All official website links.
socialLinks	string[]	Social media / professional profile links.
openstatesUrl	string	OpenStates person profile URL.
image	string	Official portrait image URL, or null.
otherNames	string[]	Alternate names and spellings.
sources	string[]	Source URLs OpenStates used for this person.
id	string	OpenStates OCD person ID (unique).
source	string	Always OpenStates People.
observedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of when the record was collected.

Note: currentRole.startDate is passed through as recorded by the source (it may be an ISO date or a full timestamp string). The roleHistory entries use normalized YYYY-MM-DD dates.

Example output record

See the hero record at the top of this page. It is a real California state senator (OCD id ocd-person/6c2a35d5-...) pulled from a live run (input {"state":"ca","chamber":"all","includeCommittees":true,"maxLegislators":10}), with the committee list trimmed for readability; every value shown is real.

Run via API and CLI

Start a run and wait for it to finish, then read the dataset. Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

Run synchronously and get dataset items in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~openstates-legislators-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"state":"tx","chamber":"upper","party":"Republican","maxLegislators":50}'

Start a run asynchronously:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapers_lat~openstates-legislators-scraper/runs?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"state":"ny","includeCommittees":true,"maxLegislators":250}'

Apify CLI:

apify call scrapers_lat/openstates-legislators-scraper \
  --input '{"state":"ca","chamber":"all"}'

Fetch results

Every run writes to a dataset. Fetch items as JSON, CSV, or Excel by changing format:

# JSON
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=json"

# CSV
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&clean=true&format=csv"

# Paginate large datasets
curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<DATASET_ID>/items?token=<TOKEN>&offset=1000&limit=1000"

<DATASET_ID> is returned as defaultDatasetId in the run object. Use offset and limit to page through large result sets. clean=true drops empty and internal fields.

Billing and limits

• Pay per result. You are charged per legislator returned (result event). See the pricing tab for the current per-result price.
• No charge on failure. If a run errors, the actor writes a single item with a populated error field and does not charge for it. Empty runs cost nothing.
• Spend cap respected. Set maxTotalChargeUsd on the run; once reached, the actor stops emitting and charging further billable results.
• Free Apify plans are capped at 10 legislators per run. Upgrade for higher maxLegislators.

FAQ and troubleshooting

A run returned 0 records. Why? The state code was invalid, or the chamber / party filter matched nobody. Check the two-letter state code and loosen the filters. Zero-result runs are not charged.

How do I get a full state roster? Set maxLegislators high enough to cover the chamber (for example 250 for a large lower house) and leave chamber as all.

Do records include contact details? Yes. Each legislator carries capitol and district phone, fax and street address, plus email and official website where the source has them. Missing values are null.

Can I get committee assignments? Yes, with includeCommittees on (the default). Each committee entry names the committee, its chamber, and the member's role (chair, vice chair, member).

Is this an official OpenStates tool? No. This actor is independent and has no affiliation with OpenStates or Plural. It reads only data that is publicly available in the open OpenStates People dataset.

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Independent tool, not affiliated with OpenStates or Plural. Accesses only publicly available OpenStates People data.