Overview
Summary	Database of US campaign contributions
Category	Government
Tags	politics government
Date Added	2006-11-02
Description	From their site: Money in state politics plays a pivotal role in shaping public policy in individual states and across the nation. The nonpartisan Institute on Money in State Politics tracks contributions in all 50 states and makes this data easily searchable online…The Institute collects campaign-finance data for state-level candidates, party committees and ballot-measure committees in all 50 states. Each two-year election cycle, data-acquisition specialists compile more than 90,000 disclosure reports from more than 16,000 candidates in the states and process more than 3.2 million records of contribution information.
API Home Page	http://www.followthemoney.org/services/
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Protocol
Protocols	REST
Data Formats	XML
Service Endpoint	http://www.followthemoney.org/api/
Functionality
API Groups	states, candidates, party_pacs, ballot_measures, and contributors
Example API Methods	party_pacs.committees.businesses
Client Install Required	No
Security
Authentication Model	Developer key
SSL Support
Read-only Without Login	No
Support
Vendor API Kits
Community API Kits
API Blog
Site Blog
API Forum
Developer Support	Interactive code generator
Signup and Licensing
Signup Requirements	Developer key
Developer Key Required	Yes
Account with Service Required
Commercial Licensing
Non-Commercial Licensing	Yes
Data Licensing
Usage Fees
Usage Limits
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