SEC EDGAR Scraper — Filings, Full-Text RAG & XBRL Financials

Extract everything from SEC EDGAR in one Actor: company filings metadata, EDGAR full-text search, section-parsed RAG-ready full text (Item 1A Risk Factors, Item 7 MD&A, …), and XBRL financial facts — with no API key required.

At a glance

Field	Details
Source	Official U.S. SEC EDGAR public data
Authentication	No API key required
Coverage	U.S. public company and registrant filings, metadata, full text, and XBRL facts
Best for	SEC filings scraper, 10-K/10-Q full text extraction, financial facts API, investment research, compliance monitoring, financial RAG datasets
Pricing	$0.001 metadata/search item, $0.005 full-text document, $0.0002 XBRL fact

Features

Feature	Description
📁 Filings metadata	All form types (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, DEF 14A, Form 4, 13F, …) for any company, with document & exhibit links
🔎 Full-text search	EDGAR full-text search (EFTS) across all filings since 2001 — phrases, form filters, date ranges
🧠 RAG-ready full text	Full document text, parsed into Item sections and chunked for embeddings — feed it straight into your vector DB
💰 XBRL financials	Structured financial facts (Revenues, NetIncomeLoss, EPS, Assets, …) with fiscal period metadata
🏷️ Smart company lookup	Search by ticker, CIK, or company name — automatic CIK resolution
⏱️ SEC-compliant rate limiting	Global throttle keeps requests safely under the SEC's 10 req/s limit

Quick Start

Get Apple's latest annual and quarterly reports as RAG-ready chunks:

{
    "mode": "fulltext",
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "formTypes": ["10-K", "10-Q"],
    "dateFrom": "2024-01-01",
    "chunking": "paragraph",
    "maxItems": 5
}

Modes

Mode	What you get	Charged per
filings	Filing metadata records for a company	item
fulltext	Full document text + Item sections + chunks	document
search	EDGAR full-text search hits	item
facts	XBRL financial fact rows	fact

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
mode	string	yes	filings	filings | fulltext | search | facts
ticker	string	one of ticker/cik/companyName¹	—	Stock ticker, e.g. AAPL
cik	string	¹	—	SEC Central Index Key, e.g. 320193
companyName	string	¹	—	SEC registrant name (exact or partial)
query	string	search mode	—	Full-text search expression; quote phrases: "supply chain disruption"
formTypes	array	no	all	Form types to include, e.g. ["10-K", "10-Q"]
dateFrom / dateTo	string	no	—	Filing date range (YYYY-MM-DD)
chunking	string	no	section	section | paragraph (~2000 chars, best for embeddings) | none
includeExhibits	boolean	no	false	Filings mode: list each filing's exhibit files
factTags	array	no	all	Facts mode: restrict to XBRL tags, e.g. ["Revenues", "NetIncomeLoss"]
dedupeFacts	boolean	no	true	Facts mode: collapse prior-period comparatives re-reported by later filings into one row per period & value
maxItems	integer	no	100	Maximum items to save

¹ filings, fulltext and facts modes require a company; fulltext can alternatively run from a query.

Output

Example: fulltext item

{
    "itemType": "filing-fulltext",
    "title": "Apple Inc. — 10-K 2025-10-31",
    "company": "Apple Inc.",
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "cik": "0000320193",
    "formType": "10-K",
    "filedAt": "2025-10-31",
    "accessionNo": "0000320193-25-000123",
    "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/...",
    "sections": [
        { "name": "Item 1A — Risk Factors", "charCount": 38241 },
        { "name": "Item 7 — Management's Discussion and Analysis", "charCount": 21077 }
    ],
    "chunks": [
        { "text": "The Company's business, reputation, results of operations...", "section": "Item 1A — Risk Factors", "order": 12 }
    ],
    "textLength": 220151
}

Example: facts item

{
    "itemType": "fact",
    "company": "Apple Inc.",
    "taxonomy": "us-gaap",
    "tag": "RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax",
    "unit": "USD",
    "value": 111184000000,
    "start": "2025-12-28",
    "end": "2026-03-28",
    "fiscalYear": 2026,
    "fiscalPeriod": "Q2",
    "form": "10-Q"
}

Recipes

1. Build a RAG knowledge base from SEC filings

Pull two years of 10-K/10-Q full text for your watchlist, chunked for embeddings. Each chunk carries its Item section, so you can filter retrieval to Risk Factors or MD&A only.

{
    "mode": "fulltext",
    "ticker": "NVDA",
    "formTypes": ["10-K", "10-Q"],
    "dateFrom": "2024-01-01",
    "chunking": "paragraph",
    "maxItems": 12
}

2. Monitor risk-factor language across an industry

Full-text search for a phrase in recent annual reports — who is talking about it, and since when?

{
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "\"supply chain disruption\"",
    "formTypes": ["10-K"],
    "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
    "maxItems": 200
}

3. Time-series financials without parsing a single PDF

Quarterly revenue, net income and diluted EPS as clean rows, ready for a spreadsheet or BI tool:

{
    "mode": "facts",
    "ticker": "MSFT",
    "factTags": ["RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax", "NetIncomeLoss", "EarningsPerShareDiluted"],
    "dateFrom": "2023-01-01",
    "maxItems": 500
}

4. Track insider activity and ownership filings

{
    "mode": "filings",
    "ticker": "TSLA",
    "formTypes": ["Form 4", "SC 13D", "SC 13G"],
    "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
    "maxItems": 100
}

Pricing

Pay-per-event — you only pay for what gets saved:

Event	Price
Filing metadata / search hit	$0.001 per item
Full-text document (sections + chunks)	$0.005 per document
XBRL financial fact	$0.0002 per fact

Example: a RAG corpus of 50 full 10-K documents costs $0.25. A 1,000-row financial time series costs $0.20.

FAQ

Do I need an SEC API key?

No. SEC EDGAR is a free public data source. The Actor identifies itself with a compliant User-Agent and stays under the SEC's rate limit automatically.

How far back does full-text search go?

EDGAR full-text search covers filings from 2001-05-04 onward. Filing metadata and XBRL facts go back much further (metadata to 1994).

Why are some filings skipped in fulltext mode?

Forms whose primary document is not HTML (e.g. XBRL-only Form 4 XML) can't be section-parsed and are skipped — you are not charged for them.

Why did facts mode return the same period twice (with dedupeFacts: false)?

XBRL filings restate prior-period comparatives — a Q2 10-Q also reports last year's Q2 column. With deduplication off you get one row per filing that reported the fact (accessionNo/filed tell you which one); with the default on, only the original disclosure is kept.

Which chunking should I use for embeddings?

paragraph produces ~2000-character chunks aligned to paragraph boundaries with section attribution — ideal for most embedding models. Use section if you want one chunk per Item section.

Legal & Compliance

This Actor accesses only public data published by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which mandates open access to EDGAR. Requests are rate-limited below SEC's published threshold (10 req/s) and carry an identifying User-Agent, per SEC developer guidelines. No personal data is collected.