# Congress Stock Trades: House & Senate STOCK Act (`weirworks/congress-stock-trades`) Actor

Stock and asset trades disclosed by members of the US House and Senate (STOCK Act periodic transaction reports), parsed from the official Senate eFD and House Clerk filings, with party, committees and late-filing flags.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/weirworks/congress-stock-trades.md
- **Developed by:** [Weirworks](https://apify.com/weirworks) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 trades

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## Congress Stock Trades: House & Senate (STOCK Act)

Every **stock and asset trade disclosed by members of the US House and Senate**, parsed straight from the official sources: the Senate's eFD system and the House Clerk's Periodic Transaction Reports. Each trade is matched to the member's **party, state and committee assignments**, with a **late-filing flag**.

Built for journalists and newsrooms, transparency and watchdog groups, academic researchers, and analysts studying congressional trading. With House control in play in the 2026 midterms, congressional trading is likely to stay in the news.

### What you get

**One row per trade:**

- **Member:** name, chamber, party, state, district and Bioguide ID.
- **Committees:** current assignments, so trades can be checked against oversight areas.
- **Trade:**
  - transaction date and filing date
  - `daysToDisclose`, and `lateFiling` if more than 45 days after the trade
  - owner (self, spouse, joint or dependent child), ticker, asset name and asset type
  - transaction type (purchase, sale, partial sale or exchange)
  - reported amount range, plus numeric min/max
- **Link** to the official report.

**Filters:** chamber, member, party, ticker, transaction type, minimum amount and filing date range.

**Monitoring mode:** returns only trades not seen before. Schedule it daily for alerts.

**Strictly neutral:** every member of every party is covered.

### Example

```json
{
  "chamber": "Senate",
  "memberName": "Sheldon Whitehouse",
  "party": "Democrat",
  "state": "RI",
  "committees": ["Senate Committee on Finance", "..."],
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-04",
  "filedDate": "2026-10-01",
  "daysToDisclose": 27,
  "lateFiling": false,
  "owner": "Spouse",
  "ticker": "JPM",
  "assetName": "JP Morgan Chase & Co. Common Stock",
  "transactionType": "Sale (Partial)",
  "amount": "$15,001 - $50,000",
  "amountMin": 15001,
  "amountMax": 50000,
  "reportUrl": "https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/view/ptr/..."
}
```

### Coverage and limits

- **Electronic filings are parsed fully:** all Senate eFD electronic reports, and House PDFs that have a text layer (the large majority).
- **Paper or scanned filings** (a small share) can't be read automatically. They're listed as free `unparsed_filing` rows with a link to the original.
- **Amounts are the ranges members report.** The law doesn't require exact values.
- **Typical volume:** a 30-day window holds roughly 200–600 trades.

### Pricing

**$2 per 1,000 trades.** Unparsed-filing rows are free. No start fee.

### Permitted use: please read

Under the Ethics in Government Act (5 U.S.C. §13107), it's unlawful to use these reports for:

- any **commercial purpose**, other than by news and communications media for dissemination to the general public;
- **determining or establishing anyone's credit rating;**
- **soliciting money** for any political, charitable or other purpose.

This Actor is intended for **news reporting, research, transparency and public-interest analysis**. You're responsible for making sure your use is lawful.

Questions: open an issue or email **hello@weirworks.com**.

*Independent tool by weirworks. Not affiliated with the US Congress. Member and committee data: the unitedstates/congress-legislators project (public domain).*

# Actor input Schema

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

Reports filed from this many days ago up to the end date.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Optional start date; overrides Days back.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Optional end date (default: today).

## `chambers` (type: `array`):

Which chamber's disclosures to read.

## `members` (type: `array`):

Only these members (partial name match), e.g. <code>Pelosi</code>, <code>Tuberville</code>.

## `parties` (type: `array`):

Leave empty for all parties.

## `tickers` (type: `array`):

Only trades in these tickers, e.g. <code>NVDA</code>, <code>MSFT</code>.

## `transactionTypes` (type: `array`):

Leave empty for all.

## `minAmount` (type: `integer`):

Only trades whose reported range reaches at least this amount, e.g. 50000.

## `onlyNewTrades` (type: `boolean`):

Skip trades returned by earlier runs. Schedule daily for an alert feed.

## `includeUnparsedFilings` (type: `boolean`):

Adds free rows for scanned/paper filings that can't be parsed automatically, with links to the original.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Not needed: official government disclosure sites.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "daysBack": 30,
  "chambers": [
    "House",
    "Senate"
  ],
  "minAmount": 0,
  "onlyNewTrades": false,
  "includeUnparsedFilings": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

The dataset rows.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("weirworks/congress-stock-trades").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False } }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("weirworks/congress-stock-trades").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call weirworks/congress-stock-trades --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,weirworks/congress-stock-trades"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/zY8yMCyeYa4KwG2gZ/builds/E9tcKzAGGFCpiRdxC/openapi.json