# SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search Scraper (`devilscrapes/sec-edgar-full-text-search`) Actor

Search SEC EDGAR's full-text index for any phrase across all filers and form types (10-K, 8-K, S-1, and more), with date-range and CIK filters. Every row carries the accession number, form type, filer names/CIKs, SIC codes, relevance score, and a direct link to the filing's index page.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/devilscrapes/sec-edgar-full-text-search.md
- **Developed by:** [DevilScrapes](https://apify.com/devilscrapes) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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?

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# README

<p align="center">
<img src=".actor/icon.svg" width="160" alt="SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search Scraper logo" />
</p>

## SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search Scraper

**$3.20 / 1,000 results** — pay only for rows that land, no credit card to try.

Search every SEC filing on EDGAR — any form type, any filer — for a phrase, and get back a structured dataset instead of a web form you have to click through by hand.

### 🔥 What this scrapes

This Actor is a direct client for SEC EDGAR's full-text search index (`efts.sec.gov`) — the same backend behind the official [EDGAR full-text search UI](https://www.sec.gov/search-filings). Give it a phrase, optionally narrow by form type, date range, or a single filer's CIK, and it returns one row per matching filing: accession number, form type, filer names and CIKs, SIC codes, business locations, relevance score, and a direct link to the filing's index page.

This is deliberately **not** a per-company filing lister and **not** a Form D lead-gen tool — we ship both of those separately (`sec-edgar-filings-scraper` for "every filing company X ever made"; `sec-form-d-leads` for Regulation D capital-raise leads). If you want "which filings anywhere mention this phrase," you're in the right place.

### ✨ Features

- 🔎 **Phrase search across every form type** — 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, and everything else EDGAR indexes, all in one query.
- 📅 **Date-range and CIK filters** — narrow to a quarter, a year, or one filer.
- 🧊 **Structured rows, not HTML** — accession number, form type, filer identity, SIC codes, and a resolved filing-index URL, every time.
- 🛡️ **We handle the fair-access gate.** EDGAR requires a descriptive `User-Agent` with contact info or it 403s — we send one so you don't have to figure that out.
- 🔁 **We retry on transport failures** with exponential backoff, and we track EDGAR's own 10,000-row pagination ceiling so a broad query never silently truncates without telling you.
- 💰 **You pay only for results that land.** No matches → no per-row charge, only the small warm-up fee.

### 🧭 Use cases

- **Compliance & legal research** — find every 8-K mentioning "material weakness" in a quarter, across the entire market.
- **Investigative journalism** — trace a phrase (a product name, an executive, a lawsuit) across every filer that mentioned it.
- **Investor due diligence** — check whether a company's own 10-Ks ever mentioned "going concern," "stock buyback," or a competitor by name.
- **Market research** — count how many filers mention a technology, regulation, or trend across a date window.

### ⚙️ How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** (or **Start**) on this Actor's page.
2. Enter your search `query` — the phrase you want matched across EDGAR filings.
3. Optionally narrow with `forms`, `dateFrom`/`dateTo`, or `entityCik`.
4. Run the Actor and export the dataset as JSON or CSV.

### 📥 Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `query` | string | yes | — | Search phrase sent to EDGAR full-text search. |
| `forms` | array of strings | no | all forms | Form types to filter to, e.g. `["10-K", "8-K"]`. |
| `dateFrom` | string (`YYYY-MM-DD`) | no | unbounded | Inclusive lower bound on filing date. |
| `dateTo` | string (`YYYY-MM-DD`) | no | unbounded | Inclusive upper bound on filing date. |
| `entityCik` | string | no | — | Restrict to one filer's CIK (1-10 digits, zero-padded automatically). |
| `maxResults` | integer | no | `100` | Hard cap on rows returned (1-10,000). |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | no | direct connection | Standard Apify Proxy configuration. |

```json
{
  "query": "material weakness",
  "forms": ["8-K"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-03-31",
  "maxResults": 200
}
```

### 📤 Output

One dataset row per matching filing:

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `accession_number` | string | SEC accession number with dashes. |
| `form_type` | string | Per-filing form type. |
| `root_form` | string | null | Form family. |
| `filed_date` | string | Date the filing was filed (ISO date). |
| `period_ending` | string | null | Reporting period end date, if present. |
| `company_names` | array | Filer display names. |
| `ciks` | array | Filer CIKs. |
| `primary_cik` | string | null | First CIK, if any. |
| `sic_codes` | array | SIC industry codes. |
| `business_locations` | array | Filer business locations. |
| `file_numbers` | array | SEC file numbers. |
| `relevance_score` | number | null | Elasticsearch relevance score for this hit. |
| `filing_index_url` | string | EDGAR Archives filing-index page URL. |
| `edgar_hit_id` | string | EDGAR's own composite hit id. |

```json
{
  "accession_number": "0000320193-23-000106",
  "form_type": "10-K",
  "root_form": "10-K",
  "filed_date": "2023-11-03",
  "period_ending": "2023-09-30",
  "company_names": ["Apple Inc."],
  "ciks": ["0000320193"],
  "primary_cik": "0000320193",
  "sic_codes": ["3571"],
  "business_locations": ["CA"],
  "file_numbers": ["001-36743"],
  "relevance_score": 12.4,
  "filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019323000106/0000320193-23-000106-index.htm",
  "edgar_hit_id": "0000320193-23-000106:0"
}
```

### 💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event (PPE) — no rentals, no subscriptions.

| Event | Price | Trigger |
|---|---|---|
| Actor start | $0.20 | Charged once per run. |
| Result row | $0.003 | Charged per filing-hit row written to the dataset. |

1,000 results costs roughly **$3.20** including the flat start fee.

### 🚧 Limitations

- EDGAR's full-text search index covers filings from **2001-01-01 onward** — this is a platform limit, not an Actor bug.
- Pagination stops at EDGAR's own **10,000-row ceiling** per query; a very broad `query` will hit this before returning every match.
- This Actor returns the filing's search hit and index-page link, not the filing document body or XBRL data.

### ❓ FAQ

**Does this need an API key or login?**
No. SEC EDGAR's full-text search is a public, keyless endpoint.

**How is this different from a per-company filing lister?**
That's a different job — see `sec-edgar-filings-scraper` for "every filing company X ever made." This Actor answers "which filings anywhere mention this phrase."

**Can I search for Form D capital-raise leads?**
Use `sec-form-d-leads` for that — it's purpose-built for Regulation D lead generation.

**What happens if my query matches nothing?**
The run succeeds with zero rows and a status message describing exactly what was searched — you're never charged for rows that don't exist.

### 📣 Your feedback

Found a bug or want a field added? Message **DevilScrapes** on Apify — we ship fixes fast.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Search phrase sent to EDGAR full-text search (exact-phrase matched server-side).

## `forms` (type: `array`):

Form types to filter to (e.g. <code>10-K</code>, <code>8-K</code>). Omitted/empty = all forms.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Inclusive lower bound on filing date (<code>YYYY-MM-DD</code>). Omitted = unbounded.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Inclusive upper bound on filing date (<code>YYYY-MM-DD</code>). Omitted = unbounded.

## `entityCik` (type: `string`):

Restrict results to one filer's CIK (1-10 digits; zero-padded automatically).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum rows returned (1-10000). Pagination also stops at EDGAR's own 10,000-row ceiling.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy configuration. Default is a direct connection — this target has no TLS-level anti-bot signal beyond its User-Agent policy.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "material weakness",
  "forms": [
    "10-K",
    "8-K"
  ],
  "entityCik": "320193",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `datasetItems` (type: `string`):

All dataset items as JSON.

## `datasetItemsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same data exported to CSV.

## `datasetView` (type: `string`):

Open the run dataset in the Console.

# 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 = {
    "query": "material weakness",
    "maxResults": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("devilscrapes/sec-edgar-full-text-search").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 = {
    "query": "material weakness",
    "maxResults": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("devilscrapes/sec-edgar-full-text-search").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 '{
  "query": "material weakness",
  "maxResults": 20
}' |
apify call devilscrapes/sec-edgar-full-text-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,devilscrapes/sec-edgar-full-text-search"
        }
    }
}

```

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/uYMmJ7f35F9O6wrfc/builds/A7Y91BXYu3JlPvfd3/openapi.json