SEC EDGAR US Company Filings & Financial Facts Scraper

Detailed scraper for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) EDGAR system. This actor allows you to discover public companies, browse them by exchange, and extract detailed company profiles including recent filings and key XBRL financial facts.

Use it for due diligence, compliance research, filing monitoring, company enrichment, exchange mapping, and investment data pipelines. An empty input returns a one-row capability probe; use the Saved Tasks for buyer-ready company and exchange workflows.

This actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Endpoints

Search

Description: Searches SEC company records by company name, ticker, or keyword and returns matching companies. Why you need it: You often know a company name or ticker but need the correct SEC identifiers (CIK) and structured company metadata before pulling filings or financial facts. Example use: Search for "Apple" or "Apple Hospitality". Customer value: Useful for company discovery, ticker enrichment, lead lists, compliance research, investment screening, and building datasets of public companies.

Category / Categories

Description: Lists or browses companies by category-like grouping, such as exchange or available company collections. Why you need it: You may not want to search one company at a time. You may need to browse a segment of companies and build a structured dataset from a known group. Example use: Browse companies listed on Nasdaq (use category_id: "exchange:Nasdaq"). Customer value: Useful for market mapping, exchange-based datasets, bulk enrichment workflows, and discovering companies without manually preparing search queries.

Item / Detail

Description: Fetches a detailed SEC company profile by ticker, CIK, or company identifier, including filings and financial facts where available. Why you need it: This is the high-value endpoint. Use it when you need full company-level SEC data, not just a search result. Example use: Get details for ticker: "AAPL" or cik: "0000320193". Customer value: Useful for due diligence, compliance checks, financial research, company intelligence, and automated enrichment of internal company databases.

Input Schema

• query: Search term (Name, Ticker, CIK).
• exchange: Filter results by exchange (e.g., Nasdaq, NYSE).
• category_id: Browse by category (e.g., exchange:Nasdaq).
• cik: Specific 10-digit CIK for detailed profile.
• ticker: Specific ticker symbol for detailed profile.
• item_id: Alias for CIK or Ticker.
• filings_limit: Number of recent filings to return (default: 20).
• include_facts: Include summary XBRL financial facts (default: true).
• page: Results page (default: 1).
• limit: Results per page (default: 25).

Example Inputs

Probe:

{}

Exact ticker lookup:

{
  "query": "AAPL",
  "limit": 5
}

Search for Apple:

{
  "query": "Apple",
  "limit": 5
}

Browse Nasdaq:

{
  "category_id": "exchange:Nasdaq",
  "limit": 25
}

Get Apple Inc. details:

{
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "filings_limit": 10,
  "include_facts": true
}

Output Fields

Search and category records include id, item_id, cik, ticker, name, exchange, category_id, source_url, and source.

Item detail records additionally include company metadata, mailing and business addresses, recent filings with direct SEC archive URLs, filing metadata, selected facts_summary financial metrics, and source URLs for SEC submissions, company facts, and profile pages.

Limitations

• The actor depends on the official SEC.gov API.
• Rate limits are handled by the SEC's User-Agent requirements; however, extremely high concurrency may still be subject to SEC's fairness policy.
• Financial facts are extracted from the most recent available XBRL filings and may vary based on the company's reporting standard.
• Exact ticker or CIK queries are the safest identity lookup. Company-name searches can match multiple legal entities.
• Each financial fact includes provenance such as concept, filing date, fiscal year, fiscal period, and form. Metrics may represent different annual or quarterly periods, so downstream comparisons must inspect those fields rather than comparing values blindly.

Buyer-ready Saved Tasks

• Apple SEC Filings & XBRL Due Diligence — detailed Apple profile, five recent filings, and financial facts.
• Tesla SEC Filings & XBRL Due Diligence — detailed Tesla profile for repeatable research.
• Nasdaq Company Universe Mapper — bounded exchange listing used to build company datasets and discover CIKs.