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===@@Campaign Finance API Summaries@@===
<<This is an attempt to capture the basic information offered up by the various campaign finance-related APIs, along with random technical notes.  Where possible, I've attached the actual API documentation to the page (see below)<<::c::

==NIMSP API==
Link: http://followthemoney.org/our-data/apis/documentation/

**Types of data offered**
~- General
~~- Election state
~~- Election year
~~- Filing state
~~- Filer
~~- Filing year
~~- Office sought
~~- Office
~- Advanced
~~- Incumbency data (whether candidate was also incumbent)
~~- Incumbency advantage (current office holder or incumbent)
~~- Original name (as reported to disclosure agency)
~~- Amount
~~- Date
~~- Last updated
~~- Type of transaction (direct or other)
~- Candidates
~~- Candidate
~~- Political party
~~- Party details
~~- Career summary
~~- Political race
~~- Type of office
~~- Status of candidate (won, lost)
~~- Incumbency status
~- Contributors
~~- Contributor
~~- Type of contributor (individual, non-individual)
~~- Business classification
~~- Industry
~~- Sector
~~- City
~~- State
~~- Zip
~~- In-state (in-state or out-of-state contributions)
~~- Employer
~~- Occupation

**Major economic sector classifications**
(Drill-down list of specific businesses and industry here: http://followthemoney.org/our-data/about-our-data/)

~- Agriculture
~- Construction
~- Communications & Electronics
~- Defense
~- Energy & Natural Resources
~- Finance, Insurance & Real Estate
~- General Business
~- Health
~- Government Agencies/Education/Other
~- Ideology/Single Issue
~- Lawyers & Lobbyists
~- Labor
~- Transportation
~- Uncoded
~- Party
~- Unitemized Contributions
~- Candidate Contributions
~- Non-Contributions
~- Public Subsidy

==CRP (Open Secrets) API==
Link: https://www.opensecrets.org/resources/create/api_doc.php

**Types of data offered**
~- Legislator
~~- CRP ID
~~- Full name
~~- Last name
~~- Party
~~- Office
~~- Gender
~~- Year first elected
~~- CRP exit code
~~- CRP comments
~~- Phone
~~- Fax
~~- Website
~~- Webform
~~- Office address
~~- Congressional Bioguide ID
~~- Votesmart ID
~~- FEC ID
~~- Twitter ID
~~- YouTube ID
~~- Facebook ID
~~- Date of birth
~- Member profile
~~- Full name
~~- CRP ID
~~- Low range of net worth
~~- High range of net worth
~~- Number of positions held
~~- Number of asset records
~~- Low range of assets
~~- High range of assets
~~- Number of transaction records
~~- Lowest transaction value
~~- Highest transaction value
~~- Link to opensecrets.org
~~- Origin
~~- Last updated
~- Asset
~~- Asset name
~~- Low range of asset value
~~- High range of asset value
~~- Industry
~~- Sector
~~- Subsidiary of
~- Transaction
~~- Asset name
~~- Date of transaction
~~- Buy/sold/exchanged
~~- Minimum value of transaction
~~- Maximum value of transaction
~- Position
~~- Position title
~~- Organization in which position is held
~- Candidate summary
~~- Lastname, firstname
~~- CRP ID
~~- Cycle year
~~- State
~~- Party
~~- Chamber
~~- First elected
~~- Next election
~~- Total receipts reported
~~- Total expenditures reported
~~- Cash on hand reported
~~- Debt reported
~~- Origin of attribution
~~- Link to opensecrets.org
~~- Last updated
~- Contributors
~~- Candidate firstname, lastname contributed to
~~- CRP ID
~~- Cycle year
~~- Origin
~~- Link to CRP data
~~- Notice
~~- Last update
~- Contributor
~~- Organization name
~~- Total from all itemized sources
~~- Total PAC contributions
~~- Total individual contributions
~- Industries
~~- Candidate firstname, lastname contributed to
~~- CRP ID
~~- Cycle year
~~- Origin
~~- Link to CRP data
~~- Last update
~- Industry
~~- Industry name
~~- Total from large individual contributions
~~- Total from PACs
~~- Total from all itemized sources
~- Totals contributed by specific industry
~~- Candidate name
~~- CRP ID
~~- Cycle year
~~- Industry
~~- Chamber
~~- Party
~~- State
~~- Total (invididual + PACs)
~~- Total from individuals
~~- Total from PACs
~~- Rank within chamber
~~- Origin
~~- Source link to CRP
~~- Last updated
~- Sectors
~~- Candidate name
~~- CRP ID
~~- Cycle year
~~- Origin
~~- Source
~~- Last updated
~- Sector
~~- Sector name
~~- CRP sector ID
~~- Total from large individual contributors
~~- Total from PACs
~~- Total from all itemized sources
~- Committee (fundraising by committee/member)
~~- Committee name
~~- Industry name
~~- Congress number
~~- Origin
~~- Source
~~- Last updated
~- Member
~~- Member name (firstname, lastname)
~~- CRP ID
~~- Party
~~- State
~~- Total receipts
~~- Total from individuals
~~- Total from PACs
~- Organization
~~- CRP orgid
~~- Standardized organization name
~~- Total contributions (FEC and IRS)
~~- Total from individuals
~~- Total from PACs
~~- Total soft money
~~- Total from 527 orgs
~~- Total to Dems
~~- Total to Reps
~~- Total lobbying for 2 years of cycle
~~- Total spent on independent expenditures
~~- Number of members invested in this org
~~- Total given to PACs
~~- Total given to party committees
~~- Total given to 527 orgs
~~- Total given to candidates
~~- Link to opensecrets.org

==Real-Time Federal Campaign Finance (Sunlight Labs) API==
Link: http://sunlightlabs.github.io/realtime-docs/

~- New filing
~~- FEC ID
~~- Committee name
~~- FEC filing number
~~- Form type
~~- Filed date
~~- Coverage from date
~~- Coverage to date
~~- SuperPAC flag
~~- Committee designation (http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/metadata/DataDictionaryCommitteeMaster.shtml)
~~- Committee type (http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/metadata/CommitteeTypeCodes.shtml)
~~- Cash on hand at end of reporting period
~~- Amount of new loans
~~- Total amount raised
~~- Total amount spent
~~- Lines present
~~- Form name
~~- SKEDA URL
~~- Spending URL
~~- Absolute URL
~~- Committee URL
~~- Process time
~~- Superceded?
~- Independent expenditures
~~- Form type (http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/metadata/CommitteeTypeCodes.shtml)
~~- Superceded?
~~- FEC ID of candidate targeted
~~- Candidate name
~~- Candidate party
~~- Candidate office
~~- Candidate state
~~- Candidate district
~~- Support or oppose?
~~- Committee making expenditure
~~- Transaction ID
~~- Payee organization
~~- Payee street 1
~~- Payee street 2
~~- Payee city
~~- Payee state
~~- Payee zip
~~- Payee name (simplified)
~~- Election code
~~- Election description
~~- Date of expenditure
~~- Amount of expenditure
~~- Purpose code for expenditure
~~- Purpose description
~~- Date signed
~~- Memo code
~~- Memo description
~~- FEC ID of committee
~~- District expenditure was made in
~~- Race URL
~~- Committee URL
~~- Candidate URL
~~- Short office (district) version
~- Congressional districts
~~- Internal district ID
~~- District URL
~~- Cycle year
~~- State
~~- Office
~~- Office district
~~- Term class (senators only)
~~- Incumbent name
~~- Incumbent party
~~- Next election date
~~- Next election code
~~- Next election description
~~- Open seat left by incumbent?
~~- Total raised by candidates in district
~~- Total spent by candidates in district
~~- Total outside expenditures for race
~~- Rothenberg rating ID
~~- Rothenberg rating text (http://rothenbergpoliticalreport.com/)
~- Candidate
~~- Name
~~- FEC ID
~~- PCC ID 
~~- Party
~~- Candidate URL
~~- Race URL
~~- IE URL
~~- Incumbent?
~~- Cycle year
~~- Seeking re-election?
~~- Other office sought
~~- Other FEC ID
~~- Election year
~~- State
~~- Office
~~- Office district
~~- Term class (senators only)
~~- Candidate status
~~- Total expenditures made for candidate
~~- Total supporting expenditures made for candidate
~~- Total opposing expenditures made for candidate
~~- Total receipts
~~- Total contributions reported
~~- Total disbursements reported
~~- Cash on hand
~~- Cash on hand date
~~- District
~~- Outstanding loans
~- Committee
~~- FEC ID
~~- Name
~~- Total receipts
~~- Total disbursements
~~- Outstanding loans
~~- Cash on hand
~~- Cash on hand date
~~- CTYPE (FEC-defined)
~~- Candidate office for supported candidates
~~- Candidate name
~~- Candidate URL
~~- Display type
~~- Committee URL
~~- Political orientation
~- Outside spender
~~- FEC ID
~~- Name
~~- Total receipts
~~- Total disbursements
~~- Outstanding loans
~~- CTYPE (FEC-defined)
~~- Total independent expenditures
~~- Expenditures for Dems support
~~- Expenditures for Dems opposition
~~- Expenditures for Reps support
~~- Expenditures for Reps opposition
~~- Political orientation
~~- Political orientation verified?
~~- Display type
~~- Committee URL
~~- Get filtered IE
~~- Display cash on hand
~~- Display cash on hand date
~~- Major activity

==Politifact API==
Link: http://static.politifact.com/api/doc.html

Not really campaign-finance related, but included here as an example of good API documentation.

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