ProPublicaR (version 1.1.4)

get_top20_candidate_of_FinancialCategory: Get Top 20 Candidates in Specific Financial Category

Description

https://www.propublica.org/datastore/apis HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/campaign-finance/v1/cycle/candidates/leaders/category

Usage

get_top20_candidate_of_FinancialCategory(
  category,
  cycle = 2018,
  page = 1,
  myAPI_Key
)

Value

List of returned JSON from endpoint that retrieves a specific FEC candidate for a given campaign cycle.

Arguments

category

One of the values from the following categories:'candidate-loan', 'contribution-total', 'debts-owed', 'disbursements-total', 'end-cash', 'individual-total', 'pac-total', 'receipts-total' and 'refund-total'.

cycle

The election cycle

page

Results come in batches of 20. The page parameter specifies which one to retrieve.

myAPI_Key

API key from Propublica To use the congress API, you must sign up for an API key.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
get_top20_candidate_of_FinancialCategory('pac-total', 2016)
}