From the FEC bulk data download at fec.gov/data/browse-data. The committee master file (cm.csv) carries committee identity; the operating expenditures and filings history files carry the financial figures. SleekRank reads both as a joined source on committee ID without paid intermediaries or external APIs.

The FEC refreshes the bulk data nightly during active election cycles and weekly off-cycle. Newly filed quarterly reports appear within a day of submission. Setting cache_duration to 86400 seconds captures the nightly refresh without overfetching during the off-cycle slow periods between major filing deadlines.

{fec-committee-id}-{committee-name-slug} reads well in SERP and stays stable across cycle and rebrand. The FEC committee ID is the canonical eight-character identifier (C00XXXXXX); the name suffix makes the URL meaningful to a human searcher. Drop the name suffix only if the committee ID alone is the searched term.

Yes. The filings history file lists every report a committee has filed with the FEC across all cycles. Render it as a vertical timeline with the most recent filings at the top. Each entry should link to the FEC.gov detail view for that specific filing so users can see the underlying schedule submissions on demand.

The committee_type field distinguishes Independent Expenditure Only (super PACs, cmte_tp=O), Separate Segregated Funds (traditional corporate or labor PACs, cmte_tp=Q), and Principal Campaign Committees (cmte_tp=P or H or S).

When a committee files a termination report, its status field flips to T in the master file. Keep the page published but render a "terminated" banner with the termination date. Historical research depends on terminated-committee pages remaining indexable for years after the last active filing under that committee ID.

Yes. Principal campaign committees are linked to a candidate via the cand_id field in the candidate-committee linkage file. Render the candidate link as a sibling page group at /candidate/{slug}/.

No. FEC jurisdiction covers federal elections only (US Senate, House, presidential, and federal party committees). State and local campaign finance data lives on each state's elections portal with no national bulk standard. A per-state SleekRank page group would need to ingest each state's own format separately.