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US Government Trade

List of Trades

This endpoint provides a comprehensive overview of public transactions filed by members of the U.S. Government. Each entry offers detailed information including company name, exchange, ticker symbol, and the precise transaction date. Additionally, the endpoint reveals the individual filer (with their party affiliation and congressional chamber), the transaction type, the transaction's USD range, and any committees that the filer belongs to. By analyzing these trades, you can gain insights into the trading patterns and potential influences within government activities.

Available Data Points:

  • Company: The company name of the stock.
  • Exchange: The symbol of the exchange where the stock is listed.
  • Ticker: Stock ticker of the company.
  • Transaction date: The date when the transaction was done
  • Report date: The date when the transaction ws reported.
  • USD value: The transaction's USD value range,
  • Transaction type: The type of transaction (i.e. buy, sell, etc)
  • Filer name: The name of the individual who filed the transaction
  • Party: The political party affiliation of the filer.
  • Chamber: The congressional chamber where the filer is appointed.
  • Committees: A list of the committees that the filer participates.

Try it out! You can test the API with the trial key TEST. Simply include it in your request headers; either here, or add the header "Ortex-Api-Key": "TEST" to your http request.

Trial key restrictions: A list of randomly selected rows will be returned

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get/api/v1/us_government_trades

Query parameters

chamberstring

Chamber

exchangestring

Exchange symbol

filerNamestring

Name of individual who filed

from_datestring

Transaction from date in format yyyy-mm-dd. Default: one year back from to_date

pageinteger

A page number within the paginated result set.

page_sizeinteger

Number of results to return per page.

partystring

Political party

tickerstring

Company ticker

to_datestring

Transaction to date in format yyyy-mm-dd. Default: today. Maximum date range is 1 year

transactionTypestring

Transation type

Response

paginationLinksobject
lengthinteger required
creditsUsedinteger
creditsLeftinteger

Example response

{
  "paginationLinks": {
    "next": "http://api.example.org/accounts/?page=4",
    "previous": "http://api.example.org/accounts/?page=2"
  },
  "length": 123,
  "creditsUsed": 3,
  "creditsLeft": 999
}