MinakiLabs·Political Data API

The political-money API for developers.

One key. Three public-record datasets — congressional stock trades, federal contract awards, and corporate lobbying — joined by SEC ticker. Programmatic, well-documented, commercial use allowed.

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What you get

Congress trades

64,500+ trades 2012–present. House PTRs + Senate eFD. Party-resolved at 98.5% via bioguide.

Federal contracts

USASpending.gov 2019-forward, contracts only, biased toward public-company recipients via EDGAR. Subsidiaries roll up to parent.

Corporate lobbying

550,000+ filings Senate LDA quarterly disclosures. 2019-forward. Public-company client resolution via SEC EDGAR (shared ticker layer).

Built for cross-dataset joins

Quiver and Capitol Trades sell dashboards over one dataset each. We're different: the API is the product, and the same ticker works across all three datasets. Find Microsoft's congressional trades (/v1/tickers/MSFT), federal contracts (/v1/contracts/MSFT), and lobbying spend (/v1/lobbying/MSFT) in three calls.

Commercial use is allowed. All data is U.S. government public record (17 U.S.C. § 105). Build apps, services, datasets — no attribution legally required, none of the "commercial use prohibited" clauses you find in competitor APIs. See GET /v1/meta for the license block.

Three URLs, one key

WhatWhere
API https://api.congress.minaki.io/v1/*
Get a key https://portal.congress.minaki.io/
API reference https://docs.congress.minaki.io/reference/

Auth: pass your key as the apikey header on every call. Free tier: 60 req/min, 5,000 req/day. Rate-limit headers included in every response so you can back off cleanly.

Try it

One call returns the suite's headline coverage:

curl -H "apikey: $YOUR_KEY" https://api.congress.minaki.io/v1/meta

Microsoft's lobbying spend, across all 7 years, attributed via EDGAR:

curl -H "apikey: $YOUR_KEY" https://api.congress.minaki.io/v1/lobbying/MSFT

Returns:

{
  "ticker": "MSFT",
  "parent_company": "MICROSOFT CORP",
  "total_filings": 571,
  "total_income": 26820000.0,
  "top_registrants": [
    { "label": "TIBER CREEK GROUP",       "count": 27, "total_dollars": 2430000.0 },
    { "label": "FORBES TATE PARTNERS",    "count": 24, "total_dollars": 1680000.0 },
    { "label": "MEHLMAN CASTAGNETTI",     "count": 25, "total_dollars": 1750000.0 }
  ],
  "top_issues": [
    { "label": "TEC — Telecommunications", "count": 168, "total_dollars": 7860000.0 },
    { "label": "CPI — Computer Industry",  "count": 144, "total_dollars": 6900000.0 },
    { "label": "TRD — Trade",              "count":  92, "total_dollars": 4470000.0 }
  ]
}

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