SEC EDGAR Filings API: 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K & Full-Text Search

Get SEC EDGAR filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, Form 4, 13F) by ticker or CIK, or full-text search every filing, straight from SEC's official APIs. No API key. $2.50 per 1,000 filings.

What does it do?

SEC EDGAR Filings Search pulls filings from the SEC's official EDGAR APIs: list a company's 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, Form 4, 13F and more by ticker or CIK, or run EDGAR full-text search for phrases like "going concern". Each row has form, dates, accession number, 8-K items and direct document links.

• ✅ Official public data source: no login, no cookies, no proxies
• ✅ Fast: plain API calls, typical runs finish in seconds
• ✅ Clean, flat JSON / CSV / Excel output, ready for Sheets, BI tools or AI agents
• ✅ Pay only for results: no monthly rental

Use cases

• Investors & analysts: track new 8-Ks and 10-Qs for a watchlist.
• Due diligence & legal: full-text search for risk phrases across all filers.
• Data pipelines & AI: feed filing links into LLM summarizers.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free. The input is prefilled with a working example.
2. Edit the input (see examples below) and click Start.
3. Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or pull them via API.

Input examples

Latest 10-K/8-K for AAPL and TSLA

{
  "companies": [
    "AAPL",
    "TSLA"
  ],
  "formTypes": [
    "10-K",
    "8-K"
  ],
  "maxFilingsPerCompany": 5
}

Full-text search

{
  "fullTextQueries": [
    "\"going concern\""
  ],
  "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "maxSearchResults": 10
}

Output

Sample rows:

company	form	filingDate	reportDate	accessionNumber	documentUrl
Apple Inc.	8-K	2026-07-30	2026-07-30	0000320193-26-000018	https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0000320193260…
Apple Inc.	8-K	2026-04-30	2026-04-30	0000320193-26-000011	https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0000320193260…
Apple Inc.	8-K	2026-04-20	2026-04-17	0001140361-26-015711	https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/0001140361260…

Sample JSON record (long fields shortened):

{
  "input": "AAPL",
  "found": true,
  "mode": "company",
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "company": "Apple Inc.",
  "tickers": [
    "AAPL"
  ],
  "sic": "3571",
  "sicDescription": "Electronic Computers",
  "stateOfIncorporation": "CA",
  "form": "8-K",
  "filingDate": "2026-07-30",
  "reportDate": "2026-07-30",
  "accessionNumber": "0000320193-26-000018",
  "items": "2.02,9.01",
  "primaryDocument": "aapl-20260730.htm",
  "primaryDocDescription": "8-K",
  "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000018/aapl-20260730.htm",
  "indexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000018/0000320193-26-000018-index.htm",
  "source": "SEC EDGAR data.sec.gov submissions API"
}

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.0025 per filing ($2.50 per 1,000). No start fee, no monthly rental. Rows for not-found inputs and errors are free.

Results	Cost
100 filings	$0.25
1,000 filings	$2.50
10,000 filings	$25.00

Apify's free plan includes monthly platform credit, so you can try it at no cost.

Integrations

• Google Sheets: use Apify's Google Sheets integration, or import the dataset CSV link with =IMPORTDATA().
• Zapier & Make: trigger runs and receive the dataset via the official Apify apps.
• Webhooks & schedules: run daily or hourly and post results anywhere.
• AI agents (MCP): available to Claude, ChatGPT and other agents through the Apify MCP server.
• API & SDKs: call from Python, JavaScript or any HTTP client:

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/clearpathdata~sec-edgar-filings/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"companies": ["AAPL", "TSLA"], "formTypes": ["10-K", "8-K"], "maxFilingsPerCompany": 5}'

FAQ

Do I need an SEC API key?

No. It uses SEC's public APIs with a compliant user agent and rate limit.

Does it download the full document text?

It returns document and index URLs; fetch the document as needed.

Something not working?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab, and it will be fixed quickly.

More details

Get SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, Form 4, 13F...) by ticker/CIK or full-text search, straight from SEC's official EDGAR APIs. No key.

Search SEC EDGAR the official way. Give tickers/CIKs to pull each company's filing history, or run EDGAR full-text search for phrases (e.g. "going concern", "material weakness", "cybersecurity incident") across every filing since 2001. Filter by form type and date.

Uses: investor research, due diligence, M&A/event monitoring (8-K items), insider-filing (Form 4) tracking, compliance, building filing datasets for AI/RAG.

Output fields

company, CIK, tickers, SIC, form, filing date, period of report, accession number, 8-K item numbers, primary document name/description, direct document URL and filing index URL.

Source and terms

Data comes only from SEC's public APIs (data.sec.gov/submissions, efts.sec.gov full-text search, company_tickers.json) with a declared User-Agent and polite rate limiting, per SEC's fair-access policy. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the SEC.

Pricing

Pay per event: filing. Charged per SEC filing record returned. You pay only for results. Not-found/error rows are free. Apify platform usage is included.

Example input

{
  "companies": [
    "AAPL",
    "320193"
  ],
  "fullTextQueries": [
    "\"going concern\""
  ],
  "formTypes": [
    "10-K",
    "8-K"
  ],
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "maxFilingsPerCompany": 3,
  "maxSearchResults": 5
}

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