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get_top20_candidate_of_FinancialCategory

Get Top 20 Candidates in Specific Financial Category

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

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

`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.

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

get_top20_candidate_of_FinancialCategory('pac-total', 2016)

Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

v1.1.1

GPL-3 | file LICENSE

Authors

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

Initial release