SEC EDGAR Scraper

Every SEC filing a company makes — 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statements, insider trades — or a full-text search across all of EDGAR, as clean JSON.

SEC EDGAR is the official record of every US public company: annual and quarterly reports, material events, registration statements, proxy statements and insider transactions. This Actor scrapes SEC EDGAR filings by ticker, CIK or EDGAR URL, or by full-text search of every filing and exhibit since 2001. Each filing comes back with its form type, filing and period dates, acceptance time, 8-K items, accession number, links to the filing index and the main document, and the filer's profile: industry (SIC), state of incorporation, fiscal year end and exchanges. Filter by form type and filing date, and optionally add each company's key annual financials: revenue, operating and net income, diluted EPS, cash flow and balance sheet. Scrape SEC filings with no API key, no login and no proxy. Built for investment research, equity analysts, compliance and legal teams, event-driven trading signals, and anyone feeding filings into an AI or NLP pipeline.

⚡ Quick start

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=320193" }],
  "searchTerms": ["\"artificial intelligence\""],
  "forms": ["10-K", "10-Q", "8-K"],
  "maxItems": 5
}

🧩 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array	no	—	EDGAR pages: a company's filings page (https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=320193, or the classic …/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=…&type=10-K) or a full-text search (https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/q=…).
tickers	array	no	—	Stock tickers, one per line, such as AAPL, MSFT or BRK.B.
ciks	array	no	—	SEC Central Index Keys, one per line, such as 320193. Works for filers without a ticker, funds and individuals.
searchTerms	array	no	—	Words or phrases to find in the text of filings and exhibits, one search per line. Quote a phrase for an exact match ("supply chain disruption"); unquoted words must all appear.
forms	array	no	—	Only return these form types, such as 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, DEF 14A or 4. Amendments are included (10-K also returns 10-K/A).
dateFrom	string	no	—	Only return filings filed on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
dateTo	string	no	—	Only return filings filed on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
includeFinancials	boolean	no	false	Add the company's key annual figures for its last three fiscal years to every row. Adds one request per company.
maxItems	integer	no	—	Maximum number of filings per URL, ticker, CIK or search phrase. The input form starts at 5; leave it empty for every matching filing.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Proxy settings. SEC EDGAR needs no proxy.

Add EDGAR URLs, tickers, CIKs, search phrases, or any mix. The form-type and date filters apply to all of them, except where a URL sets its own: the classic company page's type= and dateb=, or the form and date filters chosen on the EDGAR full-text search page. The easiest way to build a search is to run it on EDGAR full-text search with its filters and paste the address bar; relative ranges such as "last 30 days" are kept.

📤 Output

Each filing is one dataset row, marked by source: company for a company's filing list, search for a full-text search match. Company filings come newest first. Search results come in EDGAR's relevance order; a filing whose main document and exhibits both match is returned once, with the best-matching document in matchedDocumentUrl. Every row carries the filer's profile.

Fields

Field	Type	Description
source	string	company or search.
searchQuery	string	The full-text search that matched the filing. null for company rows.
cik	string	The filer's Central Index Key, ten digits.
ticker	string	The company's ticker (the one you asked for, when it has several share classes).
companyName	string	Filer name.
sic	string	Standard Industrial Classification code.
sicDescription	string	Industry, such as Electronic Computers.
stateOfIncorporation	string	State or country of incorporation.
fiscalYearEnd	string	Fiscal year end as MMDD, such as 0926.
exchanges	array	Exchanges the company's shares trade on.
form	string	Form type, such as 10-K, 8-K or 4.
filingDate	string	Date the filing was filed (YYYY-MM-DD).
reportDate	string	Period the filing reports on, or the event date of an 8-K.
acceptanceDateTime	string	When EDGAR accepted the filing.
accessionNumber	string	The filing's unique accession number.
fileNumber	string	SEC file number.
items	array	8-K items reported, such as 2.02 (results of operations) or 5.02 (officer changes). Empty for other forms.
size	number	Size of the filing in bytes.
isXBRL	boolean	Whether the filing includes XBRL financial data.
isInlineXBRL	boolean	Whether the filing uses inline XBRL.
primaryDocument	string	File name of the main document.
primaryDocDescription	string	Description of the main document.
url	string	The filing's index page on sec.gov, listing every document in it.
documentUrl	string	The main document on sec.gov.
companyUrl	string	The filer's EDGAR page.
matchedDocumentUrl	string	The document that matched a full-text search (the main document or an exhibit). null for company rows.
matchedDocumentType	string	Type of the matched document, such as 8-K or EX-99.1. null for company rows.
financials	array	With includeFinancials: the last three fiscal years, newest first, each with fiscalYear, periodStart, periodEnd, currency, revenue, operatingIncome, netIncome, epsDiluted, operatingCashFlow, assets, liabilities, stockholdersEquity and cash. null when off.

For a search match from an older filing, acceptanceDateTime, size, the XBRL flags and the primary document can be null: they come from the company's recent-filings record.

💡 Use cases

• Event-driven signals — watch 8-K filings for earnings releases (item 2.02), executive changes (5.02) or material agreements (1.01) across a watchlist.
• Investment research — pull every 10-K and 10-Q for a sector, with links straight to the documents and key annual figures alongside.
• Thematic search — find every company that mentions a phrase such as "tariffs", "going concern" or "artificial intelligence" in its filings, and when.
• Compliance and legal — monitor competitors' and counterparties' filings, proxy statements and insider transactions.
• AI and NLP pipelines — feed filing documents into summarisation, sentiment or risk-factor extraction.

❓ FAQ

• Do I need an SEC API key or an account? No. EDGAR is public. The Actor identifies itself to the SEC and stays under the SEC's limit of 10 requests per second, as the SEC's fair-access policy asks.
• Do I need a proxy? No. It runs without one by default.
• How far back does it go? A company's filing list goes back to its first electronic filing (the mid-1990s for most large companies). Full-text search covers filings from 2001 onwards.
• Does full-text search return every match? EDGAR returns up to 10,000 matching documents per search, ranked by relevance. Narrow a broad search with form types and dates.
• Why are some financials missing? The summary reads US GAAP figures from annual reports. Funds, individuals and most foreign filers (who report under IFRS) have none, so their list is empty; a company that does not report one figure gets null for it.
• Can I get the full text of a filing? Each row links to the main document and the filing index. Pair the Actor with a page-content scraper to download the documents' text.
• Why did a run return fewer filings than expected? The filters may be narrower than you think (amendments are included, but 10-K does not match 10-KT), or a ticker may be missing from the SEC's list; the log says when a ticker or CIK is not found. Open an issue if something looks off.

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