SEC EDGAR Scanner — Filings, Insider Trades & Company Facts (US)

A unified SEC EDGAR API scanner. Give it a ticker, company name or CIK and get, in one call: recent SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1…), insider trading transactions (Form 4, Form 3/5), and key company facts (name, CIK, SIC/industry, address, state of incorporation). Built on the official data.sec.gov API — free, no scraping tricks — and shaped into clean JSON for due diligence, financial research and AI agents.

Most EDGAR actors do one slice (filings only, or insider only, or facts only). This one is the unified scanner: filings + insider trades + company facts together, filterable by filing type and date window.

What it does

• CIK lookup from a ticker, company name or CIK number.
• Recent filings — every form (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, SD, 13G…) with type, filing/report dates, and official document + index links.
• Insider trading (Form 3/4/5) — directors' and officers' transactions, toggleable.
• Company facts — SIC code + industry, address, state of incorporation, exchanges, EIN, former names.
• Filters — by filing_types and a window_days date range; max_items cost cap.

Output fields

Field	Meaning
record_type	company_facts, filing, or insider_transaction
company_name, cik, ticker	Company identity (on every row)
form, form_description	Filing form type (e.g. 10-K, 4)
filing_date, report_date	Filing and reporting dates
accession_number	SEC accession id
filing_url, index_url	Official document + filing-index links
sic, industry, state_of_incorporation, address	On the company-facts row

Why this one

• Unified, not a single slice. Filings + insider trades + company facts in one run — competitors return only one of the three.
• Official source. Direct from data.sec.gov (with the SEC-required identifying User-Agent) — no fragile HTML scraping, with cache + retry/backoff.
• Resolves ticker / name / CIK automatically.
• Agent- & n8n-ready. One clean row per filing/fact; usable as an MCP tool or an n8n step.

Input

{
  "query": "AAPL",
  "filing_types": [],
  "window_days": 90,
  "include_insider": true,
  "include_facts": true,
  "max_items": 50
}

Field	Type	Description
query	string	Ticker, company name or CIK (e.g. AAPL, Apple Inc, 320193).
queries	array	Optional list of companies to scan in one run (overrides query).
filing_types	array	Filter by form (e.g. 10-K, 8-K). Empty = all.
window_days	integer	Only filings from the last N days. Default 90.
include_insider	boolean	Include Form 3/4/5 insider transactions. Default true.
include_facts	boolean	Include the company-facts row. Default true.
max_items	integer	Max records returned/charged. Default 50.

Output

Real output rows for AAPL (company facts + an insider Form 4):

{
  "record_type": "company_facts",
  "company_name": "Apple Inc.",
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "sic": "3571",
  "industry": "Electronic Computers",
  "entity_type": "operating",
  "state_of_incorporation": "CA",
  "address": "ONE APPLE PARK WAY, CUPERTINO, CA, 95014",
  "phone": "(408) 996-1010",
  "exchanges": ["Nasdaq"],
  "former_names": ["APPLE INC", "APPLE COMPUTER INC", "APPLE COMPUTER INC/ FA"],
  "ein": "942404110",
  "fiscal_year_end": "0926",
  "source": "SEC EDGAR (data.sec.gov)",
  "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000320193&type=&owner=include&count=40",
  "timestamp": "2026-06-29T10:29:50.359Z",
  "disclaimer": "Data from the official SEC EDGAR system. Informational only, not investment advice."
}

{
  "record_type": "insider_transaction",
  "company_name": "Apple Inc.",
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "form": "4",
  "form_description": "FORM 4",
  "filing_date": "2026-06-17",
  "report_date": "2026-06-15",
  "accession_number": "0001140361-26-025622",
  "is_xbrl": false,
  "size_bytes": 9220,
  "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126025622/xslF345X06/form4.xml",
  "index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126025622/0001140361-26-025622-index.htm",
  "source": "SEC EDGAR (data.sec.gov)",
  "timestamp": "2026-06-29T10:29:50.371Z"
}

Use cases

• Due diligence / KYB — pull a company's filing history, insider activity and registration facts in one call.
• Financial research & RAG — feed clean filing metadata + links into an LLM pipeline.
• Insider-trading monitoring — track Form 4 activity for a watchlist of tickers.
• AI agents / n8n — a single MCP-ready tool that answers "what has this company filed recently?"

Pricing

Pay-per-result: target $0.004 per record (~$3–5 / 1,000), plus Apify platform usage. max_items caps spend.

Categories

Developer tools, Automation, Agents, Business.

Notes & limits

• Covers EDGAR filers (US public companies and registrants). Private companies that never filed with the SEC won't appear.
• Filing arrays cover the company's most recent ~1,000 filings; window_days filters within that.
• Official data, not investment advice — always verify against the original filing via the provided links.

Use as an MCP tool (AI agents)

This Actor is available as an MCP tool for AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) through Apify’s hosted MCP server. Point your MCP client at:

https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=aspiring_barricade/sec-edgar-scanner

The Actor’s input schema becomes the tool’s parameters automatically. An Apify API token is required.

Use in n8n

Run this Actor inside your n8n workflows using the official Apify node (search “Apify” in the n8n nodes panel) and select the Actor aspiring_barricade/sec-edgar-scanner. A dedicated community node (n8n-nodes-sec-edgar-scanner) is also published to npm for one-click installation via n8n → Settings → Community Nodes.