You can access the SEC EDGAR Filing Catalog programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "queries": [
12        {
13            "requestId": "by-accession",
14            "identifierType": "accession",
15            "identifier": "0000320193-18-000113"
16        }
17    ],
18    "maxResults": 1,
19    "maxSourceRequests": 5,
20    "maxDownloadBytes": 1048576
21};
22
23// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
24const run = await client.actor("bb-tradetec/sec-edgar-filing-catalog").call(input);
25
26// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
27console.log('Results from dataset');
28console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
29const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
30items.forEach((item) => {
31    console.dir(item);
32});
33
34// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

SEC EDGAR Filing API – Canonical Filing Metadata API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use SEC EDGAR Filing Catalog API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

SEC EDGAR Filing Catalog API in Python

SEC EDGAR Filing Catalog API through CLI

SEC EDGAR Filing Catalog OpenAPI definition

SEC EDGAR Filing Catalog API

SEC EDGAR Filing Scraper

scraped/edgar-filing-data-scraper-sec-company-filings

Scrapes and extracts recent SEC EDGAR filings for public companies, focusing on financial reports and key documents from the last 30 days

scraped

SEC Regulatory Publication Catalog

bb-tradetec/sec-regulatory-publication-catalog

Find official SEC rules, releases, guidance, enforcement publications, statements, reports, and alerts as canonical records.

SEC Exempt Offering Events

bb-tradetec/sec-exempt-offering-normalizer

Normalize public Form D, Regulation A, and Regulation Crowdfunding notices and reports into evidence-bound events.

SEC EDGAR Filings Extractor

cynix_dev/sec-edgar-filings

Search and extract SEC EDGAR filings: full-text search across all filings or company filing histories by CIK. Clean typed records with direct document URLs. No API key required.

Cynix Dev

SEC Public Offering Events

bb-tradetec/sec-public-offering-normalizer

Normalize SEC registrations, prospectuses, pricing, withdrawals, and communications into evidence-bound offering events.

SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper

exuberant_volley/sec-edgar-filings-scraper

Scrape a company's recent SEC EDGAR filings by ticker or CIK — form type, filing date, accession number and primary document. Filter by form type. Official SEC data, no personal data.

ScrapeForge

SEC Proxy, Governance & Vote Data

bb-tradetec/sec-proxy-governance-and-vote-normalizer

Normalize SEC proxy proposals, issuer vote results, governance facts, and fund proxy votes with direct evidence.

SEC Disclosure Risk Feed

bb-tradetec/sec-disclosure-risk-feed-aggregator

Compose supplied SEC events and changes into deterministic, evidence-linked disclosure attention signals.

SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper & Parser

jweninger16/sec-edgar-filings-scraper

Extract and parse SEC EDGAR filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, 13-F, and more) into clean, structured JSON. Get financial statements, risk factors, and filing metadata by ticker or CIK. Perfect for financial analysis, AI/LLM training data, and compliance monitoring.