SEC Filings & Insider Signals: 8-K, Form 4 & 10-Q API

One clean, evidence-linked research report per company, built only from official SEC EDGAR data. Give it tickers or CIKs (or let it find companies for you). For each company you get:

• 8-K events in plain English. Every item code (2.02, 5.02, 4.02…) is translated ("Earnings release", "Auditor changed", "Past financial statements can no longer be relied on") and the text is scanned for buybacks, raised / lowered / withdrawn guidance, dividend increases, share offerings, going-concern doubt and restructuring, with the exact quote and link.
• Form 4 insider trades parsed from the XML. Who, role (CEO, Director, 10% owner…), shares, price, USD value, shares owned after, direct or indirect, and flags for open-market buy, open-market sale, 10b5-1 plan and sell-to-cover (tax) sales. Includes cluster-buy and CEO/CFO-buy detection.
• 10-Q / 10-K key facts with QoQ and YoY changes. Revenue, gross / operating / net margin, diluted EPS, diluted share count (dilution), operating and free cash flow, cash spent on buybacks, cash, long-term debt and shares outstanding. Missing Q4s are derived as FY minus 9 months and labelled.
• A transparent evidence score (0–100) with every rule, its points and the filing links behind it, plus a ready-made bear case and a list of data gaps.

Every number links to its source filing. Each value carries the accession number, form, filed date, period, XBRL concept and a sourceUrl that opens the filing on sec.gov.

$2 per 1,000 company reports ($0.002 per report). Errors and unknown tickers are free. No API key, no proxies and no scraping of paid sites: only data.sec.gov, efts.sec.gov and www.sec.gov/Archives.

Not financial advice. This Actor summarizes public filings for research and education. It does not predict prices, does not recommend buying or selling anything and never trades. Always open the linked filing before relying on a number.

Why this one?

	This Actor	Typical SEC Actors on the Store
What you get per row	A full company report: 8-K + Form 4 + 10-Q/10-K facts + score	One filing or one trade per row, so you assemble it yourself
Price for a company with 25 insider trades and 5 8-Ks	$0.002	$0.06 at $0.002/trade, $0.75 at $0.025/row, $0.30 per "company analyzed"
Insider data	Parsed XML: role, price, value, open-market buy flag, 10b5-1, sell-to-cover	Often only filing links or titles
Fundamentals	QoQ + YoY, margins, dilution, debt, derived Q4, every value sourced	Raw XBRL dumps, or none
8-K	Plain-English item labels + buyback/guidance quotes with links	Item codes only
Score	Rule-by-rule, points and evidence links, bear case	None, or a black box
Agents	Flat summary fields, compact mode, stable field names, MCP-ready	Large nested raw output

Use cases

• AI agents and research copilots (MCP): "Give me the SEC evidence on NVDA and SOUN" is one call. The agent gets flat fields to reason with and links to cite.
• Overnight research workflows: run a scan (insider-buys, buybacks, guidance-raised) every evening, rank by evidenceScore, read the evidence in the morning.
• Analysts, newsletters and journalists: insider-buying roundups, dilution watchlists, 8-K red-flag monitors (4.02 restatements, 3.01 delisting notices, 4.01 auditor changes).
• Fintech apps and dashboards: a clean JSON feed of fundamentals and insider activity without parsing EDGAR yourself.
• Compliance / due diligence: quick, sourced background on any SEC registrant by CIK.

How to use it

1. Enter tickers or CIKs in Companies, for example AAPL, NVDA, BRK.B, 320193.
2. Or choose a Scan mode:
   • insider-buys: reads recent Form 4 XML and keeps companies whose insiders bought on the open market.
   • buybacks: 8-Ks announcing share repurchase programs.
   • guidance-raised: 8-Ks saying guidance or outlook was raised.
   • full-text: any SEC full-text query, e.g. "strategic alternatives" OR "going private".
3. Click Start. Use the Overview, Fundamentals or Errors view, or export JSON / CSV / Excel. The OUTPUT record holds a ranking by score.

Input examples

{ "companies": ["AAPL", "NVDA", "SOUN"], "lookbackDays": 90 }

{ "scanMode": "insider-buys", "scanDays": 3, "maxCompanies": 20, "outputDetail": "compact" }

Output example (flat summary of a real run, shortened)

{
  "recordType": "company-report",
  "input": "SOUN",
  "ticker": "SOUN",
  "cik": "0001840856",
  "companyName": "SOUNDHOUND AI, INC.",
  "evidenceScore": 54,
  "scoreLabel": "mixed / neutral evidence",
  "topSignals": [
    "+8 Revenue up 45.02% year over year (2026-06-30: $61.90M vs $42.68M).",
    "-8 Weighted diluted shares up 9.1% year over year (dilution).",
    "+6 An 8-K says the company raised its guidance/outlook. \"Raises Full Year Outlook\" (filed 2026-08-05).",
    "+5 Operating margin -69.95% vs -182.86% a year ago (+112.91 pp).",
    "-4 Net loss of $42.82M in the quarter ending 2026-06-30."
  ],
  "insiderOpenMarketBuys": 0,
  "insiderBuyValueUsd": 0,
  "insiderSellValueUsd": 1828197.75,
  "revenueLatestUsd": 61897000,
  "revenueYoYPct": 45.02,
  "grossMarginPct": 45.12,
  "operatingMarginPct": -69.95,
  "shareCountYoYPct": 9.1,
  "latestQuarterEnd": "2026-06-30",
  "eightKKeywordHits": [
    "guidance-raised"
  ]
}

Every value in financials looks like this:

{
  "value": 61897000,
  "unit": "USD",
  "periodStart": "2026-04-01",
  "periodEnd": "2026-06-30",
  "form": "10-Q",
  "filed": "2026-08-10",
  "accessionNumber": "0001840856-26-000022",
  "concept": "us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerIncludingAssessedTax",
  "derived": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1840856/000184085626000022/0001840856-26-000022-index.htm"
}

And every score signal carries its evidence:

{
  "id": "share-count-yoy",
  "direction": "negative",
  "points": -8,
  "reason": "Weighted diluted shares up 9.1% year over year (dilution).",
  "evidence": [
    "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1840856/000184085626000022/0001840856-26-000022-index.htm"
  ]
}

Output fields

Field	Meaning
evidenceScore, scoreLabel	0–100 rule count (50 = neutral) and its label
topSignals	The 5 strongest signals as "+points reason"
insiderOpenMarketBuys, insiderBuyValueUsd, insiderSellValueUsd, netInsiderOpenMarketUsd	Form 4 open-market activity in the lookback window
revenueLatestUsd, revenueQoQPct, revenueYoYPct	Latest fiscal quarter revenue and changes
grossMarginPct, operatingMarginPct	Latest quarter margins
shareCountYoYPct	Diluted share change YoY (positive = dilution)
longTermDebtUsd, latestQuarterEnd	Balance sheet and period
eightKKeywordHits	Categories found in 8-K text
score	signals[] (id, direction, points, reason, evidence[]), bearCase[], dataGaps[], method
eightK.filings[]	Date, accession, labelled items, filing + document URL, keyword hits with quote and URL
insiders.transactions[]	Insider, roles, date, code + label, shares, price, value, owned after, direct/indirect, open-market flags, 10b5-1, sell-to-cover, filing + XML URL
financials.metrics.*	latest, previousQuarter, yearAgoQuarter, qoqChangePct, yoyChangePct, history[]
financials.margins, financials.dilution	Margins in % and changes in percentage points; share-count changes
sources	Submissions API, company facts API, EDGAR page, latest 10-Q/10-K
disclaimer	Not financial advice

Error rows (recordType: "error", free) have errorCode (INVALID_INPUT, TICKER_NOT_FOUND, CIK_NOT_FOUND, FETCH_FAILED, SCAN_FAILED) and error.

Evidence score rules

Starts at 50, adds the points below when the filings support them, and clamps to 0–100. Every fired rule appears in score.signals with its links.

Evidence	Points
Insider open-market buys (code P)	+6 per distinct buyer (max +18)
Cluster buy (3+ insiders) / CEO, CFO, President or Chair bought	+8 / +5
Open-market sales outside a 10b5-1 plan and not sell-to-cover	−2 per seller (max −8)
Revenue YoY ≥ +15% / ≥ +5% / ≤ −5% / ≤ −15%	+8 / +4 / −4 / −8
Operating margin YoY up ≥ 2 pp / down ≥ 2 pp	+5 / −5
Share count YoY ≥ +5% / ≥ +2% / ≤ −2%	−8 / −4 / +4
Long-term debt YoY ≥ +25% · net loss in the latest quarter	−4 · −4
8-K text: buyback · guidance raised · dividend increase	+5 · +6 · +3
8-K text: guidance lowered · withdrawn · share offering · going-concern · restructuring	−8 · −6 · −5 · −15 · −2
8-K items: 1.03 bankruptcy · 4.02 non-reliance · 3.01 delisting notice · 2.04 debt acceleration	−30 · −15 · −12 · −10
8-K items: 1.05 cyber incident · 2.06 impairment · 4.01 auditor change · 3.02 unregistered equity sale	−6 · −5 · −5 · −3

The score measures how much public evidence points one way. It cannot see valuation, prices, news outside SEC filings or anything a company hasn't filed yet.

Use it from AI agents (MCP)

Add the Apify MCP server with this Actor as a tool:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=actors,dodiabak/sec-filings-insider-signals

Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sec-signals": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=actors,dodiabak/sec-filings-insider-signals",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Tips for agents: send {"companies": ["TICKER"], "outputDetail": "compact"} for small rows (every number still keeps its sourceUrl). Read evidenceScore, topSignals and score.bearCase first, and cite sourceUrl links in your answer. Treat dataGaps as unknowns, not as negatives.

API (synchronous, returns the dataset):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/dodiabak~sec-filings-insider-signals/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"companies":["AAPL","NVDA"],"outputDetail":"compact"}'

Pricing

• $0.002 per company report (event company-report), which is $2 per 1,000.
• Free: error rows, unknown tickers, duplicates (the same company entered twice is charged once) and the OUTPUT ranking.
• The Actor checks your Max cost per run before starting each company and stops cleanly when the budget is reached.

Data sources and fair access

• https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK##########.json: filing index, 8-K items and Form 4 list
• https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK##########.json: XBRL financial facts from 10-Q / 10-K
• https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index: EDGAR full-text search (scan modes)
• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/...: Form 4 XML and 8-K documents
• https://www.sec.gov/files/company_tickers_exchange.json: ticker to CIK map

Requests carry a descriptive User-Agent with a contact email, as SEC asks, and are rate limited across the whole run (default 5 per second, never more than 9, under SEC's 10 per second limit). 429 and rate-limit responses are retried with backoff.

Limits and honest notes

• Quarterly numbers come from the company's own XBRL tags. Some companies (banks, insurers, funds, foreign 20-F/40-F filers, very new filers) tag differently, and some fields may be empty. dataGaps and financials.notes say so.
• Q4 values are usually derived (FY minus the 9-month figure) and are marked derived with both source filings.
• Form 4s are limited to the newest maxForm4PerCompany filings in the window. Mega-caps file many, so raise it if you need all of them.
• Keyword hits are pattern matches with the quoted text. Forward-looking-statement boilerplate is skipped, but read the quote before you rely on it.
• Data is as fresh as EDGAR: filings usually appear within minutes of acceptance.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.