openFEC is an API developed by 18F with the intention of making campaign finance data more accessible to the public. As described by the developers of the project:
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) releases information to the public about
money that's raised and spent in federal elections — that's elections for US President,
Senate, and House of Representatives.
Are you interested in seeing how much money a candidate raised?
Or spent? How much debt they took on? Who contributed to their campaign?
The FEC is the authoritative source for that information.
The new FEC.gov is a collaboration between 18F and the FEC.
It aims to make campaign finance information more accessible (and understandable) to all users.
You can install this package by including this line in your R file:
install_github("robinspollak/R.openFEC")
Then, you can get docs about the package by running
?R.openFEC in your console
This wrapper is incomplete and bound to have bugs! Please open an issue or a pull request if you find any problems or would like any specific extensions. The creators of this project can be reached at jeffrey.carney@pomona.edu and robin@pollak.io