# FEC Independent Expenditures — PAC Spending API (`nexgendata/fec-independent-expenditures-scraper`) Actor

Scrape FEC Schedule E independent expenditures by PACs and Super PACs supporting or opposing federal candidates. Get committee, candidate, amount, payee, date, election cycle, support/oppose flag. OpenSecrets alternative for campaign finance researchers, journalists, opposition research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/fec-independent-expenditures-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $30.00 / 1,000 expenditure records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## FEC Independent Expenditures

FEC independent-expenditure public records — PAC spending, support/oppose, amounts and payees.

> Factual public records — not financial, investment or compliance advice. Screening data is provided as-is for your own compliance program.

### 📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per expenditure (full output has 8 fields):

- `committee_name` — Committee name
- `candidate_name` — Candidate name
- `office` — Office
- `support_oppose` — Support oppose
- `amount` — Amount
- `expenditure_date` — Expenditure date
- `purpose` — Purpose
- `payee` — Payee

**Pricing:** $0.030 per expenditure (Pay-Per-Event) — about **33 expenditures per $1**.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull official records on demand.

**Agentic payments (x402):** Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

### 🔗 Related regulatory actors

**US government data & filings:**

[Federal Register](https://apify.com/nexgendata/federal-register-rules-scraper) · [Treasury Auctions](https://apify.com/nexgendata/us-treasury-auction-results) · [Treasury Yields](https://apify.com/nexgendata/treasury-yields-bonds) · [FEC Contributions](https://apify.com/nexgendata/fec-campaign-finance-intelligence) · [IRS 990](https://apify.com/nexgendata/irs-990-nonprofit-explorer-scraper) · [Nonprofit 990 Records](https://apify.com/nexgendata/nonprofit-irs-990-intelligence)

**Company registries:** [Delaware](https://apify.com/nexgendata/delaware-corporations-search-scraper) · [US State Filings](https://apify.com/nexgendata/business-registration-lookup) · [India MCA](https://apify.com/nexgendata/ogd-india-companies-registry) · [GLEIF LEI](https://apify.com/nexgendata/gleif-lei-entity-resolution) · [UK PSC](https://apify.com/nexgendata/uk-psc-beneficial-ownership) · [HK Registry](https://apify.com/nexgendata/hk-companies-registry) · [Taiwan MOEA](https://apify.com/nexgendata/taiwan-moea-company-registry)

***

*Public official records and enforcement data, assembled for research and monitoring.*

# Actor input Schema

## `candidate_id` (type: `string`):

Specific FEC candidate ID (e.g. 'P00009423' for Donald Trump). If you don't know the ID, use 'candidate\_name' instead and we'll resolve it via the FEC /candidates/search/ endpoint.

## `candidate_name` (type: `string`):

Search by candidate name (e.g. 'Trump', 'Harris'). Resolved to up to 3 candidate IDs and queried in one batch.

## `committee_id` (type: `string`):

Optional FEC committee ID (e.g. 'C00010603' MAGA Inc) to restrict expenditures to a single PAC/Super PAC.

## `cycle` (type: `integer`):

Even-numbered election year (e.g. 2024, 2022, 2020). Schedule E is reported per cycle.

## `min_date` (type: `string`):

ISO date YYYY-MM-DD. Filters expenditures with dissemination\_date >= this value.

## `max_date` (type: `string`):

ISO date YYYY-MM-DD. Filters expenditures with dissemination\_date <= this value.

## `support_oppose` (type: `string`):

S = support the candidate. O = oppose. Leave blank to return both.

## `max_results` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of expenditure records to return (1-2000). Each record is one Schedule E line item.

## `apiKey` (type: `string`):

Your personal OpenFEC API key. Falls back to 'DEMO\_KEY' (rate-limited to ~30 calls/hour shared across all anonymous users). Sign up free at https://api.open.fec.gov/developers for unlimited usage.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "candidate_name": "Trump",
  "cycle": 2024,
  "min_date": "2024-01-01",
  "max_date": "2024-12-31",
  "support_oppose": "",
  "max_results": 50
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "candidate_id": "",
    "candidate_name": "Trump",
    "committee_id": "",
    "cycle": 2024,
    "min_date": "2024-01-01",
    "max_date": "2024-12-31",
    "support_oppose": "",
    "max_results": 50,
    "apiKey": ""
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/fec-independent-expenditures-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "candidate_id": "",
    "candidate_name": "Trump",
    "committee_id": "",
    "cycle": 2024,
    "min_date": "2024-01-01",
    "max_date": "2024-12-31",
    "support_oppose": "",
    "max_results": 50,
    "apiKey": "",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/fec-independent-expenditures-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "candidate_id": "",
  "candidate_name": "Trump",
  "committee_id": "",
  "cycle": 2024,
  "min_date": "2024-01-01",
  "max_date": "2024-12-31",
  "support_oppose": "",
  "max_results": 50,
  "apiKey": ""
}' |
apify call nexgendata/fec-independent-expenditures-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/fec-independent-expenditures-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/nKoq0zoAcffhQR28S/builds/KYopsG8U0RSlgVBfa/openapi.json