SEC Filing Watchlist — 10-K, 10-Q & 8-K Monitor

Turn a company watchlist into a structured feed of SEC filings. Find recent annual, quarterly and current reports, or collect newly observed filings on repeat runs. Each result includes the company, form, filing date, acceptance time and links to the original SEC document.

Use it to maintain a research queue, update a company dashboard, or send filing records into your own automation. The source is official SEC EDGAR. You do not need a SEC API key or proxy configuration.

At a glance	What you get
Companies	Up to 20 ticker or CIK entries per run
Forms	10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and their /A amendments
Modes	Recent filing snapshot or persistent watch for unseen accessions
Output	Structured Dataset, official document links, JSON / CSV / Excel export
Price	$1 per 1,000 delivered filing rows + Apify resources. No startup fee.
Coverage	SEC's recent submissions feed; observed coverage is reported per company

Get your first filings

1. Open Input and paste the JSON below, or edit the form.
2. Replace AAPL and MSFT with your tickers. Numeric CIKs must be strings, for example "0000789019".
3. Start the run and open Dataset → Filings. Use Export for JSON, CSV or Excel.

{
  "mode": "snapshot",
  "companies": ["AAPL", "MSFT"],
  "forms": ["10-K", "10-Q", "8-K"],
  "includeAmendments": true,
  "lookbackDays": 90,
  "maxResults": 5,
  "maxCostUsd": 0.005
}

This returns up to five matching filings across the whole watchlist, newest acceptance time first. The result fee is at most $0.005, plus resources. Fewer matches mean fewer paid rows; a valid scan with no matches returns an empty Dataset.

Open SUMMARY for delivered counts, source coverage and truncation. Open ERRORS if a company was missing or the scan was partial. These records are linked in the run's Output.

What a result looks like

Excerpt from an actual verified result. This is a historical example; your run returns the records available in the selected date window. Other output fields are omitted here for readability.

{
  "eventId": "0000789019:0001193125-26-436149",
  "cik": "0000789019",
  "companyName": "MICROSOFT CORP",
  "tickers": ["MSFT"],
  "form": "8-K",
  "isAmendment": false,
  "accessionNumber": "0001193125-26-436149",
  "filingDate": "2026-10-28",
  "reportDate": "2026-10-28",
  "acceptedAt": "2026-10-28T20:11:03+00:00",
  "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119312526436149/msft-20261028.htm",
  "items": "8.01,9.01",
  "source": "SEC EDGAR",
  "documentContentFetched": false
}

eventId identifies the filing as CIK:accession. Use it as your downstream deduplication key. documentUrl opens the primary document; filingIndexUrl in the full result opens its filing index. The Actor collects metadata and links; it does not download or parse document text.

Choose snapshot or watch

	snapshot	watch
Use it for	Getting a current list of matching recent filings	Collecting unseen filings across repeated runs
First successful scan	Returns matching rows up to the limit	Creates a baseline for each successful company; no historical rows
Unchanged repeat	Can return the same filings again	Returns zero rows with NO_NEW_FILINGS
Order	Newest accepted filing first	Oldest unseen filing first, to drain a backlog
Saved state	None	Your named Key-value store
Result billing	Each delivered row, including snapshot repeats	Each delivered unseen filing; baseline and empty repeats have no result fee

Set up a watchlist

1. Choose watch and enter the companies and forms you want to track.
2. Set your own unique stateStoreName, starting with sec-watch-. Replace the example name below.
3. Run once. BASELINE_CREATED with an empty Dataset is the expected first result: existing matching filings were recorded as the starting point.
4. Run again with the same name and filter settings. Newly observed matching accessions are returned; an unchanged source produces NO_NEW_FILINGS.

{
  "mode": "watch",
  "companies": ["AAPL", "MSFT"],
  "forms": ["10-K", "10-Q", "8-K"],
  "includeAmendments": true,
  "lookbackDays": 90,
  "stateStoreName": "sec-watch-my-company-filings",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "maxCostUsd": 0.02
}

The named store belongs to the account running the Actor. Run one job at a time for that store. You can start runs manually or configure your own Apify schedule or integration; this Actor does not create a schedule or send notifications itself.

Keep the companies, forms, amendments and date-window settings unchanged for an existing watch. To change them, choose a new store name and establish a new baseline. You can change maxResults and maxCostUsd without resetting the watch.

If a result limit stops a backlog partway through, only delivered filings are marked as seen. Remaining filings can be delivered on the next run while they are still in the source and selected date window. A company that initially failed gets its baseline on its first successful scan; its old filings are not treated as newly detected events.

Example: annual reports for one company

Use a CIK to identify the company directly, select 10-K, and disable amendments if you want only original filings.

{
  "mode": "snapshot",
  "companies": ["0000789019"],
  "forms": ["10-K"],
  "includeAmendments": false,
  "lookbackDays": 365,
  "maxResults": 3,
  "maxCostUsd": 0.003
}

Form guide: 10-K is an annual report, 10-Q a quarterly report, and 8-K a current report about company events or information. /A marks an amendment. See the SEC's guide to researching filings. Select the base form in forms; use includeAmendments to control its /A variants.

Pricing and spending limits

$0.001 per delivered filing row ($1 / 1,000), at every plan tier. No startup event. Apify resources are billed separately. A filing and an amendment with separate accession numbers are separate results. There is no additional result fee for company lookup or saving watch history.

Outcome	Filing result fee
5 delivered rows	$0.005
100 delivered rows	$0.10
First watch baseline	$0
Watch repeat with no unseen filings	$0
Empty result or error-only run	$0

The zero-result outcomes still consume platform resources. Snapshot repeats can return and charge the same filings again; use watch for persistent accession tracking.

• maxResults caps delivered rows across the entire run.
• maxCostUsd caps filing result fees only. For example, 0.005 allows at most five rows at the current price. A value below 0.001 allows no rows; 0 skips processing.
• A lower Apify event-charge limit can reduce delivery further. Neither input caps compute, storage or other platform costs; use your account's platform controls for those costs.

The underlying SEC information is free to access. You pay for the Actor's collection, filtering and watch processing. The Actor's Pricing tab shows the current tariff.

Run through the API

Set APIFY_TOKEN in your own environment. Keep it in the authorization header, not the URL. This starts an asynchronous run with a $0.005 platform event-charge cap:

curl --request POST \
  'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apivault_labs~sec-filing-watchlist/runs?maxTotalChargeUsd=0.005' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ${APIFY_TOKEN}" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"mode":"snapshot","companies":["AAPL","MSFT"],"lookbackDays":90,"maxResults":5,"maxCostUsd":0.005}'

The response contains data.id, data.defaultDatasetId and data.defaultKeyValueStoreId. Use these values in place of the uppercase placeholders below. Check the run until it finishes; a successful HTTP response to the start request does not mean the scan has completed.

# Check run status; wait for completion before exporting.
curl 'https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-runs/RUN_ID' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ${APIFY_TOKEN}"

# Read the delivered rows. Use format=csv or format=xlsx for other exports.
curl 'https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/DATASET_ID/items?format=json' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ${APIFY_TOKEN}"

# Inspect coverage, limits and watch status.
curl 'https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/STORE_ID/records/SUMMARY' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer ${APIFY_TOKEN}"

For a failed or partial run, also read ERRORS from the same store. Before forwarding results to a spreadsheet, database or your own alert workflow, deduplicate by eventId.

Input reference

Field	Default	Accepted values and behavior
mode	snapshot	snapshot or watch
companies	["AAPL", "MSFT"]	1–20 ticker or numeric CIK strings. Aliases resolving to the same CIK are queried once
forms	["10-K", "10-Q", "8-K"]	Nonempty selection of these base forms
includeAmendments	true	Include /A variants of the selected forms
lookbackDays	90	1–365 calendar days, inclusive of the end date
sinceDate	Derived from lookback	Optional YYYY-MM-DD, inclusive. Overrides the lookback-derived start
untilDate	Today in UTC	Optional YYYY-MM-DD, inclusive; cannot be in the future. The requested span is at most 365 days
maxResults	20	Integer 0–1000, global delivered-row limit; 0 skips processing
maxCostUsd	No input fee cap	Optional nonnegative number in USD, at most 1000; caps result fees, not resources
stateStoreName	None	Required for watch; omit in snapshot. sec-watch- followed by 3–61 lowercase letters, digits or hyphens, starting with a letter/digit

Date filters use the SEC-reported filingDate, not acceptedAt or reportDate. Explicit dates can select a past interval, but the Actor still only searches records present in the recent submissions response.

Output reference

One Dataset row represents one filing. The Filings view shows the main fields; Full provenance exposes the complete record.

Fields	Meaning
eventId, cik, accessionNumber	Stable CIK:accession key, zero-padded company CIK and SEC submission identifier
companyName, tickers	Current company metadata supplied by SEC
form, baseForm, isAmendment	Actual form, base form without /A, amendment flag
filingDate	SEC-reported filing date; used for filtering
reportDate	Reporting period date, or null if not supplied
acceptedAt, fetchedAt	SEC acceptance time and Actor retrieval time, both UTC
primaryDocument, documentUrl, filingIndexUrl	Source document path and official document/index links
primaryDocumentDescription, items	SEC description and item string, nullable; items is not a parsed array
source, sourceUrl	Source attribution and reference link
documentContentFetched	Always false: document content is not collected

SUMMARY reports delivered/matching counts, truncation, requests and per-company observed coverage. Watch adds baseline CIKs, watch-history store ID and the number of previously observed filings. ERRORS contains diagnostics rather than paid result rows.

Empty results and troubleshooting

Find the summary status in SUMMARY; detailed source/input codes may appear in ERRORS.

Status or code	Meaning and next step
COMPLETE	Matching results were delivered without reported omissions
BASELINE_CREATED	Expected first successful watch scan. Keep the same store/settings and run again later
NO_NEW_FILINGS	No unseen filings in the successful scan's source/date window. An empty Dataset is expected
NO_MATCHES	Snapshot had no matching filings. Check company, forms and date range
LIMIT_REACHED	A row or result-fee cap stopped delivery. Inspect truncated and your limits
PARTIAL	Some companies/rows could not be processed. Inspect ERRORS and company coverage before treating the scan as complete
UNKNOWN_TICKER	The official ticker directory did not resolve the ticker. Check the symbol or use the company's CIK
CHECKPOINT_SCOPE_MISMATCH	Existing watch settings differ. Restore them or choose a new store name for a fresh baseline
NO_COMPANY_DATA	No company could be processed. Inspect the underlying codes in ERRORS; an invalid CIK or SEC failure can cause this
SEC_HTTP_403 / SEC_HTTP_429	SEC rejected or limited access. This scan stops further processing; check the error and try again later
CHECKPOINT_CAPACITY_EXCEEDED	The 50,000-ID state limit would be exceeded. Establish a new baseline in a new store

Coverage and reliable use

Results cover recent SEC filings available for your selected companies and dates. Each company's summary shows the observed date range and any missing or unavailable results. A 365-day filter does not guarantee a complete year of filings. A full historical archive is outside this product's coverage.

Document links point to official filings. SEC corrections, removals and access restrictions can affect their availability. Amendments are separate filings; the Actor does not identify their original filing or notify you about edits or deletions within an already observed accession.

Run watches frequently enough for your chosen date window. Filings that leave the available records or selected window between runs can be missed. Use one run at a time for each watch-history store and deduplicate by eventId in your own workflow. An interrupted run may return some filings again on the next attempt. Each watch history supports up to 50,000 filing IDs; at that limit, choose a new store name and create a fresh baseline.

Avoid overlapping jobs. Access may be limited temporarily by SEC; a rejected scan reports the error and stops further processing. Partial results and interruptions are explained in SUMMARY and ERRORS.

This product returns filing metadata and links. Full report text, extracted financial statements, Form 4 transactions, keyword search and trading signals are outside its scope. It does not create schedules or send notifications. There is no SEC affiliation or guaranteed publication-to-detection delay. See SEC's reuse guidance and access guidance for the underlying public service.