get_top20_candidate_of_FinancialCategory: Get Top 20 Candidates in Specific Financial Category

In ProPublicaR: Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

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
)

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.

Value

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

Examples

## Not run: 
get_top20_candidate_of_FinancialCategory('pac-total', 2016)

## End(Not run)

ProPublicaR documentation built on Sept. 8, 2023, 5:53 p.m.