# SEC EDGAR Scraper — Filings, Financials & Full-Text Search (`actorworks/sec-edgar-scraper`) Actor

SEC filings, XBRL financial fundamentals (revenue, net income, assets, EPS by fiscal period), and full-text search across all EDGAR filings — from the SEC’s official public APIs. Tickers or CIKs in, clean JSON out.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/actorworks/sec-edgar-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Adam C](https://apify.com/actorworks) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, News, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## SEC EDGAR Scraper — Filings, Financials & Full-Text Search

**Every US public company's filings and financial fundamentals as clean JSON, from the SEC's own official APIs.** Give it tickers; get back filing histories with direct document links, a per-fiscal-period financials table extracted from XBRL (revenue, net income, assets, EPS…), and full-text search hits across the entire EDGAR corpus.

| Type | Company | Form | FY | Period | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| filing | Apple Inc. | 10-K | — | — | 2025-11-01 |
| fundamentals | Apple Inc. | 10-K | 2025 | FY | revenue, netIncome, EPS… |
| search-hit | 2,400 companies | 10-K | — | — | "supply chain disruption" |

### Why this scraper

- ✅ **Official SEC APIs only** (data.sec.gov, efts.sec.gov) — authoritative, free, no scraping fragility
- ✅ **The XBRL killer feature**: `includeFundamentals` converts raw companyfacts (500+ accounting concepts) into a clean financials table — one row per fiscal period with revenue, net income, gross profit, operating income, assets, liabilities, equity, operating cash flow, and EPS, with multi-tag fallbacks because companies report under different concept names
- ✅ **Full-text search across all of EDGAR** — find every filing mentioning any phrase, filtered by form type
- ✅ **Ticker in, data out** — automatic ticker→CIK resolution
- ✅ **Fair-access compliant** — declared user agent, paced requests, per SEC policy

### Input

```json
{
  "companies": ["AAPL", "TSLA", "0000320193"],
  "forms": ["10-K", "10-Q", "8-K"],
  "includeFundamentals": true,
  "searchQueries": ["artificial intelligence risk"]
}
```

### Use cases

- **Fundamental datasets** — quarterly/annual financials for any set of companies without a Bloomberg terminal
- **Filing monitors** — schedule daily, diff for new 8-Ks/10-Qs across a watchlist
- **Research & LLM pipelines** — full-text discovery ("which issuers mention X?") with direct document URLs for retrieval
- **Compliance & competitive intelligence** — track competitors' disclosures the day they land

### Pricing

**$0.001 per filing/search-hit, $0.002 per fundamentals row**, plus a fractional start fee. A 50-company watchlist with full 100-filing histories and complete fundamentals ≈ **$15 once**, then pennies per daily incremental run. Cheaper on paid plans.

### Scope & data ethics

Company-level data only: **insider ownership forms (3, 4, 5) are excluded by design** — this actor is about companies, not individuals. All data is published by the SEC for public use.

### FAQ

**Which companies are covered?** Everything in EDGAR — every US-listed company and foreign private issuer (20-F supported).

**How current is it?** Live — filings appear here as EDGAR publishes them.

**Why do some fundamentals cells come back empty?** Companies tag concepts differently; the extractor tries multiple concept names per metric, but a company that doesn't report a concept has nothing to extract — you get honest nulls, not guesses.

**Historical depth?** Fundamentals typically reach back to ~2009 (XBRL mandate); filings lists cover the company's full recent EDGAR history.

### More data actors from ActorWorks

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- [Ashby](https://apify.com/actorworks/ashby-jobs-scraper) · [Lever](https://apify.com/actorworks/lever-jobs-scraper) · [SmartRecruiters](https://apify.com/actorworks/smartrecruiters-jobs-scraper) — single-vendor versions
- [Remote Jobs Scraper](https://apify.com/actorworks/remote-jobs-aggregator) — six remote-job boards in one feed

*Not affiliated with the SEC. Not investment advice — this is a data-access tool.*

# Actor input Schema

## `companies` (type: `array`):

Tickers (AAPL, MSFT) or CIK numbers.

## `includeFilings` (type: `boolean`):

Include the company filings list (form type, filing date, direct document URL).

## `includeFundamentals` (type: `boolean`):

One row per fiscal period: revenue, net income, gross profit, assets, liabilities, equity, cash flow, EPS.

## `forms` (type: `array`):

Optional: only these form types (e.g. 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K). Insider forms 3/4/5 are always excluded.

## `maxFilingsPerCompany` (type: `integer`):

Cap on filings returned per company.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Optional: search phrases across all EDGAR filings (e.g. "supply chain disruption").

## `maxHitsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Cap on full-text search hits returned per query (SEC returns one page).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "AAPL",
    "TSLA"
  ],
  "includeFilings": true,
  "includeFundamentals": true,
  "forms": [],
  "maxFilingsPerCompany": 100,
  "searchQueries": [],
  "maxHitsPerQuery": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `records` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companies": [
        "AAPL",
        "TSLA"
    ],
    "forms": [],
    "searchQueries": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("actorworks/sec-edgar-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "companies": [
        "AAPL",
        "TSLA",
    ],
    "forms": [],
    "searchQueries": [],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("actorworks/sec-edgar-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companies": [
    "AAPL",
    "TSLA"
  ],
  "forms": [],
  "searchQueries": []
}' |
apify call actorworks/sec-edgar-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,actorworks/sec-edgar-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/dI17v5YhV7uRIch40/builds/lZh3an6lMW9HyxsGj/openapi.json