Capitol Trades Scraper

Pull every US congressional stock-trade disclosure from Capitol Trades at scale — one clean row per trade, complete with politician, company, ticker, transaction type, dollar-size band, price, and every disclosure date. Built for financial researchers, investigative journalists, and compliance teams who need to track how members of Congress trade without opening PDF filings or checking disclosure pages one at a time.

Why This Scraper?

• 20+ structured fields per trade — politician, party, chamber, home state, company, ticker, sector, transaction type, owner, size band, price, and every disclosure date, already parsed into one flat row. No filings to read by hand.
• Reporting-gap days on every trade — see exactly how many days passed between a trade and its public disclosure, so you can surface the slowest, latest filers in a single sort.
• Trade-size ranges with numeric $ min/max bounds — every disclosed band (e.g. "$15K–$50K") also ships as sizeRangeMin and sizeRangeMax numbers, so you can sort, sum, and rank by dollar exposure.
• Filter by politician name or stock ticker directly — type "Nancy Pelosi" or "NVDA" and get matches; no bioguide IDs and no hand-built query strings required.
• House & Senate, all 50 states + DC — full congressional coverage with two-chamber and per-state filters.
• 4 transaction types × 4 owner categories — split Buy / Sell / Exchange / Receive and Self / Spouse / Child / Joint to isolate exactly the disclosures you care about.
• Company sector and clean ticker on every row — group trades by sector (information technology, energy, financials, health care, and more) or by ticker for portfolio-level analysis.
• Flexible date targeting — quick windows of 7, 30, 90, 180, or 365 days, or an exact custom transaction-date range, plus sort by published date, trade date, or reporting delay.
• Paste-a-URL power mode — already have a filtered Capitol Trades URL? Drop it in and get every matching trade with full parity to the site's own filters.

Use Cases

Investment Research & Signal Generation

• Track what congressional committee members buy and sell ahead of major votes or hearings
• Build a "congressional buys" watchlist from Buy transactions in a sector you follow
• Rank trades by dollar exposure using the numeric size bounds to focus on the largest positions

Journalism & Watchdog Reporting

• Surface the slowest disclosures by sorting on reporting-gap days to spot filings that stretched past the STOCK Act's 45-day window
• Follow a single member's full trading record by name across House and Senate terms
• Cross-reference a member's trades in a company against their committee assignments

Compliance & Ethics Monitoring

• Monitor spouse, child, and joint-account trades that members are still required to disclose
• Flag transactions in sensitive sectors (defense, health care, energy) for conflict-of-interest review
• Keep an audit trail of every disclosure with its filing date and Capitol Trades source link

Quant & Backtesting

• Assemble a time series of congressional trades by transaction date for factor research
• Backtest a "follow the politician" strategy using per-trade price and size bands
• Segment trade flow by party, chamber, or state to test cross-sectional hypotheses

Newsletters & Content

• Auto-generate a weekly "who traded what" digest from the last 7 days
• Feed a public dashboard tracking the most active congressional traders

Getting Started

The Latest Trades

The simplest possible run — the 100 most recently published disclosures:

{
    "maxItems": 100
}

Track One Politician's Recent Buys

{
    "politicians": ["Nancy Pelosi"],
    "transactionTypes": ["buy"],
    "dateRange": "90d",
    "maxItems": 200
}

Trades in a Company, Slowest Filers First

Pull every disclosed trade in NVIDIA or Microsoft and sort so the latest disclosures rise to the top:

{
    "issuers": ["NVDA", "Microsoft"],
    "sortBy": "reportingGap",
    "maxItems": 500
}

Full-Featured Example

Senate trades from three states, in a custom date window, ordered by trade date:

{
    "chamber": ["senate"],
    "states": ["CA", "TX", "NY"],
    "transactionTypes": ["buy", "sell"],
    "owners": ["self", "spouse"],
    "tradedAfter": "2025-01-01",
    "tradedBefore": "2025-12-31",
    "sortBy": "traded",
    "maxItems": 1000
}

Paste a Capitol Trades URL

Already built a filtered view on the site? Paste the URL and the filters above are ignored:

{
    "startUrls": ["https://www.capitoltrades.com/trades?party=democrat&txType=buy"],
    "maxItems": 200
}

Input Reference

Every field is optional. Leave everything blank to pull the entire trades feed. Filters combine — a trade must match all of them.

Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
politicians	array	[]	Filter to specific members. Enter names (e.g. "Nancy Pelosi") or Capitol Trades profile URLs. Blank = all politicians.
issuers	array	[]	Filter to specific traded companies. Enter company names (e.g. "Apple") or ticker symbols (e.g. "NVDA", "MSFT"). Blank = all companies.
party	array (select)	[]	Democrat, Republican, Other / Independent.
chamber	array (select)	[]	House of Representatives, Senate.
states	array (select)	[]	Any of the 50 US states plus District of Columbia.
transactionTypes	array (select)	[]	Buy, Sell, Exchange, Receive.
owners	array (select)	[]	Self, Spouse, Child, Joint — the account behind the trade. Applied to the collected results.

Date Range

Limit results by when the trade happened. Use the quick window OR the custom dates — a custom date takes priority over the quick window.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
dateRange	string (select)	All time	Quick transaction-date window: All time, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Last 90 days, Last 6 months, Last year.
tradedAfter	string	—	Only trades on or after this date. Format YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2025-01-01).
tradedBefore	string	—	Only trades on or before this date. Format YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2025-06-30).

Ordering & Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
sortBy	string (select)	Published date (newest first)	Order results by: Published date (newest first), Trade date (newest first), or Reporting delay (longest first).
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum trades to collect. Set to 0 to collect every available trade. Lower it to keep runs fast and costs predictable.
startUrls	array	[]	Advanced: paste one or more Capitol Trades filtered URLs (starting with https://www.capitoltrades.com/trades). When provided, the filters above are ignored.

Output

Every row is one individual trade disclosure. Here is a representative result:

{
    "tradeId": "20003801566",
    "politicianName": "Debbie Dingell",
    "politicianId": "D000624",
    "party": "democrat",
    "chamber": "house",
    "state": "MI",
    "politicianUrl": "https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians/D000624",
    "issuerName": "NVIDIA Corp",
    "ticker": "NVDA",
    "issuerId": "431632",
    "issuerUrl": "https://www.capitoltrades.com/issuers/431632",
    "sector": "information-technology",
    "owner": "spouse",
    "txType": "buy",
    "sizeRange": "$15K–$50K",
    "sizeRangeMin": 15001,
    "sizeRangeMax": 50000,
    "price": 178.24,
    "txDate": "2026-07-14",
    "pubDate": "2026-07-23T13:05:01Z",
    "filedDate": "2026-07-22",
    "reportingGapDays": 8,
    "url": "https://www.capitoltrades.com/trades/20003801566"
}

Politician

Field	Type	Description
politicianName	string	Full name of the member of Congress
politicianId	string	Capitol Trades / bioguide identifier
party	string	democrat, republican, or other
chamber	string	house or senate
state	string	Two-letter code of the state the member represents
politicianUrl	string	Member's Capitol Trades profile URL

Company

Field	Type	Description
issuerName	string	Traded company / issuer name
ticker	string	Stock ticker (N/A for non-listed assets)
issuerId	string	Capitol Trades issuer identifier
issuerUrl	string	Issuer's Capitol Trades page URL
sector	string	Issuer sector (e.g. information-technology, energy, financials)

Transaction

Field	Type	Description
tradeId	string	Unique trade / disclosure identifier
txType	string	buy, sell, exchange, or receive
owner	string	self, spouse, child, joint, or not-disclosed
sizeRange	string	Disclosed value band, e.g. $15K–$50K
sizeRangeMin	number	Lower dollar bound of the band
sizeRangeMax	number	Upper dollar bound of the band (null for the open > $50M band)
price	number	Security price at the transaction, when disclosed (null otherwise)
url	string	The trade's Capitol Trades detail URL

Dates & Disclosure

Field	Type	Description
txDate	string	Transaction (trade) date, YYYY-MM-DD
pubDate	string	When Capitol Trades published the disclosure (ISO 8601)
filedDate	string	Filing date, YYYY-MM-DD
reportingGapDays	number	Days between the trade and its disclosure — the "filed after" gap

Tips for Best Results

• Start small to preview. Set maxItems to 100–200 on your first run to confirm the fields and filters match what you need, then scale up.
• Filter companies by name or ticker. Enter "NVDA" or "Apple" in issuers — the scraper resolves both to the right company, so you never have to look up an internal ID.
• Sort by reporting delay to catch slow filers. Set sortBy to "Reporting delay (longest first)" to bubble up the trades that took the longest to disclose — the fastest way to find filings that stretched past the STOCK Act's 45-day window.
• Custom dates beat the quick window. For an exact span, set tradedAfter and tradedBefore; they override the Date Range preset. Use the quick window only for rolling "last N days" pulls.
• Owner filtering runs on the collected results. When you filter to Spouse, Child, or Joint only, raise maxItems so enough trades are scanned to return a full set — these owners are a small slice of total volume.
• Use the size bounds for dollar analysis. Sort or aggregate on sizeRangeMin / sizeRangeMax to rank trades by exposure; the text sizeRange is for display, the numbers are for math.
• Combine filters to zero in. Filters AND together — pair a chamber, a party, and a date window to build a tight, repeatable feed for a recurring report.

Pricing

From $0.90 per 1,000 results — undercuts the going market rate for congressional-trade data while returning richer, fully parsed rows. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.11	$0.10	$0.10	$0.09
1,000	$1.05	$1.00	$0.95	$0.90
10,000	$10.50	$10.00	$9.50	$9.00
100,000	$105.00	$100.00	$95.00	$90.00

A "result" is one trade row in your dataset. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor collects US congressional stock-trade disclosures that are public records. Under the STOCK Act, members of Congress must publicly file their periodic transaction reports, and Capitol Trades aggregates those public filings. Use the data for research, journalism, compliance, and analysis. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Capitol Trades' terms of service. Do not use extracted data for harassment or any illegal purpose.