US House Financial Disclosures & Congress Stock Trades (PTR) Scraper

Pull the official US House of Representatives financial disclosures straight from the House Clerk's public filing index: annual Financial Disclosure reports and Periodic Transaction Reports (PTR), the filings where members of Congress report their stock and bond trades. Every row links to the original filing PDF, and an opt-in add-on best-effort extracts the individual reported transactions (asset, ticker, buy or sell, dates, amount range).

Unlike "Congress stock trades" repackagers, this actor reads the authoritative primary source (disclosures-clerk.house.gov), so you get the raw filing index with a direct PDF link for every record and full control over the year range, member, state and filing type.

What you get

• One clean record per filing: member name, state, district, filing type and label, year, filing date, and a direct link to the official PDF.
• A dedicated PTR only switch for a pure "Congress stock trades" feed.
• Opt-in transaction extraction from PTR PDFs: asset name, ticker, owner (self, spouse, joint), transaction type, transaction and notification dates, and the reported amount range.
• Opt-in AI trade summary of a PTR: net buying or selling, notable tickers, sector focus, and a short plain-English summary.
• Filter by year (or a year range), member name, state, or filing type code.

Example output

{
  "docId": "20033589",
  "memberName": "Hon. Richard W. Allen",
  "firstName": "Richard W.",
  "lastName": "Allen",
  "state": "GA",
  "district": "12",
  "filingType": "P",
  "filingTypeLabel": "Periodic Transaction Report (PTR)",
  "year": "2025",
  "filingDate": "12/9/2025",
  "isPtr": true,
  "pdfUrl": "https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/ptr-pdfs/2025/20033589.pdf",
  "transactions": [
    {
      "owner": null,
      "asset": "US TREASUR NOTE 3.75% DUE 08/15/27 (91282CLG4) [GS]",
      "ticker": null,
      "assetType": "GS",
      "transactionType": "Purchase",
      "partial": false,
      "transactionDate": "11/14/2025",
      "notificationDate": "12/05/2025",
      "amount": "$50,001 - $100,000"
    }
  ],
  "transactionCount": 1,
  "aiNetDirection": "net buying",
  "aiNotableTickers": [],
  "aiSectorFocus": "Government Bonds",
  "aiSummary": "Hon. Richard W. Allen made a purchase of US Treasury Notes, indicating a focus on government securities. The transaction reflects a net buying position in fixed-income investments.",
  "source": "US House Clerk",
  "observedAt": "2026-08-17T02:31:21.955Z",
  "error": null
}

Input

Field	Type	Description
year	integer	Disclosure year to pull (one index per calendar year). Defaults to the current year.
yearFrom	integer	Optional. Start of a year range (inclusive).
yearTo	integer	Optional. End of a year range (inclusive).
ptrOnly	boolean	Keep only Periodic Transaction Reports (the stock-trade filings).
filingType	string	Optional. One filing type code: O = Original FD, P = PTR, A = Amendment, C = Candidate, D = Termination, W = Withdrawal, X = Extension.
memberName	string	Optional. Keep only filings whose first or last name contains this text.
state	string	Optional. Two-letter state code, for example CA, TX, NY.
maxResults	integer	Maximum filings to return. Free Apify plans are capped at 10 per run.
includeTransactions	boolean	Paid add-on. Extract the reported trades from PTR PDFs.
withAiSummary	boolean	Paid add-on. AI summary of a PTR's trades (requires transaction extraction).

Output fields

Field	Description
docId	House Clerk document ID for the filing.
memberName	Full name of the filer (prefix, first, last, suffix).
firstName, lastName	Parsed name parts.
state, district	Two-letter state and district number.
filingType	Raw filing type code.
filingTypeLabel	Human-readable filing type.
year, filingDate	Disclosure year and the date the filing was submitted.
isPtr	True when the filing is a Periodic Transaction Report.
pdfUrl	Direct link to the official filing PDF.
transactions	Array of extracted PTR trades (add-on). Null when not requested or not extractable.
transactionCount	Number of transactions extracted.
aiNetDirection, aiNotableTickers, aiSectorFocus, aiSummary	AI trade summary fields (add-on).
source, observedAt	Provenance and capture timestamp.
error	Populated only if the index could not be read.

Use cases

• Congress stock trades: build a feed of member PTR filings and the tickers they buy and sell, the same raw data behind popular political-finance trackers.
• Political finance and trading signals: monitor new PTRs by member or state and turn reported trades into watchlists or alerts.
• Compliance and ethics monitoring: track STOCK Act disclosures, late filings, and members with active brokerage activity.
• Journalism and research: pull every disclosure PDF for a member or a year for investigations and data stories.
• Academic and NGO analysis: study conflict-of-interest patterns across the House with a clean, structured dataset.

Billing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

Event	Price (USD)	When charged
result	$0.008	One filing index record in the dataset.
transactions	$0.008	Only when at least one transaction is extracted from a PTR PDF.
ai_summary	$0.012	Only when the AI returns a usable trade summary.

Free Apify plans are capped at 10 filings per run, and the paid add-ons are disabled for free plans.

Honest note on transaction extraction

Transaction extraction is best-effort and works on text-layer PDFs only. Modern e-filed PTRs carry a text layer and parse cleanly with asset names, tickers, dates and amounts. Older or scanned PTRs have no text layer, so no transactions can be extracted from them. In that case the actor extracts nothing and does not charge the transactions or ai_summary events for that filing. You always still get the base filing record with the direct PDF link, so you can open the original document yourself.

Data source

All data comes from the public US House of Representatives financial disclosure index published by the Clerk of the House at disclosures-clerk.house.gov. This actor reads only publicly available filings.