This Choreo retrieves a specific Political Action Committee's electronic filings. The Choreo makes an HTTP request to the NYTimes Campaign Finance Service, which is described at http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/campaign_finance_api#h3-committee-filings.
Here's an example of acceptable inputs:
APIKey: {YOUR API KEY}
CampaignCycle: 2012
CommitteeFECID: C00341396
The following is a sample of the JSON information returned by this Choreo:
{
"results": [
{
"date_filed": "2012-05-25",
"date_coverage_to": null,
"original_uri": null,
"paper": false,
"report_title": "24 HOUR NOTICE",
"is_amendment": null,
"date_coverage_from": null,
"amended_uri": null,
"amended": false,
"id": 786904,
"cycle": 2012,
"original_filing": null,
"form_type": "F24",
"fec_uri": "http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00341396/786904/"
},
{
"date_filed": "2012-05-11",
"date_coverage_to": null,
"original_uri": null,
"paper": false,
"report_title": "24 HOUR NOTICE",
"is_amendment": null,
"date_coverage_from": null,
"amended_uri": null,
"amended": false,
"id": 783014,
"cycle": 2012,
"original_filing": null,
"form_type": "F24",
"fec_uri": "http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00341396/783014/"
},
{
"date_filed": "2012-05-09",
"date_coverage_to": null,
"original_uri": null,
"paper": false,
"report_title": "24 HOUR NOTICE",
"is_amendment": null,
"date_coverage_from": null,
"amended_uri": null,
"amended": false,
"id": 782213,
"cycle": 2012,
"original_filing": null,
"form_type": "F24",
"fec_uri": "http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00341396/782213/"
},
{
"date_filed": "2011-04-07",
"date_coverage_to": null,
"original_uri": null,
"paper": false,
"report_title": "MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENT",
"is_amendment": null,
"date_coverage_from": null,
"amended_uri": null,
"amended": false,
"id": 720867,
"cycle": 2012,
"original_filing": null,
"form_type": "F99",
"fec_uri": "http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00341396/720867/"
}
],
"base_uri": "http://api.nytimes.com/svc/elections/us/v3/finances/2012/",
"copyright": "Copyright (c) 2012 The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.",
"committee": "/committees/C00341396.json",
"status": "OK",
"offset": null
}