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The entire US government
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15 federal datasets — SEC filings, FEC campaign finance, NOAA weather, Census, energy, crime, health, and more. Query it all with Python — no ETL, no data engineering, no infrastructure.

python3
# Who funded the 2024 Senate campaigns?
import askamerica
askamerica.configure(api_key="aa_free_...")
df = askamerica.query("""
  SELECT candidate_name, SUM(contribution_receipt_amount) AS total
  FROM fec.contributions
  WHERE election_year = 2024 AND office = 'S'
  GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC LIMIT 10
""")
print(df)
candidate_name total 0 Jon Tester $12.4M 1 Ted Cruz $9.8M 2 Sherrod Brown $9.1M ... ...
pip install askamerica
Returns a pandas DataFrame

Every major federal
data source, unified

Updated daily from primary government sources. No API keys per dataset — one AskAmerica key accesses everything.

🏦
SEC Filings (EDGAR)
10-K, 10-Q, 8-K filings, XBRL financials, insider transactions, institutional holdings. Updated daily.
sec.*
🗳️
FEC Campaign Finance
Every contribution and expenditure reported to the FEC. Candidates, committees, and PACs.
fec.*
🌦️
NOAA Weather (GHCND)
Daily weather observations from 100,000+ stations worldwide. Temperature, precipitation, snow.
weather.*
📊
Census ACS
American Community Survey 5-year estimates — population, income, housing, demographics at every geography.
census.*
📈
Economic Indicators
BLS unemployment and CPI, BEA GDP and PCE, Federal Reserve interest rates. Monthly updates.
econ.*
🔵
Federal Register
All federal rules, proposed rules, and notices. Full text, agency metadata, and CFR citations. Daily.
fedregister.*
🔒
CVE Vulnerabilities (NVD)
NIST National Vulnerability Database — CVE records, CVSS scores, and CPE matches. Updated daily.
cyber_vuln.*
⚠️
CISA Known Exploits
CISA's catalog of actively exploited vulnerabilities with remediation due dates. Weekly updates.
cyber_threat.*
EIA Energy Data
Electricity generation, natural gas, petroleum, and coal by state and fuel type. Monthly.
energy.*
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Health (CDC / CMS)
CDC Wonder, CMS Open Payments, and ClinicalTrials.gov data in one schema. Monthly updates.
health.*
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Education (NCES)
IPEDS college data and Common Core of Data K-12 school statistics. Annual updates.
edu.*
🚨
FBI Crime Statistics
UCR and NIBRS offense data by agency and state. Property crime, violent crime, and more.
crime.*
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Geographic Boundaries
Census TIGER/Line boundaries and FIPS codes for states, counties, tracts, places, and CBSAs.
geo.*
📋
Reference Tables
NAICS/SIC codes, state lookups, country codes — shared dimensions for joining across schemas.
ref.*
🔤
Econ Reference
BLS area, industry, and occupation classification tables for joining with economic series data.
econ_reference.*

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One pip install.

AskAmerica handles ingestion, formatting, and serving. You write SQL.

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pip install askamerica
Python 3.8+. Installs DuckDB under the hood — no Spark, no Hadoop.
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Query any dataset with standard SQL. Results come back as a pandas DataFrame.
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