SEC EDGAR full-text search
Pricing
Pay per usage
Keyless full-text search across SEC EDGAR filings via the official SEC EFTS API. Citation-ready results: company, CIK, form, filing date, accession, document URL, score. Public SEC data only - no credentials, proxies, API keys, LLMs. Stateless, not a tracker. Free when nothing matches.
Search query
query
Required
The full-text query this run searched for (e.g. "material weakness").
Company
company
Required
Company name as published in the EFTS record (display_names).
SEC CIK
cik
Required
SEC Central Index Key of the company (zero-padded to 10 digits).
Form type
form
Required
SEC form type of the matching filing (e.g. 10-K, 10-K/A, 10-Q, 8-K).
Filing date
filingDate
Required
Date the filing was submitted to EDGAR (YYYY-MM-DD).
Accession number
accession
Required
SEC accession number of the filing (e.g. 0001654954-20-005725).
Document
document
Optional
Primary document file name within the filing (parsed from the EFTS hit id).
Document URL
documentUrl
Required
Direct URL of the SEC Archives filing document the match was found in.
Relevance score
score
Optional
EFTS relevance score for the match (higher = better match).
Matching excerpt
excerpt
Optional
The EFTS search-index endpoint returns relevance scores, not highlighted excerpts. Open documentUrl to locate the matching text in the source filing.
Retrieved at
retrievedAt
Required
UTC timestamp when the item was produced (ISO 8601).
