Unusual Congressional Trades
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": [
{
"amount": "$1,001 - $15,000",
"asset": "NVIDIA Corp - Common Stock",
"asset_type": "stock",
"company_name": "NVIDIA Corp",
"description": "<string>",
"filing_date": "2025-10-04T00:00:00.000Z",
"id": "5fbe81ac-1157-4bc8-9d76-c77e6164fe25",
"politician_id": "e138f347-ae92-4cfb-8f41-7036ff09a213",
"politician_name": "Nancy Pelosi",
"ticker": "NVDA",
"transaction_date": "2025-09-12T00:00:00.000Z",
"transaction_type": "Buy",
"unusual_activity_meta": [
{}
],
"unusual_activity_tags": [
"committee_conflict"
]
}
]
}{
"code": "authentication_required",
"documentation_url": "https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs",
"expected_format": "uuid",
"message": "The API token provided is not in the expected format. Unusual Whales API tokens are UUIDs, such as 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000.",
"reason": "malformed_token",
"request_id": "GNI_YTC1CRnw2LACGBvE",
"retryable": false,
"support_email": "[email protected]",
"token_url": "https://unusualwhales.com/dashboard/api"
}{
"code": "missing_access",
"documentation_url": "https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs",
"message": "The API token provided is valid but is not permitted to access this route.",
"reason": "route_not_permitted",
"request_id": "GNI_YTC1CRnw2LACGBvE",
"retryable": false,
"support_email": "[email protected]",
"token_url": "https://unusualwhales.com/dashboard/api"
}{
"msg": "Invalid path input: MSFT12 (valid example: AAPL) - Invalid query input(s): date=2023-02-140 (valid example: date=2024-01-18)",
"path": "/api/darkpool/MSFT12",
"query": "date=2023-02-140",
"url": "localhost:4000/api/darkpool/MSFT12?date=2023-02-140"
}"Something went wrong"unusual_trades
Unusual Congressional Trades
Returns congressional trades that have been flagged as unusual, optionally filtered by reason tags.
Supported types values include committee_conflict, first_person_to_trade, low_marketcap,
unusual_industry, unusually_large_trade, and fec_donation_conflict.
This is a premium endpoint. Contact [email protected] to request access.
GET
/
api
/
congress
/
unusual-trades
Unusual Congressional Trades
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/congress/unusual-trades")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": [
{
"amount": "$1,001 - $15,000",
"asset": "NVIDIA Corp - Common Stock",
"asset_type": "stock",
"company_name": "NVIDIA Corp",
"description": "<string>",
"filing_date": "2025-10-04T00:00:00.000Z",
"id": "5fbe81ac-1157-4bc8-9d76-c77e6164fe25",
"politician_id": "e138f347-ae92-4cfb-8f41-7036ff09a213",
"politician_name": "Nancy Pelosi",
"ticker": "NVDA",
"transaction_date": "2025-09-12T00:00:00.000Z",
"transaction_type": "Buy",
"unusual_activity_meta": [
{}
],
"unusual_activity_tags": [
"committee_conflict"
]
}
]
}{
"code": "authentication_required",
"documentation_url": "https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs",
"expected_format": "uuid",
"message": "The API token provided is not in the expected format. Unusual Whales API tokens are UUIDs, such as 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000.",
"reason": "malformed_token",
"request_id": "GNI_YTC1CRnw2LACGBvE",
"retryable": false,
"support_email": "[email protected]",
"token_url": "https://unusualwhales.com/dashboard/api"
}{
"code": "missing_access",
"documentation_url": "https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs",
"message": "The API token provided is valid but is not permitted to access this route.",
"reason": "route_not_permitted",
"request_id": "GNI_YTC1CRnw2LACGBvE",
"retryable": false,
"support_email": "[email protected]",
"token_url": "https://unusualwhales.com/dashboard/api"
}{
"msg": "Invalid path input: MSFT12 (valid example: AAPL) - Invalid query input(s): date=2023-02-140 (valid example: date=2024-01-18)",
"path": "/api/darkpool/MSFT12",
"query": "date=2023-02-140",
"url": "localhost:4000/api/darkpool/MSFT12?date=2023-02-140"
}"Something went wrong"Authorizations
Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.
Query Parameters
Comma-separated list of unusual-activity tags to filter by. Returns all unusual trades when omitted.
Number of results per page (max 500).
Required range:
1 <= x <= 500Page number (1-indexed).
Required range:
x >= 1Response
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Last modified on September 29, 2026
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