Search entities
People and organizations across every source: donors, employers, lobbyists, lobbying clients and firms, members. One entity per real-world person or organization, matched across sources by id where the State flags a donor as a lobbyist or client, otherwise by name (matchConfidence 0.8: people with the same name may be merged). Sorted by money given to members.
GET https://www.chicagopolitics.org/api/v1/entities
Authorizations
| Header | Value |
|---|---|
Authorization | Bearer <key>. Get a key; see authentication. |
Query parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
q | string | Part of the name. | |
kind | string | One of: person, organization. | |
role | string | One of: member, donor, employer, lobbyist, lobby_client, lobby_firm. | |
limit | integer | Default 50. | |
cursor | string | From meta.nextCursor of the previous page. |
Response
200 Entities
Example request
curl "https://www.chicagopolitics.org/api/v1/entities" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CHICAGO_POLITICS_KEY"Errors: 400, 401, 429 (see errors).