OpenFEC Names API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: OpenFEC Candidate Names API
  description: The OpenFEC API is a RESTful web service from the Federal Election Commission supporting full-text and field-specific searches on FEC data including candidates, committees, filings, financial summaries, and transaction schedules. Data are updated nightly.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Federal Election Commission
    url: https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/
  license:
    name: Public Domain (CC0)
    url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
servers:
- url: https://api.open.fec.gov/v1
  description: Production OpenFEC API
security:
- apiKey: []
tags:
- name: Names
paths:
  /names/candidates/:
    get:
      summary: Candidate name typeahead
      operationId: candidateNames
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Candidate name suggestions.
      tags:
      - Names
  /names/committees/:
    get:
      summary: Committee name typeahead
      operationId: committeeNames
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Committee name suggestions.
      tags:
      - Names
components:
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key
      description: api.data.gov API key. Use DEMO_KEY for limited testing.