Congress Trades
by api.newsgurus.ai in Markets & finance
News Gurus Intel API — latest US congressional stock trades (STOCK Act): member, party, buy/sell, ticker, amount, dates. Example: R-TX member, Purchase NVDA, $15,001-$50,000, traded 2026-07-08, disclosed 2026-07-12. Optional ?symbol= filter. Per-call alternative to $25-75/mo congressional-data subscriptions; public disclosure data, no vendor licensing. Educational data, not financial advice.
https://api.newsgurus.ai/x402/congress/trades- Price
- $0.05
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 95.5%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 407 ms
- 455 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 4 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
How to call it
GET https://api.newsgurus.ai/x402/congress/trades
Each call costs $0.05 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://api.newsgurus.ai/x402/congress/trades?limit=25&symbol=NVDAParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
limit | integer | No | Default: 25. |
symbol | string | No | Optional ticker filter |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:00:00+00:00",
"total": 1,
"trades": [
{
"amount_range": "$15,001 - $50,000",
"disclosure_date": "2026-07-12",
"member_name": "Jane Doe",
"party": "R",
"state": "TX",
"ticker": "NVDA",
"transaction_date": "2026-07-08",
"transaction_type": "Purchase"
}
]
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.05.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://api.newsgurus.ai/x402/congress/trades?limit=25&symbol=NVDA'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://api.newsgurus.ai/x402/congress/trades?limit=25&symbol=NVDA' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.05 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.05" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.05 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.newsgurus.ai%2Fx402%2Fcongress%2Ftrades
const res = await pay("https://api.newsgurus.ai/x402/congress/trades?limit=25&symbol=NVDA");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.05 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.05"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://api.newsgurus.ai/x402/congress/trades?limit=25&symbol=NVDA")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 h ago | Passed | 402 | 455 ms | $0.05 |
| 8 h ago | Passed | 402 | 218 ms | $0.05 |
| 12 h ago | Passed | 402 | 212 ms | $0.05 |
| 16 h ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 530 | 530 | 37 ms | - |
| 20 h ago | Passed | 402 | 430 ms | $0.05 |
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| 24 h ago | Passed | 402 | 334 ms | $0.05 |
| 27 h ago | Passed | 402 | 432 ms | $0.05 |
| 31 h ago | Passed | 402 | 143 ms | $0.05 |
| 35 h ago | Passed | 402 | 438 ms | $0.05 |
| 39 h ago | Passed | 402 | 398 ms | $0.05 |
| 42 h ago | Passed | 402 | 430 ms | $0.05 |
| 46 h ago | Passed | 402 | 423 ms | $0.05 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 422 ms | $0.05 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 431 ms | $0.05 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 430 ms | $0.05 |