The latest articles on DEV Community by Urokraake (@urokraake). https://dev.to/urokraake https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4045333%2F1381476e-a5fa-469b-afa3-436e6f29a61b.png https://dev.to/urokraake en Urokraake Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:44:35 +0000 https://dev.to/urokraake/i-made-a-congress-trading-tracker-api-3fan https://dev.to/urokraake/i-made-a-congress-trading-tracker-api-3fan <p>By law, members of Congress have to publicly disclose their stock trades within a matter of weeks. I built an API that turns those disclosures into something you can actually query and build on, instead of digging through messy filings by hand.</p> <p>The API serves stock trades by members of Congress (not the Senate at this time, as they have a scary prompt warning against using their data commercially), all the way back to 2020 - and updated every 6 hours. There are endpoints for querying latest trades made, filtering by politicians/tickers/buy/sell, most-traded tickers, reconstructed politician portfolio++.</p> <p>The API can be queried directly or hooked up to a dashboard, trading apps etc. Basically the same as Unusual Whales, Capitol Trades or Autopilot - just free and you have access to the structured data to do with it as you'd like.</p> <p>There's also a possible conflict-of-interest endpoint. Trades get automatically cross-referenced against each politician's committee assignments, so you can surface cases where, say, someone on a defense-oversight committee is trading defense contractor stock.</p> <p>The basic tier is totally free, and I would be super happy to hear your thoughts and feedback!</p> <p><a href="https://rapidapi.com/urokr%C3%A5ke/api/politician-trades-api" rel="noopener noreferrer">Congress Trades API</a></p> stocks investment api python