SEC EDGAR Filings Monitor — 8-K, 10-K, Form D

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What does SEC EDGAR Filings Monitor do?

It gets new SEC EDGAR filings as clean JSON from official, keyless SEC sources. Run it on a schedule with Only new items on, and each run returns only filings you haven't seen yet. That gives you an EDGAR alert feed you can send to email, Slack, Google Sheets or your own endpoint with Apify integrations and webhooks.

Two modes:

• Market-wide: every new filing of the form types you choose, e.g. all 8-Ks or all Form D filings, from EDGAR's daily form indexes.
• Watchlist: filings by specific companies (tickers or CIKs), from the data.sec.gov submissions API. The SEC updates it in real time as filings are disseminated. This mode adds tickers, 8-K item numbers and a direct document link.

Features:

• No API key, no login, no website scraping. The SEC's fair-access rules are followed: a declared User-Agent and no more than 4 requests per second (the SEC limit is 10).
• Webhook-ready run summary (counts plus up to 50 new items) saved as SUMMARY in the run's key-value store.

Who uses SEC filing alerts?

Investors and analysts watching 8-Ks from companies they follow, deal and fundraising researchers tracking new Form D filings, journalists, and compliance teams.

How to monitor SEC filings

1. Choose form types (8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, D, S-1, SC 13D, 4...), and optionally tickers or CIKs.
2. Run once to check results.
3. Save the input as a Task and add a Schedule (e.g. daily at 07:00 ET).
4. Leave Only new items on. Each run returns only new filings.

"Only new" state is kept in a named key-value store, keyed by a hash of your filters, so different Tasks keep separate state. Use Reset state to start over.

Input example

{ "forms": ["8-K"], "daysBack": 3, "maxItems": 20 }

Watchlist example: { "tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT"], "forms": ["8-K", "10-K", "10-Q"], "daysBack": 14 }

Field	What it does
forms	Exact EDGAR form types (default 8-K). Empty = all forms
includeAmendments	Also match amendments such as 8-K/A (default on)
tickers / ciks	Watchlist mode, up to 200 companies. Unknown tickers are logged and skipped
companyNameContains	Market-wide mode: company-name filter
daysBack	Look-back window, 0–30 days (default 3)
maxItems	Per-run cap (default 20)
onlyNew, resetState, webhookSummary	Monitoring state and run summary

Output example (real record from a test run, 2026-10-30)

{
  "id": "0001193125-26-437823",
  "source": "sec-edgar",
  "cik": "712034",
  "companyName": "ACCO BRANDS Corp",
  "tickers": null,
  "form": "8-K",
  "filingDate": "2026-10-29",
  "accessionNumber": "0001193125-26-437823",
  "items": null,
  "primaryDocDescription": null,
  "filingIndexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/712034/000119312526437823/0001193125-26-437823-index.htm",
  "documentUrl": null,
  "isNew": true,
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-30T12:25:13.746Z"
}

Fields: id, source, cik, companyName, tickers, form, filingDate, accessionNumber, items, primaryDocDescription, filingIndexUrl, documentUrl, isNew, fetchedAt.

• tickers, items (8-K item numbers such as 2.02,9.01), primaryDocDescription and documentUrl are filled in watchlist mode only.
• The output is filing metadata and links. It does not include parsed financial statements or full filing text.

Form D: new private placements feed

Set forms to ["D"] with no tickers or ciks to get new Form D notices market-wide each day.

8-K alerts for a ticker watchlist

Add tickers or ciks and set forms to ["8-K"]. Each scheduled run returns only filings you have not seen.

Fair access

The Actor follows the SEC fair-access policy: it sends a declared User-Agent and stays well under 10 requests per second (https://www.sec.gov/os/accessing-edgar-data).

How much does it cost?

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005 per run
Result	$0.002 per filing written to the dataset ($2 per 1,000)

Example: a daily run returning 20 new filings costs $0.005 + $0.04 = $0.045. With Only new on, you pay only for new filings. Set a maximum total charge on the run to cap spend; the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached. Platform compute is billed by Apify as usual.

Limits

• Market-wide mode uses EDGAR daily indexes, which appear after each business day. Results can lag by up to about one business day, and weekends or holidays have no file. For same-day alerts, use watchlist mode.
• Watchlist mode reads each company's recent-filings list (at least the last year or 1,000 filings).
• Filings beyond Max items aren't marked as seen, so later runs deliver them.

FAQ

Do I need an SEC API key?

No. The SEC's data.sec.gov APIs and EDGAR archives need no key. Automated access must follow the SEC's fair-access policy, which this Actor does.

Can I get alerts in Slack or email?

Yes. Schedule a Task and attach an Apify integration, or a webhook that reads the SUMMARY record.

Is this investment advice?

No. This is a data tool, not investment, legal or tax advice. Always check the filing on sec.gov. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Data source & terms

• EDGAR APIs: https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces
• Accessing EDGAR data (fair access): https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-search-assistance/accessing-edgar-data