Overview
The Daily Insights on Congressional Trading Activity workflow is an essential intelligence tool for investors, researchers, and market observers tracking the intersection of politics and finance. This workflow automates the tedious process of monitoring publicly available trading data of U.S. Congress members. It uses a robust API to retrieve the daily transaction reports and leverages AI to synthesize this complex information into a concise, easy-to-read email summary, ensuring you stay informed on influential financial activities without sifting through official documents.
Who This Is For
- Financial Investors: Automatically receive potential insider trading signals that could influence stock prices, providing valuable reference points for investment decisions and due diligence.
- Financial Journalists and Analysts: Collect newsworthy material and key data points in an automated manner to support in-depth reporting on market trends and the impact of policy on financial markets.
- Academic Researchers: Easily gather structured datasets for studying political economy, market behavior, and the interplay between government and capital markets.
- Compliance and Oversight Bodies: Utilize the workflow as an automated monitoring tool to track legislators’ financial activities for potential conflicts of interest.
How It Works
- API Status Check and Delay
- At the beginning of its execution, the workflow sends a GET request to the Firecrawl API to check the status of the required scraping task.
- Conditional Execution
- If the scraping task is still running, a Code node acts as a delay mechanism, pausing the workflow for 20 seconds before checking the status again in the next iteration.
- Data Processing
- If the scraping task is completed (or marked as failed), the workflow proceeds directly to the LLM node for data processing.
- AI Summarization and Formatting
- The LLM takes the retrieved trading data and condenses the complex information into a concise, easily digestible summary.
- Report Delivery
- The final step uses the authenticated Gmail service to send the summarized report immediately to the specified recipient email address.
What You'll Need
- Firecrawl API Key: You must register for an account and obtain an API Key from the Firecrawl website.
- Gmail Authorization:Your Gmail account must be authorized in the Send Insight Report Email node (using OAuth2) so the workflow can send the daily report on your behalf.
- Recipient Email Address:The target email address where you wish to receive the daily report must be entered in the To field of the Start parameters.
How to Use
- Step 1.Obtain Keys
- Get your Firecrawl API Key and enter it in the APIkey field of the Start node.
- Step 2.Authorize Sending
- Authorize your Gmail account in the Send Insight Report Email node within the loop.
- Step 3.Set Recipient
- Enter the email address where you want the report sent in the To field of the Start parameters.
- Step 4.Schedule Report
- Set up a scheduled trigger (e.g., daily before market open) to automatically monitor and send the report without manual intervention.
