Quickstart

This guide gets you from no account to your first Quiver API response. You’ll fetch the most recent stock trades disclosed by members of Congress, which the Hobbyist plan and every plan above it include.

Get an API key

Choose a plan on the pricing page and complete checkout. Your API key is then on your dashboard, labelled Authorization Token.Keep the key secret: anyone with it can use your plan. Store it in an environment variable rather than in your code.

export QUIVER_API_KEY="your-api-key"

Make your first request

Send a GET request to /beta/live/congresstrading with your key in the Authorization header.

curl https://api.quiverquant.com/beta/live/congresstrading \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $QUIVER_API_KEY"

import os

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.quiverquant.com/beta/live/congresstrading",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QUIVER_API_KEY']}"},
    timeout=60,
)
response.raise_for_status()
trades = response.json()
print(trades[0])

# pip install quiverquant
import os

import quiverquant

quiver = quiverquant.quiver(os.environ["QUIVER_API_KEY"])
trades = quiver.congress_trading()  # a pandas DataFrame
print(trades.head())

const response = await fetch("https://api.quiverquant.com/beta/live/congresstrading", {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.QUIVER_API_KEY}` },
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Quiver API error: ${response.status}`);
const trades = await response.json();
console.log(trades[0]);

The quiverquant package is Quiver’s official Python client. It returns pandas DataFrames for the most common datasets.

Read the response

The endpoint returns a JSON array of the most recently disclosed trades, newest first: up to 500 from the House and 500 from the Senate. Each record looks like this (some fields omitted):

{
  "Representative": "Maria Elvira Salazar",
  "BioGuideID": "S000168",
  "ReportDate": "2026-11-05",
  "TransactionDate": "2026-10-23",
  "Ticker": "NVDA",
  "Transaction": "Purchase",
  "Range": "$1,001 - $15,000",
  "Amount": "1001.0",
  "House": "Representatives",
  "Party": "R"
}

Field	Meaning
`ReportDate`	When the trade was disclosed. Members of Congress can disclose trades weeks after making them.
`TransactionDate`	When the trade was made.
`Range`	The value range the member disclosed. Disclosures give a range, not an exact amount.
`Amount`	The low end of `Range`, as a number.
`House`	`Representatives` or `Senate`.
`BioGuideID`	The member’s ID in the Congressional Biographical Directory.

The Live Congress Trading reference lists every field.

Filter by ticker

Most datasets also have a per-ticker endpoint. This returns every congressional trade in Apple:

curl https://api.quiverquant.com/beta/historical/congresstrading/AAPL \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $QUIVER_API_KEY"

aapl_trades = quiver.congress_trading("AAPL")

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