SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper — Companies, Forms, Full-Text

Every filing a US public company has submitted to the SEC, or every filing that mentions your phrase — as JSON, CSV or Excel, or straight into your own tools through the API.

Two ways to ask:

• By company — paste tickers (AAPL), CIK numbers (0000320193) or registrant names. You get the company's whole submission history, newest first, filtered by form type and date.
• By phrase — search the text of every filing since 2001: "going concern", "cybersecurity incident", a product name, a person. You get the filings from every company that used the words.

Both read EDGAR's own public APIs — no key, no login, no scraping of HTML — at the request rate the SEC asks automated clients to keep.

Why this Actor

• Both ways of asking, one Actor. A company's full filing history and full-text search across every filer since 2001 — most tools do one or the other.
• Usable rows, not ids. Ticker, CIK, SIC industry, state, form items and direct EDGAR links come with every filing, so nothing needs a second lookup.
• The text, when you want it. Turn on document text and each filing arrives as plain text ready for an LLM, a keyword scan or a diff — charged only for the documents you actually fetch.
• Polite by design. EDGAR's published rate limits and a descriptive User-Agent, so runs do not get your IP blocked the way a naive scraper does.

Sample output

One item of the dataset (long values shortened):

{
  "company": "Astrana Health, Inc.",
  "ticker": "ASTH",
  "form": "8-K",
  "filingDate": "2026-09-23",
  "reportDate": "2026-09-22",
  "items": [
    "1.05"
  ],
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083446/000110465926109813/0001104659-26-109813-index.htm",
  "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1083446/000110465926109813/asth-20260922x8k.htm"
}

What you get

• Company, ticker, CIK, SIC industry and state, so filings are usable without a second lookup
• Form type and, for 8-K, the item numbers that say what happened (2.02 results, 5.02 officer change, 1.05 cybersecurity incident)
• Filing date, period covered, acceptance timestamp, accession and file numbers
• Direct links to the EDGAR filing index and to the primary document
• Optional plain text of the document itself, ready for an LLM or a keyword scan
• Monitored daily

Input

• Companies — tickers, CIKs or names. A CIK works even for companies with no ticker (funds, private filers, foreign issuers).
• Full-text search — one or more phrases. Quote them for an exact match; without quotes EDGAR matches the words separately and returns far more.
• Form types — 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, 4, 13F-HR, SC 13D, … Amendments (8-K/A) come along automatically.
• Filed after / Filed before, Max filings per company or query, Include document text, Max characters of document text.

Limits and notes

• Full-text search covers filings from 2001 onwards — that is EDGAR's own index, not a limit of this Actor. The per-company path goes back to whatever EDGAR holds for that filer.
• Search results come back in EDGAR's relevance order inside your date range; the per-company path is strictly newest first.
• One search can match hundreds of thousands of filings — narrow it with a date range and form types rather than raising the limit.
• Document text is the filing's primary document. For a 10-K that can be megabytes, so it is cut at the length you set and charged separately.
• The SEC asks automated clients to identify themselves and stay under ten requests a second; the Actor does both, which is why a run of thousands of filings takes minutes rather than seconds.

Input example

{
  "companies": [
    "AAPL",
    "NVDA"
  ],
  "formTypes": [
    "8-K"
  ],
  "filedAfter": "30 days",
  "maxFilings": 50,
  "includeDocumentText": false,
  "maxTextChars": 200000
}

How much does it cost?

Pay per filing — no subscription, no minimum, no charge for platform usage.

Volume	Price
1,000 filings	$1.00 (+ $2.00 with document)
10,000 filings	$10.00 (+ $20.00 with document)
100,000 filings	$100.00 (+ $200.00 with document)

The Apify free plan includes $5 of usage every month — about 5,000 filings with this Actor, no card needed. Nothing else is charged: platform usage is included in the price, and Apify Bronze, Silver and Gold subscribers get 10%, 20% and 30% off these prices.

Use it from code, n8n, Make, Zapier or an AI agent

Run the Actor and download the dataset in one call (JSON by default; add &format=csv or xlsx):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/chorelet~sec-edgar-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"companies": ["AAPL", "NVDA"], "formTypes": ["8-K"], "filedAfter": "30 days", "maxFilings": 50, "includeDocumentText": false, "maxTextChars": 200000}'

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("chorelet/sec-edgar-scraper").call(run_input={"companies": ["AAPL", "NVDA"], "formTypes": ["8-K"], "filedAfter": "30 days", "maxFilings": 50, "includeDocumentText": false, "maxTextChars": 200000})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

• n8n, Make, Zapier — use the Apify node/module: run the Actor, then "get dataset items".
• Google Sheets, Slack, webhooks — add an integration on the run's Integrations tab.
• AI agents — the Actor is available as a tool through the Apify MCP server; the dataset schema describes every field for the model.
• Schedules — run it hourly, daily or weekly from the Schedules tab.

FAQ

Do I need an SEC API key?

No. EDGAR publishes both the submissions API and full-text search openly. The SEC only asks that automated clients identify themselves and keep under ten requests a second, which the Actor does.

How far back does the search go?

Full-text search covers filings from 2001 onwards — that is EDGAR's index. A company's submission history goes back as far as EDGAR holds it for that filer.

How do I watch for new filings?

Give the companies (or the phrase), set Filed after to 1 day and schedule the Actor daily. Each run returns only what is new, so a watchlist of 50 companies costs cents a day.

What is in the document text?

The filing's primary document — the 10-K, the 8-K body, the press release exhibit — converted from HTML to plain text and cut at the length you choose. Exhibits other than the primary document are not fetched.

Can I get XBRL financial figures?

Not in this Actor: it returns filings and their text. The isXBRL flag tells you which filings carry structured data, and the EDGAR company-facts API is the place to pull the numbers from.

Support

Questions, missing fields or a source that changed? Open an issue on the Issues tab or write to support@chorelet.app — problems are usually fixed within a day, and the Actor is checked every morning by an automated test run. If the Actor saved you time, a short review on its Store page helps other people find it.