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get_recently_candidates

Get Top 20 Candidates in Specific Financial Category HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/campaign-finance/v1/cycle/candidates/new (https://www.propublica.org/datastore/apis)

Description

Get Top 20 Candidates in Specific Financial Category

HTTP Request: GET https://api.propublica.org/campaign-finance/v1/cycle/candidates/new (https://www.propublica.org/datastore/apis)

Usage

get_recently_candidates(cycle = 2018, page = 1, myAPI_Key)

Arguments

`cycle`	The election cycle: Four-digit even-numbered year between 2010 and 2018
`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 the most recently added FEC candidates for a given campaign cycle from the campaign-finance API from ProPublica.

Examples

get_recently_candidates(2016)

ProPublicaR

Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

v1.1.1

GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Authors

Aleksander Dietrichson [aut, cre], Joselina Davit [aut]

Initial release