SEC 8-K Filings by Ticker with Item Codes

Get every current report (Form 8-K) a US-listed company has filed with the SEC, one row per filing, with the item codes already parsed and paired with their official titles. Give it a list of tickers and it returns earnings releases, executive changes, material agreements, acquisitions, cybersecurity incidents, and every other event companies must disclose within four business days, each with a direct link to the document on EDGAR. Filter by item code and date range to get only the filings you care about. Turn on text extraction and each row also carries the plain text of the filing body and a list of its exhibits, such as the EX-99.1 press release attached to an earnings 8-K.

The data comes from the SEC's official EDGAR endpoints over plain HTTP. There is no browser, no proxy, no API key and no login; the actor identifies itself as the SEC's fair-access policy requires and stays under the SEC's request-rate limit. Because it reads the SEC's own submissions feed, a new filing appears in results within minutes of the SEC accepting it. Amendments (Form 8-K/A) are included and marked in the form field.

At a glance

Three real rows from a run for AAPL:

ticker	form	filingDate	reportDate	items	exhibits
AAPL	8-K/A	2026-09-01	2026-04-17	5.02	(none)
AAPL	8-K	2026-07-30	2026-07-30	2.02, 9.01	EX-99.1
AAPL	8-K	2026-04-20	2026-04-17	5.02	(none)

The first row is an amendment filed in September to a report about an April event, which is why reportDate and filingDate differ. The second is a quarterly earnings release with the press release attached as exhibit 99.1.

What data does it extract?

Each row is one 8-K or 8-K/A filing.

Company

• ticker: the ticker you asked for, upper-cased.
• cik: the registrant's 10-digit SEC Central Index Key, zero-padded.
• companyName: the registrant name as recorded in the SEC submissions feed. Null if the name could not be read.

Filing identity

• form: 8-K for an original report, 8-K/A for an amendment.
• accessionNumber: the SEC accession number, unique per filing, in the form 0000320193-26-000018.
• filingDate: the date the filing was submitted to the SEC (YYYY-MM-DD). Date filters and ordering use this field.
• reportDate: the date of the earliest event the filing reports, which is often earlier than the filing date. Null when the feed has none.
• acceptanceDateTime: the EDGAR acceptance timestamp in ISO 8601 UTC, to the second.

What happened

• items: the item codes reported, for example ["2.02", "9.01"]. Empty on some older filings the SEC never tagged.
• itemTitles: the official SEC title for each code in items, in the same order. A code the actor does not recognize is passed through unchanged as its own title.

Where to read it

• primaryDocument: file name of the main 8-K document.
• primaryDocumentUrl: direct link to that document on EDGAR.
• filingIndexUrl: the filing's index page on EDGAR, listing every file in the submission.
• sourceUrl: the same index page, kept as the provenance link for the row.

Text and exhibits (only when includeText is on)

• text: plain text of the primary document with scripts, styles, headers and inline XBRL metadata removed and paragraph breaks preserved. Null when text was not requested or could not be fetched.
• exhibits: the other files in the filing, each with type (for example EX-99.1), filename and url. Derived from the filing index; see the FAQ for how types are determined. Empty when text is off.

8-K item codes

Every 8-K reports one or more numbered items. The SEC groups them into nine sections. The items input accepts any of these codes, and itemTitles in the output carries the official title shown here.

Section 1: Registrant's Business and Operations

Code	Official title	Plain English
1.01	Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement	The company signed a contract big enough that investors should know: a merger agreement, a major supply deal, a credit facility.
1.02	Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement
1.03	Bankruptcy or Receivership
1.04	Mine Safety - Reporting of Shutdowns and Patterns of Violations
1.05	Material Cybersecurity Incidents	The company suffered a cyberattack or breach it judged material, and is describing its nature, scope and likely impact.

Section 2: Financial Information

Code	Official title	Plain English
2.01	Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets	A deal closed: the company bought or sold a business or a significant block of assets.
2.02	Results of Operations and Financial Condition	Earnings. The quarterly or annual results press release is almost always attached as exhibit 99.1.
2.03	Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant
2.04	Triggering Events That Accelerate or Increase a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement
2.05	Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities
2.06	Material Impairments

Section 3: Securities and Trading Markets

Code	Official title	Plain English
3.01	Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing
3.02	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
3.03	Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders

Section 4: Matters Related to Accountants and Financial Statements

Code	Official title	Plain English
4.01	Changes in Registrant's Certifying Accountant	The company changed auditors, or the auditor resigned or declined to stand for re-election.
4.02	Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Review	Previously published financial statements can no longer be relied on; a restatement is coming or under way.

Section 5: Corporate Governance and Management

Code	Official title	Plain English
5.01	Changes in Control of Registrant
5.02	Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers	An executive or director left, was appointed or elected, or had a compensation arrangement changed. CEO and CFO transitions are reported here.
5.03	Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year
5.04	Temporary Suspension of Trading Under Registrant's Employee Benefit Plans
5.05	Amendment to Registrant's Code of Ethics, or Waiver of a Provision of the Code of Ethics
5.06	Change in Shell Company Status
5.07	Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
5.08	Shareholder Director Nominations

Section 6: Asset-Backed Securities

Code	Official title	Plain English
6.01	ABS Informational and Computational Material
6.02	Change of Servicer or Trustee
6.03	Change in Credit Enhancement or Other External Support
6.04	Failure to Make a Required Distribution
6.05	Securities Act Updating Disclosure

Section 7: Regulation FD

Code	Official title	Plain English
7.01	Regulation FD Disclosure	Information the company chose to publish to everyone at once, typically investor presentations or guidance, to satisfy fair-disclosure rules.

Section 8: Other Events

Code	Official title	Plain English
8.01	Other Events	Anything the company considers important that no other item covers: litigation updates, dividends, buyback announcements, product news.

Section 9: Financial Statements and Exhibits

Code	Official title	Plain English
9.01	Financial Statements and Exhibits	The filing has attachments. It appears alongside another item on most 8-Ks, so it is rarely useful as a filter on its own.

Input

Field	Meaning	Default	When to use it
tickers	One or more stock tickers, for example ["AAPL", "MSFT"]. Each is resolved to an SEC CIK from the SEC's own ticker registry. Case does not matter.	required	Always. One ticker for a company watch, many for a portfolio or sector.
items	Keep only filings that report at least one of these item codes. A filing with several items matches if any one of them is in the list. Empty means every filing.	all items	["2.02"] for earnings releases, ["5.02"] for executive changes, ["1.01", "2.01"] for deals.
startDate	Earliest filingDate to include, YYYY-MM-DD. With no dates and no count, the actor returns the last 30 days.	last 30 days	Backfills and anything that should stop at a known date.
endDate	Latest filingDate to include, YYYY-MM-DD.	none	Reproducing a historical window.
maxFilingsPerTicker	Newest filings first. Counts only filings that pass the item filter. Applies only when set, and combines with dates to cap a window.	none	A bounded backfill, or a daily check where you only need the latest few.
includeText	Fetch each filing's primary document, add its full plain text, and list its exhibits. Charged per filing whose text is delivered, in addition to the row.	false	When you need to read or summarize the filing, or need exhibit links.

Filings within each ticker are returned newest first. When a date range reaches back beyond the SEC's recent-filings window, the actor fetches the older submission pages it needs.

Earnings releases for a portfolio, with the text ready to read

{
    "tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA"],
    "items": ["2.02"],
    "startDate": "2026-01-01",
    "includeText": true
}

Leadership changes across a sector, metadata only

{
    "tickers": ["JPM", "BAC", "WFC", "C", "GS", "MS"],
    "items": ["5.02"],
    "maxFilingsPerTicker": 10
}

Full history backfill for one company

{
    "tickers": ["TSLA"],
    "startDate": "2015-01-01",
    "endDate": "2025-12-31",
    "maxFilingsPerTicker": 1000
}

A metadata-only run needs only a few requests per ticker, so it finishes in seconds however many filings it returns. With includeText on, each filing costs two requests to the SEC (the document and the filing index) at the actor's default pace of five requests per second, so expect roughly 150 filings a minute: 1,000 filings with text take about seven minutes.

Output example

One row from the run shown above, with text shortened for display.

{
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "cik": "0000320193",
    "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
    "form": "8-K",
    "filingDate": "2026-07-30",
    "reportDate": "2026-07-30",
    "acceptanceDateTime": "2026-07-30T20:30:28.000Z",
    "accessionNumber": "0000320193-26-000018",
    "items": ["2.02", "9.01"],
    "itemTitles": [
        "Results of Operations and Financial Condition",
        "Financial Statements and Exhibits"
    ],
    "primaryDocument": "aapl-20260730.htm",
    "primaryDocumentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000018/aapl-20260730.htm",
    "filingIndexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000018/0000320193-26-000018-index.htm",
    "exhibits": [
        {
            "type": "EX-99.1",
            "filename": "a8-kex991q3202606272026.htm",
            "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000018/a8-kex991q3202606272026.htm"
        }
    ],
    "text": "UNITED STATES\nSECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION\nWashington, D.C. 20549\n\nFORM 8-K\nCURRENT REPORT\nPursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934\nJuly 30, 2026\nDate of Report (Date of earliest event reported)\n\nApple Inc.\n(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter) ...",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000018/0000320193-26-000018-index.htm"
}

Rows land in the run's default dataset as they are produced, so you can start reading before the run finishes. Download it from Console or the API as JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel or XML. The Console table view shows the main columns; the full row is in every export.

Errors and edge cases

When something fails, the actor writes an ERRORS record to the run's default key-value store: a JSON list with one entry per failure. Each entry names the ticker, an error message, and, for a filing-level failure, the accessionNumber and sourceUrl. The record exists only when at least one thing failed, and the run's status message says how many errors there were. Nothing that failed is charged.

• Ticker not in the SEC registry. Some ETFs, foreign listings, and recently changed tickers are not in the SEC's ticker-to-CIK file. The ticker is skipped, recorded in ERRORS as Ticker not found in SEC registry, and the run continues with the next one.
• A document cannot be fetched or extracted. With includeText on, if the primary document cannot be downloaded or parsed, the filing is still delivered as a metadata row with text null and exhibits empty, the failure is recorded in ERRORS with the accession number, and no text charge is made for that filing. If the document was extracted but the filing index could not be read, the text is kept and exhibits is empty, and the text charge applies, since the text was delivered.
• Empty items on old filings. The SEC only began tagging item codes in its structured feed in the mid-2000s. Older filings come back with items empty and documents linked. Because the item filter matches on the tagged codes, an items filter excludes them.
• SEC throttling. The SEC caps traffic at 10 requests per second for everything identifying itself as the same client and answers a throttled request with a distinctive response. When that happens the actor pauses (30 seconds the first time, longer on each consecutive throttle, up to 10 minutes), halves its request rate, and retries. The rate climbs back toward the ceiling after a run of successful requests. If the cumulative pause time in one run would exceed 20 minutes, the actor stops, keeps every row it has already delivered, and ends with a status message saying the SEC was still refusing requests.
• Transient SEC errors. Server errors and connection failures are retried with increasing delays before a request is given up on.
• Spending limit reached. If your run's maximum charge is reached, the actor stops cleanly with a status message; everything delivered so far stays in the dataset.

How much does it cost?

You pay per result. One billable unit is one dataset row, and one row is one 8-K or 8-K/A filing that passed your filters. A ticker that resolves to no filings in your window costs nothing, and a ticker the SEC does not know costs nothing.

When includeText is on, a second event, filing-text, is charged once per filing whose text was actually delivered. A filing whose document could not be fetched yields its metadata row but no text charge. With includeText off, the event is never charged, and exhibits stays empty.

Apify's standard actor start event applies to every run. Current prices for the row, the filing-text event and the start event are on this actor's Pricing tab.

Use cases

• Watch a portfolio for earnings releases with items: ["2.02"] and hand the EX-99.1 exhibit URL or the extracted text to a summarizer.
• Detect CEO, CFO and board changes across an industry with items: ["5.02"].
• Track deal flow by filtering on 1.01 (agreement signed) and 2.01 (deal closed).
• Build a cybersecurity incident dataset from 1.05 filings across the whole market.
• Backfill an event database for research with startDate, endDate and maxFilingsPerTicker at its maximum.
• Give an AI agent a dependable answer to "what has this company disclosed recently?" with item titles and full text ready to read.

Run it on a schedule, from the API, or from an agent

Schedule the actor in Apify Console to run every morning after the SEC's filing window closes, call it from the Apify API or any of the Apify client libraries, or expose it to an AI agent through Apify's MCP server. The input is the same JSON everywhere, and every run writes to the same dataset and key-value store layout, so a workflow built in Console moves to code without changes.

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FAQ

Is this legal? Yes. 8-K filings are public records published by the SEC. This actor uses the SEC's official EDGAR endpoints, identifies itself with an organization name and contact address as the SEC's fair-access policy requires, and stays under the SEC's request-rate limit.

Are amendments included? Yes. Form 8-K/A filings are always returned and marked with form set to 8-K/A. An amendment has its own accession number and filing date, while its reportDate usually matches the original filing, so you can pair them by ticker and reportDate or by the item code.

How does the item filter treat a filing with several items? It matches if any one of the filing's items is in your list. Most earnings 8-Ks report 2.02 and 9.01 together, so filtering on ["2.02"] returns them and itemTitles still lists both.

Why are exhibits only listed with includeText? Listing exhibits needs an extra request per filing to read the filing index. It is bundled with text extraction so metadata-only runs stay fast and are billed as rows alone.

How are exhibit types determined? From the file names in the filing index, which EDGAR filers write in forms like ex991.htm or exhibit10-1.htm. The actor maps those to EX-99.1 and EX-10.1. XML, XBRL schema, image and archive files are skipped. It is a best-effort classification: an exhibit with an unusual file name may be missed or typed imprecisely. The filing index at filingIndexUrl is authoritative.

What does the extracted text look like? The primary document's visible text with paragraph breaks kept. It opens with the SEC cover page (registrant, addresses, checkbox declarations), so the item narrative starts a page or so in. A press release is a separate exhibit; its URL is in exhibits.

A ticker returned nothing. Check the run's ERRORS record in the key-value store. Tickers the SEC does not list are reported there. If the ticker is not in ERRORS, it resolved fine and simply has no 8-K filings matching your item and date filters.

What happens if the SEC rate-limits the run? It finishes late rather than failing: the actor pauses, slows down and retries, and only gives up after 20 minutes of cumulative cooldown, keeping every row already delivered. Details are under Errors and edge cases.

Something is missing or wrong? Open an issue on this actor's Issues tab and it will be looked at.