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FEC Federal Candidate Finance Scraper

Extract every federal candidate's campaign finance totals from the Federal Election Commission's official API (api.open.fec.gov) — receipts, disbursements, cash on hand, debts, individual itemized contributions, party committee transfers, principal committees, and candidacy status. Filter by election cycle, office (President / Senate / House), state, district, party, candidate name, or status code.

This is the primary-source FEC data that powers Politico, OpenSecrets, FollowTheMoney, and every political-finance reporter and PAC. Records update nightly as new filings come in.

Data fields

How to scrape FEC campaign finance data

1. Set the cycle (default 2026).
2. (Optional) office: P, S, or H.
3. (Optional) state (two-letter), district, party (DEM, REP, LIB, etc.).
4. (Optional) candidateName for full-text search.
5. (Optional) sortBy: -receipts, -disbursements, -cash_on_hand_end_period, or any FEC sortable field.
6. (Recommended) Provide your own apiKey from https://api.data.gov/signup/ to avoid the shared DEMO_KEY rate limit.
7. Set maxResults.
8. Click Start.

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.003 per candidate record.

Input example

{
"cycle":2026,
"office":"S",
"state":"PA",
"sortBy":"-receipts",
"maxResults":50
}

Output example

{
"candidateId":"H6AL05210",
"name":"HOWARD, GREG MR JR",
"party":"DEM",
"office":"House",
"state":"AL",
"district":"05",
"cycle":2026,
"receipts":25000,
"disbursements":2189.95,
"cashOnHandEndPeriod":586.28,
"candidateStatus":"N",
"incumbentChallenge":"Challenger"
}

Use cases

• Political journalism: identify top-raising candidates, surface late entrants, track cash-on-hand by race.
• Polling / pollster targeting: build call lists for candidate committees by state/office/cycle.
• PAC & vendor business development: prospect campaigns by spending tier and party.
• Academic political science: bulk panel data on candidate financial trajectories.
• Compliance / opposition research: pull all filings by a single candidate or committee.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? Optional. Without one, this Actor uses the shared DEMO_KEY (~30 req/hr, ~50 req/day). For unlimited use, get a free key at https://api.data.gov/signup/ — takes 30 seconds.

Does this include individual donor names? No — this Actor returns candidate-level financial totals. For contributor-level data, FEC publishes separate endpoints; we can build a sibling Actor on request.

How current is the data? FEC updates nightly. Each Actor run hits the live API.

Legal

Data sourced from the U.S. Federal Election Commission (api.open.fec.gov), a US Government public dataset. All campaign finance records are public by law (FECA, 52 U.S.C. § 30104). No authentication bypass.