# Politician's trades

`GET` `https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/politics/politician/trades`

Trades reported by members of congress, with the politician linked where known.
If a date is given, will only return trades whose transaction date is <= the given input date.

This is an enterprise only endpoint. Contact dev@unusualwhales.com for details about accessing this data.


## Authentication

```
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
```

## Query Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|------|------|----------|-------------|
| `limit` | Default 500 Max 500 Min 1 | No | How many items to return. Default: 500. Max: 500. Min: 1. |
| `date` | Optional Market Date | No | A trading date in the format of YYYY-MM-DD.
This is optional and by default the last trading date.
 |
| `ticker` | Optional Ticker | No | Optional ticker symbol to filter results |
| `politician_id` | Politician ID | No | The Politician's ID that you'd like to filter by. |
| `filter_late_reports` | Filter Late Reports Only | No | If true, will filter out any trades with a transaction date after the input date. |
| `page` | Page | No | The page number for the data being requested (default is 1). |
| `disclosure_newer_than` | NewerThan | No | If provided, will only return trades with a disclosure date >= this date. |
| `disclosure_older_than` | OlderThan | No | If provided, will only return trades with a disclosure date <= this date. |
| `transaction_newer_than` | NewerThan | No | If provided, will only return trades with a transaction date >= this date. |
| `transaction_older_than` | OlderThan | No | If provided, will only return trades with a transaction date <= this date. |
| `order_by` | Congress trade order by field | No | The field to order the congress trades by. Defaults to filed_at_date. |
| `order_direction` | OrderDirection | No | Whether to sort descending or ascending. Descending by default. |



## Example

### curl

```bash
curl -X GET "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/politics/politician/trades" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"
```

### Python

```python
import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.unusualwhales.com")
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY", "Accept": "application/json"}
conn.request("GET", "/api/politics/politician/trades", headers=headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
print(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
```

## Response Example

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "asset": "NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock",
      "asset_type": "stock",
      "filed_at_date": "2026-07-15",
      "high_value": "5000000",
      "id": "b3f1c2d4-5e6f-4a7b-8c9d-0e1f2a3b4c5d",
      "is_amendment": false,
      "is_etf": false,
      "low_value": "1000001",
      "mid_value": "3000000",
      "name": "Nancy Pelosi",
      "politician_id": "18f9fc95-4661-444e-99f5-99d3778e0c31",
      "ticker": "NVDA",
      "transaction_date": "2026-06-20",
      "transaction_type": "Buy"
    }
  ]
}
```