# SEC EDGAR Filings — 8-K Items Decoded (`alaudinburki/sec-edgar-filings`) Actor

Pull SEC filings for any US-listed company and get the meaning, not just the form code: 8-K items decoded into plain language, material events flagged (bankruptcy, exec change, acquisition, restatement), newest first. Free official SEC data, no key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/alaudinburki/sec-edgar-filings.md
- **Developed by:** [alaudin burki](https://apify.com/alaudinburki) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## SEC EDGAR Filings — 8-K Items Decoded

Pull SEC filings for any US-listed company and get **the meaning, not just the form code**. Every row
says what kind of filing it is, decodes 8-K item codes into plain language, and flags material events —
so `8-K` becomes **`executive_change`**, and `1.03` becomes **`bankruptcy`**.

Free official SEC data (`data.sec.gov`). **No API key, no login, no proxy, no anti-bot.**

### Why this one

EDGAR is free — the friction was never access, it's that a raw filing list is meaningless until you
know that item **5.02** is an executive departure and **4.02** is a restatement. Other scrapers hand you
the form code. This one hands you the answer.

### What you get

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `company` / `ticker` / `cik` | Filer identity (tickers auto-resolved to CIK) |
| `formType` | 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, 4, S-1, SC 13D, 13F… |
| **`signal`** | Plain-language kind: `earnings`, `executive_change`, `acquisition`, `bankruptcy`, `restatement`, `activist_stake`, `ipo_registration`, `insider_transaction`, `annual_report`… |
| **`materialEvent`** | `true` for the filings that actually move a stock or a story |
| **`itemsDecoded`** | Each 8-K item code with its official description |
| `filingDate` / `reportDate` / `ageDays` | When it was filed, the period covered, how old it is |
| `filingUrl` | Direct link to the primary document on SEC.gov |
| `accessionNumber` / `isXBRL` / `sizeBytes` | Filing identifiers and metadata |

### How to use it

1. Add **tickers** (or CIKs) and **your contact email** — the SEC's fair-access policy requires a contact
   address in the request header. It's sent only to the SEC.
2. Optionally filter by **form types** and a **since date**.
3. Tick **Material events only** to get just the filings that matter, then **schedule it** as an alert feed.

### Input

```json
{
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "TSLA"],
  "contactEmail": "you@example.com",
  "formTypes": ["8-K", "10-K", "10-Q"],
  "sinceDate": "2026-01-01",
  "materialEventsOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 5000
}
```

### Sample output

```json
[
  {
    "company": "Apple Inc.",
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "cik": "0000320193",
    "formType": "8-K",
    "signal": "executive_change",
    "materialEvent": true,
    "itemsDecoded": [
      { "code": "5.02", "description": "Departure or election of directors or principal officers" },
      { "code": "9.01", "description": "Financial statements and exhibits" }
    ],
    "items": "5.02,9.01",
    "filingDate": "2026-08-24",
    "reportDate": "2026-08-23",
    "ageDays": 10,
    "accessionNumber": "0000320193-26-000010",
    "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000010/a8k.htm",
    "isXBRL": false,
    "status": "ok"
  }
]
```

### Typical uses

- **Material-event alert feed** — schedule daily with `materialEventsOnly`, wire the webhook, and get
  pinged only on bankruptcies, restatements, exec departures, acquisitions and activist stakes.
- **Earnings calendar** — filter `8-K` + `signal = earnings` across your watchlist.
- **Insider tracking** — `formTypes: ["4"]` for a company's insider transaction filings.
- **Alt-data / research** — a clean, typed filings history to join against price data.
- **Compliance & journalism** — monitor a peer set for delisting risk or auditor changes.

### Pricing

**$1.50 / 1,000 filings** (`$0.0015` per result), plus a near-zero start fee. You are never charged
beyond your `maxItems`, and companies that return nothing are reported in `QUALITY_REPORT`, not billed.

### FAQ & limitations

- **Do I need an API key?** No. EDGAR is free and public. The only requirement is the contact email in
  the header, which is the SEC's own fair-access rule.
- **Why is a contact email required?** SEC blocks traffic without a declared User-Agent. It's sent only
  to sec.gov and is never stored or shared.
- **How far back does it go?** The submissions API returns each company's recent filing history
  (typically the last ~1,000 filings); use `sinceDate` and `maxPerCompany` to scope it.
- **Does it fetch the filing text?** No — it returns the metadata plus a direct `filingUrl`. Pair it with
  the **PDF Text Extractor** actor to pull the document contents.
- **Rate limits?** SEC asks for ≤10 requests/second; this actor paces itself well under that.
- **Non-US companies?** Only filers with a SEC CIK (US-listed, including many foreign issuers via 20-F).

### Related actors

- **PDF Text Extractor** — pull the text out of any filing document you find here.
- **Stock Market Data** — join filings to price and 52-week position.
- **Prediction Markets** — event pricing alongside corporate events.
- **Portfolio Health Monitor** — smoke-test your scheduled actors and alert when one degrades.

# Actor input Schema

## `tickers` (type: `array`):

Stock tickers, e.g. AAPL, TSLA. Resolved to SEC CIKs automatically.

## `ciks` (type: `array`):

SEC CIK numbers, if you already have them. Zero-padding is handled for you.

## `contactEmail` (type: `string`):

The SEC's fair-access policy requires a contact address in the request header. It is sent only to the SEC, never stored or shared.

## `formTypes` (type: `array`):

Filter by form, e.g. 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, 4, S-1, SC 13D. Leave empty for all forms. Prefix match, so "10-" catches 10-K and 10-Q.

## `sinceDate` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD. Leave empty for the company's full recent history.

## `materialEventsOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Return only filings flagged as material — bankruptcy, restatement, executive change, acquisition, earnings, activist stake, delisting risk and similar.

## `maxPerCompany` (type: `integer`):

Caps how far back to read per company.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard limit, strictly enforced. You are never charged beyond this.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "tickers": [
    "AAPL",
    "TSLA"
  ],
  "ciks": [],
  "contactEmail": "you@example.com",
  "formTypes": [
    "8-K",
    "10-K",
    "10-Q"
  ],
  "sinceDate": "2026-01-01",
  "materialEventsOnly": false,
  "maxPerCompany": 100,
  "maxItems": 5000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

The dataset of SEC filings produced by this run.

# 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 = {
    "tickers": [
        "AAPL",
        "TSLA"
    ],
    "contactEmail": "you@example.com",
    "formTypes": [
        "8-K",
        "10-K",
        "10-Q"
    ],
    "sinceDate": "2026-01-01"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("alaudinburki/sec-edgar-filings").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 = {
    "tickers": [
        "AAPL",
        "TSLA",
    ],
    "contactEmail": "you@example.com",
    "formTypes": [
        "8-K",
        "10-K",
        "10-Q",
    ],
    "sinceDate": "2026-01-01",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("alaudinburki/sec-edgar-filings").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 '{
  "tickers": [
    "AAPL",
    "TSLA"
  ],
  "contactEmail": "you@example.com",
  "formTypes": [
    "8-K",
    "10-K",
    "10-Q"
  ],
  "sinceDate": "2026-01-01"
}' |
apify call alaudinburki/sec-edgar-filings --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/XOCsVeuHRqlzLwJCQ/builds/BglhIWaQy80q2BPWh/openapi.json