A client to interact with the OpenFEC API. The OpenFEC API provides programmatic access to campaign finance data stored by the Federal Election Commission.
Installation
You can install the development version of fecapi from GitHub with:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("jonthegeek/fecapi")Made with {beekeeper}
This package is being developed using the {beekeeper} package. Development is very active, and this package will likely change a lot in the coming weeks.
Usage
This package is still a work in progress, and we do not yet recommend usage. However, you can experiment using the fec_all_api() function, or the fec_get_candidates() function.
# Get your API key at https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/
library(fecapi)
fec_get_candidates() |> head()
#> # A tibble: 6 × 24
#> active_through candidate_id candidate_inactive candidate_status cycles
#> <int> <chr> <lgl> <chr> <list>
#> 1 2024 P40014052 FALSE N <list [1]>
#> 2 2024 P40013401 FALSE N <list [1]>
#> 3 2024 P40013393 FALSE N <list [1]>
#> 4 2020 P00011569 FALSE N <list [2]>
#> 5 2004 P40002172 FALSE N <list [2]>
#> 6 2022 S2CO00175 FALSE P <list [2]>
#> # ℹ 19 more variables: district <chr>, district_number <int>,
#> # election_districts <list>, election_years <list>, federal_funds_flag <lgl>,
#> # first_file_date <chr>, has_raised_funds <lgl>,
#> # inactive_election_years <lgl>, incumbent_challenge <chr>,
#> # incumbent_challenge_full <chr>, last_f2_date <chr>, last_file_date <chr>,
#> # load_date <chr>, name <chr>, office <chr>, office_full <chr>, party <chr>,
#> # party_full <chr>, state <chr>
fec_get_candidates(office = "P") |> head()
#> # A tibble: 6 × 24
#> active_through candidate_id candidate_inactive candidate_status cycles
#> <int> <chr> <lgl> <chr> <list>
#> 1 2024 P40014052 FALSE N <list [1]>
#> 2 2024 P40013401 FALSE N <list [1]>
#> 3 2024 P40013393 FALSE N <list [1]>
#> 4 2020 P00011569 FALSE N <list [2]>
#> 5 2004 P40002172 FALSE N <list [2]>
#> 6 2008 P80002926 FALSE N <list [6]>
#> # ℹ 19 more variables: district <chr>, district_number <int>,
#> # election_districts <list>, election_years <list>, federal_funds_flag <lgl>,
#> # first_file_date <chr>, has_raised_funds <lgl>,
#> # inactive_election_years <lgl>, incumbent_challenge <chr>,
#> # incumbent_challenge_full <chr>, last_f2_date <chr>, last_file_date <chr>,
#> # load_date <chr>, name <chr>, office <chr>, office_full <chr>, party <chr>,
#> # party_full <chr>, state <chr>Code of Conduct
Please note that the fecapi project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.