# SEC Form 4 Insider Trading Scraper: Buys & Sells (MCP) (`crispy_brant/sec-edgar-insider-trading-signal-scraper`) Actor

Latest SEC Form 4 insider transactions from EDGAR: who bought or sold, their role (CEO, director, 10% owner), shares, price, total value and holdings after the trade. Filter by transaction type, minimum value or CIK.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/crispy_brant/sec-edgar-insider-trading-signal-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [zakaria ouchen](https://apify.com/crispy_brant) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$10.00 / 1,000 extracted record / mcp tool items

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## SEC Form 4 Insider Trading Scraper: Buys & Sells (Pay-Per-Event / MCP)

Reads the newest **Form 4** filings from SEC EDGAR (full-text search plus each filing's XML) and returns one record per filing:

- issuer name, CIK and ticker
- insider name and CIK, and whether they are a director, an officer (with title) or a 10% owner
- each matching transaction: date, code and meaning, shares, price, value, acquired or disposed, shares owned after
- shares bought, shares sold and total value

By default only open-market purchases (P) and sales (S) are returned. Add codes such as A (award), M (option exercise) or F (tax withholding) to include them.

Source: SEC EDGAR public filings (efts.sec.gov and sec.gov/Archives). Requests are paced under SEC's 10-per-second fair-access limit, and you can pass your own contact email for the User-Agent SEC asks for. Not investment advice.

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#### 🤖 Dual-Mode Execution: Batch API + Standby MCP Server (`/mcp`)

This Actor runs in **128MB–256MB RAM** with zero proxy overhead and supports both:

1. **Batch Automation (Clay.com, n8n, Make.com, REST API):** Standard `POST /v2/acts/crispy_brant~sec-edgar-insider-trading-signal-scraper/runs`.
2. **Autonomous AI Agent MCP Server (Claude Code, Cursor, LangChain):** Connect directly via Streamable HTTP MCP at `/mcp`.

# Actor input Schema

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

Form 4 filings from this many days.

## `transactionCodes` (type: `array`):

P = open-market purchase, S = open-market sale, A = award, M = option exercise, F = tax withholding, G = gift.

## `minValueUsd` (type: `integer`):

Skip filings whose matching transactions add up to less.

## `cik` (type: `string`):

Only filings for this SEC CIK, e.g. 0000320193 for Apple.

## `contactEmail` (type: `string`):

SEC asks automated tools to identify themselves; this goes in the User-Agent.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum Form 4 filings to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "daysBack": 3,
  "transactionCodes": [
    "P",
    "S"
  ],
  "minValueUsd": 0,
  "maxItems": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing all normalized records produced by the Actor run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("crispy_brant/sec-edgar-insider-trading-signal-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("crispy_brant/sec-edgar-insider-trading-signal-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call crispy_brant/sec-edgar-insider-trading-signal-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,crispy_brant/sec-edgar-insider-trading-signal-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/l6FPowgebi5M9AYfE/builds/2gwloJgLpFStoAO6x/openapi.json