FECo3

A Rust library for parsing .FEC files.

This crate holds the core parsing logic. It is intended to be extended.

For example, we have Python bindings. You could add a bindings for other languages if you wanted, or you could customize the parsing at the rust level, for example adding a new input reader or output writer.

Documentation is available at docs.rs/feco3.

Rust Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
feco3 = "VERSION"

Then:

fn main() {
    let fec = feco3::FecFile::from_path("path/to/file.fec")
    println!("{:?}", fec);
}

lib.rs:

FECo3 is a library for parsing .fec files from the US Federal Election Commission.

.fec files are binary files that contain campaign finance data. This library provides an efficient, flexible, stream-oriented parser for these files.

The parser takes a byte stream as input, which makes it flexible enough to parse files from a variety of sources, including local files, HTTP streams, or a custom source.

FECo3 includes a framework for writing the parsed data. Currently, writing to a directory of .csvs or .parquet files are built in, but the framework is designed to be extensible to other formats.

There are bindings for python available on the repo.