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One API Key for Government Contracts, SEC Filings, FDA Alerts, and Macro Data

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What if one API key could do it all?

What if you could query government contracts, SEC insider trades, FDA drug recalls, and US macro indicators all from one API endpoint? No juggling. No switching dashboards. Just clean, unified access.

That's exactly what the Government & Financial Data Bundle API delivers.

The Problem: 4 APIs, 4 Headaches

If you've ever built a dashboard, research tool, or financial app that touches government data, you know the drill:

  • USASpending / SAM.gov → API key #1, rate limit #1, docs you'll re-read 10 times
  • SEC EDGAR → API key #2, completely different auth model, different base URL
  • FDA OpenFDA → API key #3, yet another rate limit tier, yet another SDK to wire up
  • FRED / World Bank → API key #4, different pagination, different response shapes

That's 4 separate subscriptions, 4 sets of credentials to rotate, 4 rate limits to monitor, and 4 documentation sites open in your browser tabs at any given time.

And when one of them goes down, changes their schema, or deprecates an endpoint? You get to play whack-a-mole across your entire codebase.

This is not a scaling problem — it's a developer experience problem. And it's completely solvable.

The Solution: One Unified Proxy

The Government & Financial Data Bundle API at https://api-bundle.onrender.com is a single proxy layer that wraps all four data sources under one roof:

  • One API key
  • One base URL
  • One rate limit to manage
  • Consistent response shapes
  • Unified error handling

You authenticate once with X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY and query whatever you need. That's it.

Code Examples: 4 Endpoints, One Key

Here's how simple it is. All four calls use the same header, the same base URL, and return clean JSON.

1. Government Contracts

Pull the latest federal contract awards:

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://api-bundle.onrender.com/contracts?limit=5"
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Returns recent contract awards from USASpending — agency, recipient, award amount, NAICS code, and more.

2. SEC EDGAR Filings

Query insider trades and filings for any public company:

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://api-bundle.onrender.com/edgar/ticker/AAPL"
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Get Apple's latest SEC filings — 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, Form 4 insider transactions — all parsed and ready.

3. FDA Drug Adverse Events

Monitor drug safety signals in real time:

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://api-bundle.onrender.com/fda/drug/adverse-events?name=aspirin&limit=3"
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Search adverse event reports from the FDA's openFDA database by drug name. Great for pharmacovigilance dashboards or compliance tooling.

4. Macro Economic Indicators

Fetch US GDP data (or any major macro series):

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://api-bundle.onrender.com/macro/gdp?country=US&limit=3"
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Returns GDP time series data — current values, historical snapshots, units, and source metadata. Perfect for macro dashboards or economic research tools.

JavaScript Quick Start

Want to integrate this in a Node.js app? Here's a minimal fetch wrapper:

const BASE_URL = "https://api-bundle.onrender.com";
const API_KEY = process.env.BUNDLE_API_KEY;

async function queryBundle(path) {
  const res = await fetch(`${BASE_URL}${path}`, {
    headers: { "X-API-Key": API_KEY }
  });
  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`API error: ${res.status}`);
  return res.json();
}

// Fetch latest contracts + AAPL filings in parallel
const [contracts, appleFilings] = await Promise.all([
  queryBundle("/contracts?limit=5"),
  queryBundle("/edgar/ticker/AAPL")
]);

console.log(contracts, appleFilings);
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One import. One env var. Two data sources — simultaneously.

Pricing

The bundle is available on RapidAPI with a tiered model that scales with your usage:

Plan Price Daily Requests
FREE $0/mo 100 req/day
PRO $29/mo 5,000 req/day
ULTRA $79/mo 25,000 req/day
MEGA $299/mo Unlimited

The free tier is genuinely useful for prototyping, side projects, and research. PRO handles most production apps comfortably. MEGA is there when you're running high-frequency pipelines or serving many end users.

Get Your Key

Find the API on RapidAPI and grab your key here:

https://rapidapi.com/search/government

Search for "Government & Financial Data Bundle" and subscribe to the free tier. You'll have a working key in under 2 minutes.

Bonus: Embeddable Widgets

If you want to go beyond raw API calls and embed live government data directly into a webpage — think embeddable charts, tables, and tickers — check out:

https://data-widgets.onrender.com

These are pre-built, drop-in widgets powered by the same data bundle. Copy a script tag, paste it into your HTML, and you've got a live FDA recall tracker or SEC filing feed on your site. No backend required.

The Bottom Line

Government and financial data is rich, public, and underused — mostly because the tooling to access it is fragmented and annoying. The Government & Financial Data Bundle API removes that friction.

One key. One URL. Four data universes.

If you're building anything that touches procurement data, public company filings, drug safety, or macro economics — this is the developer experience upgrade you've been waiting for.

Go grab the free tier at RapidAPI and ship something this week.

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