SEC Filing Monitor: Know What A Company Filed, The Day It Files It

Track every SEC filing for the companies you care about — by ticker, CIK or name — with the event spelled out in plain English and a direct link to the document.

An 8-K lands and the raw feed tells you 2.02,9.01. That is a company reporting results, plus exhibits. Nobody should have to memorise the item table to know that.

This Actor reads EDGAR directly, resolves whatever you paste into the right company, and gives you one row per filing with the form named, the items translated, the exact acceptance timestamp, and a link straight to the filing.

Built for investors watching a portfolio, analysts covering a sector, compliance teams tracking their own filings, and anyone who needs to know about a material event before it reaches the news.

How it works

flowchart LR
    A[Your list of companies] --> B{What did they type?}
    B -->|AAPL| C[Ticker lookup]
    B -->|320193| D[Use the CIK directly]
    B -->|Apple Inc.| E[Name lookup]
    C --> F[CIK]
    D --> F
    E --> F
    F --> G[EDGAR submissions API]
    G --> H[Read the parallel arrays<br/>into one row per filing]
    H --> I{Form and date filters}
    I --> J[Translate 8-K item codes<br/>into plain language]
    J --> K[(One row per filing,<br/>newest first)]

Everything comes from the JSON endpoints the SEC publishes itself. No scraping, no API key, no quota. A short one-word name like Tesla or Nvidia looks exactly like a ticker, so when the ticker lookup misses, the name lookup runs before giving up.

What you get

One row per filing:

{
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "name": "Apple Inc.",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "exchange": "Nasdaq",
  "industry": "Electronic Computers",
  "form": "8-K/A",
  "formDescription": "Material event",
  "filingDate": "2026-09-01",
  "reportDate": "2026-08-28",
  "acceptedAt": "2026-09-01T16:31:04.000Z",
  "accessionNumber": "0001140361-26-035325",
  "items": [
    { "code": "5.02", "label": "Departure or appointment of directors and officers" }
  ],
  "itemSummary": "Departure or appointment of directors and officers",
  "indexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126035325/0001140361-26-035325-index.htm",
  "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126035325/ef20081427_8ka.htm",
  "isXbrl": false
}

Plus a RUN_SUMMARY record with counts per form and per company, the newest filings, the material 8-K events, and any company that could not be resolved.

Watching for one kind of event

Set forms to narrow it down. Watching 8-K also returns 8-K/A, so an amended earnings release still reaches you.

You want	Set forms to	Why
Material events as they happen	8-K	Results, executive changes, acquisitions, cyber incidents
Insider buying and selling	4	Every officer and director transaction
Quarterly and annual numbers	10-Q, 10-K	The full financial picture
Someone building a stake	SC 13D, SC 13G	Anyone crossing 5% ownership
An IPO in progress	S-1	Registration and its amendments

Running it on a schedule

Turn on onlyNewFilings and every run returns only what EDGAR has accepted since the last one. Point it at a daily schedule with days set to 2 and you get a clean feed with no repeats.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/arched_friend~sec-filing-monitor/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"companies":["AAPL","NVDA","TSLA"],"forms":["8-K"],"days":2,"onlyNewFilings":true}'

Pricing

Pay per filing returned. A run that finds nothing costs nothing.

	This Actor	Typical filing API	Terminal subscription
Price	$0.004 per filing	$50–$300 / month	$2,000+ / month
Minimum	None, pay per run	Monthly commitment	Annual contract
Free runs	Yes, a run with no new filings is free	No	No
Setup	Paste tickers	API key, docs, integration	Sales call

Related products

• Brand Mention Monitor — track news coverage of the same companies
• Hacker News Brand Monitor — what engineers are saying about them
• Competitor Content Tracker — what they publish on their own blogs

Notes

The SEC asks callers to identify themselves with a contact address, and limits everyone to a published fair-access rate. This Actor throttles itself below that limit and sends a contact string on every request. On heavy runs you can supply your own in userAgent.

EDGAR's submissions endpoint holds roughly the last year of filings inline. Older history lives in separate archive files, so a very long days window returns what the recent file covers.