The purpose of the following code is to filter out information regarding contributions made by people to certain candidates.
Download the datasets neccesary for the desired information at: https://www.fec.gov/data/browse-data/?tab=bulk-data
Download the zip file for Candidate Master, Candidate-Committee Linkage, Committee Master, and Contribution by individuals from 2001-2002, 2003-2004, ... 2019-2020. I reccommend following the file path from FECdata/Datasets/(All dataset folder from 01 to 18)
Since the files are in jupyter notebook format, look at this link to see how to run it as a py file from terminal or the command line
Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35545402/how-to-run-an-ipynb-jupyter-notebook-from-terminal