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Capitol Trades CLI

By ItamarZand88· ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB· 0

Query US congressional stock trades and politician investment activity with rich filters.

Installation

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When Claude uses it

Queries US congressional stock trades (STOCK Act disclosures) on capitoltrades.com via the cli-web-capitoltrades command-line tool — trades with rich filters, politician profiles and leaderboards, issuer lookup with price history, plus insight articles, buzz, and press. Use when the user asks about congress trades, politician stock trades, STOCK Act disclosures, Capitol Trades, insider trading by politicians, or which stocks members of Congress are buying or selling. Prefer this CLI over fetching the Capitol Trades website. No authentication required.

What this skill does

cli-web-capitoltrades

Query Capitol Trades — US congressional stock-trade disclosures (read-only, no auth, CloudFront bypass built in). Install: pip install cli-web-capitoltrades

Commands

CommandPurposeKey options
trades listBrowse/filter trades--politician ID, --issuer ID, --party, --chamber, --tx-type buy|sell|exchange, --sector, --size, --sort traded|pubdate|filedafter|tradesize, --sort-direction, --page, --page-size
trades by-ticker TICKERTrades for a ticker (e.g. NVDA)--party, --tx-type, --page, --page-size
trades get TRADE_IDSingle trade detail
trades statsAggregate stats from the trades overview
politicians listPoliticians tracked on the site--party, --chamber, --state CA, --page, --page-size
politicians topLeaderboard by trade count or volume--by trades|volume, --party, --chamber, --page-size
politicians get POLITICIAN_IDProfile by bioguide ID (e.g. Y000067)
issuers listList issuers (companies, bonds, funds)--sector, --page, --page-size
issuers search QUERYSearch issuers; returns price history, stats, sector--full (full price history)
issuers get ISSUER_IDIssuer detail by internal ID (e.g. 435544)
articles list / articles get SLUGCapitol Trades insight articles--page, --page-size
buzz list / buzz get SLUGCurated stock-market news snippets--page, --page-size
press list / press get SLUGPress coverage about Capitol Trades--page, --page-size

ID conventions: politicians use bioguide IDs (Y000067), issuers use internal numeric IDs (435544) — issuers search and trades by-ticker resolve tickers for you.

Examples

# Latest congressional trades
cli-web-capitoltrades --json trades list --page-size 25

# Who's trading NVDA? Buys only, by Democrats
cli-web-capitoltrades --json trades by-ticker NVDA --tx-type buy --party democrat

# Most active senators by traded volume
cli-web-capitoltrades --json politicians top --by volume --chamber senate

# All trades by a specific politician (bioguide ID from politicians list/top)
cli-web-capitoltrades --json trades list --politician P000197 --sort traded

# Issuer lookup with price history and stats
cli-web-capitoltrades --json issuers search "Apple" --full

JSON output

--json is a top-level flag and goes before the command group: cli-web-capitoltrades --json trades list (not after the subcommand). Success responses are {"success": true, "data": ...}; errors are {"error": true, "code": "...", "message": "..."}.

Utilities

cli-web-capitoltrades doctor [--json] self-diagnoses the local setup (install, auth, dependencies). cli-web-capitoltrades mcp-serve serves the commands as MCP tools over stdio.

Agent tips

  • --size brackets for trade value: <1k, 1k-15k, 15k-50k, 50k-100k, 100k-250k, 250k-500k, 500k-1m, 1m-5m, 5m-25m, 25m-50m.
  • Workflow for "what is politician X trading": politicians list --state ... or politicians top → take the bioguide ID → trades list --politician ID.
  • Running with no subcommand opens an interactive REPL.

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