You can access the FEC Campaign Finance Intelligence 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "searchQuery": "Tesla"
12};
13
14// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
15const run = await client.actor("wakey7dev/fec-campaign-finance").call(input);
16
17// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
18console.log('Results from dataset');
19console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
20const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
21items.forEach((item) => {
22    console.dir(item);
23});
24
25// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

FEC Campaign Finance Scraper — US Political Donations API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use FEC Campaign Finance Intelligence API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

FEC Campaign Finance Intelligence API in Python

FEC Campaign Finance Intelligence API through CLI

FEC Campaign Finance Intelligence OpenAPI definition

FEC Campaign Finance Intelligence API

FEC Campaign Finance Contributions Scraper

parseforge/fec-campaign-finance-contributions-scraper

Extract comprehensive campaign finance contribution data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) OpenFEC API. Retrieves contributor details (name, address, employer, occupation), committee information, contribution amounts, receipt dates, transaction IDs, and links to source PDFs.

ParseForge

FEC Campaign Finance Scraper

fortuitous_pirate/fec-spending-scraper

Search FEC campaign finance data. Get donations, expenditures, PAC contributions, and candidate financials. Essential for political research.

Fortuitous Pirate

FEC Campaign Finance Scraper - Donations & PAC API

pink_comic/fec-campaign-finance-search

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.

Ava Torres

FEC Campaign Finance Crawler - Candidates, PACs & Contributions

jungle_synthesizer/fec-campaign-finance-crawler

Crawl campaign finance data from the FEC. Extract candidates with financial summaries, committees/PACs, and individual contributions. Filter by year, state, party, and office. For political researchers, journalists, and compliance teams.

BowTiedRaccoon

FEC Campaign Finance Scraper

foo121/fec-campaign-finance-scraper

Export US federal campaign-finance contributions (individual donations) by state, committee, employer, occupation, cycle and amount from the official OpenFEC API.

ziv shay

FEC Campaign Finance Scraper - Donors, PACs & Lobbying

scrapesage/fec-campaign-finance-scraper

Scrape US federal campaign finance from the FEC: donors (name, employer, occupation, ZIP, amount), PACs, candidates, disbursements, independent expenditures & filings - plus Senate lobbying disclosures. Filter by name, employer, state or committee. Monitor mode. Export JSON, CSV, Excel.

Scrape Sage

FEC Campaign Finance Scraper: Donors & Committees

scrapers_lat/fec-campaign-finance-scraper

Scrape US federal campaign finance from the OpenFEC API: candidates, committees and itemized contributions. Extract donor name, employer, occupation, amount, date, receipts, disbursements and treasurer contacts. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

Scrapers Lat

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FEC Campaign Finance Scraper

automation-lab/fec-campaign-finance-scraper

Download official FEC campaign-finance bulk data for candidates, committees, contributions, and disbursements. Filter by cycle, IDs, state, and party.

Stas Persiianenko

FEC Campaign Finance Scraper

maximedupre/fec-campaign-finance-scraper

Search FEC campaign finance data for contributions, candidates, committees/PACs, spending, independent expenditures, and committee totals. Export source-backed records with donor, amount, candidate, committee, employer, recipient, and FEC evidence links.

Maxime Dupré

FEC Campaign Finance Scraper — Donations & PACs

copious_atoll/fec-campaign-finance

Extract FEC campaign finance data including candidate fundraising, individual donations, PAC contributions, and disbursements. Search by candidate, state, party, election year, or committee. Free API, no proxy needed.

Grim R

FEC Campaign Finance Data Scraper

crawlergang/fec-campaign-finance-scraper

Scrape US campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) - candidates, committees, contributions, and expenditures. Replaces OpenSecrets (API discontinued April 2025). Free official FEC API, no registration required.