Congress Stock Trades Scraper

Congress Stock Trades Scraper: House and Senate periodic transaction reports, as rows

The trades members of Congress disclose in their periodic transaction reports, one row per trade: the member, chamber, state and district, whose account it was, the asset and its ticker, purchase or sale, the day it was made, the day it was disclosed, the amount range, and a link back to the filing. Read from the House Clerk's disclosure site and the Senate's eFD search, nothing else.

Read this before you use the data. 5 U.S.C. § 13107 makes it unlawful to obtain or use these reports for any commercial purpose other than by news and communications media for dissemination to the general public, to set anyone's credit rating, or to solicit money for a political, charitable or other cause. The Attorney General can sue, and a court can add a penalty of up to $10,000. The Senate's site asks every visitor to confirm they understand that before it shows a report, and this run gives that confirmation for you. Whether your own use is allowed is your call, with a lawyer if you are not sure.

🏛️ What Congress Stock Trades Scraper does

It works from disclosure dates: the days filings landed on the two official sites. Give it Last days for a schedule, or a Disclosed from and Disclosed to range for a back-fill. Then it opens each filing in the window and reads its trades.

Trade dates are not disclosure dates. A member has 30 days from being told about a trade, and never more than 45 days from the trade itself, to report it. So a filing disclosed this week can hold a trade from six weeks ago. Filter on the trade date with Traded from and Traded to when that is what you mean.

The member, state and district filters run against the filing. Ticker, transaction type, amount, asset type and owner run against the individual trades inside it.

📥 What you give it

{
  "lastDays": 30,
  "chamber": "both",
  "tickers": ["NVDA", "MSFT"],
  "transactionTypes": ["purchase"],
  "minAmount": "15001",
  "maxTrades": 500
}

📤 What you get back

A real row from a recent run:

{
  "chamber": "Senate",
  "memberName": "John Boozman",
  "state": "AR",
  "district": null,
  "owner": "Joint",
  "ticker": "OTIS",
  "assetName": "Otis Worldwide Corporation Common Stock",
  "assetType": "Stock",
  "assetCategory": "stock",
  "transactionType": "Purchase",
  "transactionDate": "2026-08-27",
  "notificationDate": null,
  "disclosureDate": "2026-09-11",
  "amountRange": "$1,001 - $15,000",
  "amountMin": 1001,
  "amountMax": 15000,
  "capitalGainsOver200": null,
  "comment": null,
  "description": null,
  "subholdingOf": null,
  "filingStatus": "New",
  "paperFiling": false,
  "note": null,
  "reportId": "0632f542-7ac2-46e4-bd9c-603e3673f0cd",
  "reportUrl": "https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/view/ptr/0632f542-7ac2-46e4-bd9c-603e3673f0cd/",
  "rowInReport": 5
}

🧾 Reading the output

Paper filings are scans, so their trades cannot be read. Each arrives as one row with the member, the disclosure date, a link, and the note "Paper filing, not read. Open reportUrl to see its transactions." The trade filters cannot see inside them and you are never charged for one. Switch List paper filings off to leave them out.

Run it with no dates and you get the one sample row, a real trade, so you can see the shape first.

The status message leads with "Returned N trades from M filings disclosed from ... to ...", then paper filings, the stop reason, anything that could not be read, and "Today's filings may still be coming in." RUN_REPORT has one entry per filing and a count for every filter.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Congress Stock Trades Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Set Last days, or a Disclosed from and Disclosed to range. 3. Narrow it if you want: Members, States, Tickers, Minimum amount. 4. Set Maximum trades, then click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.65 per 1,000 trades. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

You pay per trade row delivered. Paper filing rows, trades your filters set aside, filings that could not be read, and the sample row are all free.

💡 What people use it for

• A daily or weekly schedule on Last days, picking up whatever was disclosed since the last run.
• Following one member by name, or one state's delegation, across both chambers.
• Watching a ticker to see who in Congress has been trading it and when.
• Comparing trade dates against disclosure dates to see how long a member took to report.
• Back-filling years of filings with a Disclosed from date and letting it run.

🚧 What it does not do

• Paper filings are not read. They are scanned forms. You get the link, not the trades.
• Ranges, not amounts. Members report a band, so amountMin and amountMax are as precise as

this gets.

• House filings start in 2015. The Clerk's yearly lists hold no periodic transaction reports

before that. The Senate's search goes back to 2012.

• Older House filings scramble capital letters. Between 2015 and 2021 the text itself reads

"apple Inc." and "(TsLa)". Tickers are put back into capitals, names are left as filed.

• Categories follow the filer, not a standard. The Senate files most ETFs as plain Stock, so an

ETF filter finds mostly House rows.

• Amended filings repeat their trades, and both copies come back. filingStatus tells them

apart.

• No prices, no returns, no holdings. Only what the filing says.
• The two sites update on their own schedules, so the newest House filings can lag the Senate's

by a day or two.

• A senator the state table does not place gets no state, and then falls outside any state

filter. The run counts those.

🧭 Which filings scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need an account for either site? No. No login, no API key.

Why is the trade date so far before the disclosure date? Members have 30 days from being told about a trade, and no more than 45 days from the trade, to file it. The gap is the law working as written.

Why does my ticker filter miss things? Plenty of rows carry no ticker at all. A bond, a private company or a fund held inside an account will not match one.

How do I run this daily? Set Last days to 2 rather than 1, so a filing that lands late still gets picked up, and dedupe on reportId plus rowInReport.

Can I go back years? Yes. Set Disclosed from and leave Disclosed to empty, and raise Maximum trades.

Is this legal to use? Read the notice at the top of this page. The restriction is in the statute, not in our terms, and it is about what you do with the reports. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law covers the scraping side, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the run ID and the dates you used. The status message and RUN_REPORT name which filings fell short.