Congressional Trades API (beta)

The EODHD Congressional Trades API returns stock-trade disclosures filed by members of the US Congress. Under the STOCK Act, senators and representatives must publicly disclose their securities transactions within 45 days.

Each record pairs the trading member with the traded asset and the transaction, and adds fields the raw filings do not provide directly: numeric bounds parsed from the disclosed amount range, the number of days between the trade and its disclosure, a flag for filings that missed the 45-day window, and a link back to the original filing for verification.

Overview

The endpoint is reached over HTTPS with a GET request and authenticated by an api_token query parameter, the same token used across the EODHD API. It returns a JSON object with three top-level keys: data (the array of trade records), meta (the total row count for the current filter and the active page window), and links (the URL of the next page, when one exists). Results are paged with page[offset] and page[limit], where the default page size is 20 rows and the maximum is 100.

https://eodhd.com/api/congressional-trades?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN

Request

All parameters are optional except api_token. Filters combine with logical AND, and the member, date-range, symbol, and transaction-type filters can be used together to narrow the result set.

Parameters

Request Example

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https://eodhd.com/api/congressional-trades?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN&chamber=senate&transaction_type=purchase,sale&transaction_date_from=2026-01-01&page[limit]=5

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curl --location "https://eodhd.com/api/congressional-trades?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN&chamber=senate&transaction_type=purchase,sale&transaction_date_from=2026-01-01&page[limit]=5&fmt=json"

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$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
    CURLOPT_URL => 'https://eodhd.com/api/congressional-trades?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN&chamber=senate&transaction_type=purchase,sale&transaction_date_from=2026-01-01&page[limit]=5&fmt=json',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
    CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
));

$data = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);

try {
    $data = json_decode($data, true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
    var_dump($data);
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Error. '.$e->getMessage();
}

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import requests

url = f'https://eodhd.com/api/congressional-trades?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN&chamber=senate&transaction_type=purchase,sale&transaction_date_from=2026-01-01&page[limit]=5&fmt=json'
data = requests.get(url).json()

print(data)

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library(httr)
library(jsonlite)

url <- 'https://eodhd.com/api/congressional-trades?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN&chamber=senate&transaction_type=purchase,sale&transaction_date_from=2026-01-01&page[limit]=5&fmt=json'
response <- GET(url)

if (http_type(response) == "application/json") {
    content <- content(response, "text", encoding = "UTF-8")
    cat(content)
} else {
    cat("Error while receiving data\n")
}

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Response

Each record carries a top-level chamber field and four nested objects: member, asset, transaction, and source. The example below is a single record; a real response returns an array under data.

Response Example

{
  "data": [
    {
      "chamber": "senate",
      "member": {
        "bioguide_id": "W000802",
        "first_name": "Sheldon",
        "last_name": "Whitehouse",
        "full_name": "Sheldon Whitehouse",
        "office": "Whitehouse, Sheldon (Senator)",
        "state": null,
        "party": null,
        "district": null
      },
      "asset": {
        "symbol": "NVDA",
        "description": "NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock",
        "asset_type": "Stock"
      },
      "transaction": {
        "type": "sale",
        "transaction_date": "2026-06-30",
        "disclosure_date": "2026-07-08",
        "owner": "Self",
        "amount_range": "$15,001 - $50,000",
        "amount_low": 15001,
        "amount_high": 50000,
        "days_to_disclose": 8,
        "is_late": false,
        "comment": null
      },
      "source": {
        "filing_url": "https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/view/ptr/5d9b1b8e-2ae1-442b-860c-e79b8a701dc6/",
        "source_system": "senate",
        "filing_identifier": "5d9b1b8e-2ae1-442b-860c-e79b8a701dc6"
      }
    }
  ],
  "meta": { "total": 44604, "page": { "offset": 0, "limit": 20 } },
  "links": { "next": "https://eodhd.com/api/congressional-trades?page[offset]=20&page[limit]=20" }
}

Response Fields

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Notes and Limitations

• Both chambers are returned together. Use chamber=senate or chamber=house to restrict to one; the chamber field on each record identifies its origin.
• Filters are passed as flat query keys such as chamber=senate and transaction_type=purchase,sale, not as filter[…] keys. Only pagination uses brackets: page[offset] and page[limit].
• The amount_low and amount_high fields are parsed from the disclosed amount band; days_to_disclose and is_late are computed against the 45-day STOCK Act window. These are provided by EODHD and are not part of the raw filing.
• Some holdings, including many bonds and other instruments, carry no ticker symbol. For those records asset.symbol is null while asset.description and asset.asset_type remain populated.
• Source data is reproduced as filed. Member details such as party and state are populated only where the source provides them, and occasional data-entry errors in the original disclosures, such as an implausible transaction date, are passed through rather than silently corrected. The filing_url on each record links to the official source for verification.
• Filings are polled from the official Senate EFD and House Clerk portals several times a day, with a nightly reconciliation pass. New disclosures appear after the source publishes them.