SEC EDGAR API: Filings, Financials, Insider Trades

SEC EDGAR API turns U.S. SEC EDGAR data into flat JSON rows: company profiles and filing lists, XBRL financial statements per fiscal year or quarter, Form 4 insider trading transactions, 13F fund holdings, the text of 10-K and 10-Q sections, and alerts for new filings. Everything comes from official sec.gov endpoints, and you do not need an SEC account or an API key.

You pick one mode and a few fields with defaults, so the Actor works the same way in the Apify Console, through the API, on a schedule, in Make, Zapier or n8n, and as a tool for AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

What data can SEC EDGAR API extract?

mode	Give it	One row per	Main fields	Source on sec.gov
company	tickers, CIKs or names	company	profile, SIC code, addresses, former names, latest filings with document links	data.sec.gov/submissions
financials	tickers	company and fiscal period	revenue, gross profit, operating income, net income, EPS, assets, liabilities, equity, cash, operating cash flow, capex, free cash flow, share counts, and the XBRL tag used for each value	data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts
insider-trades	tickers, or nothing for the newest filings market-wide	Form 4 transaction	insider name and role, transaction code, shares, price, value, shares owned after, 10b5-1 flag, footnotes	Form 4 XML in the EDGAR archive
13f-holdings	fund manager names or CIKs	position in the 13F information table	issuer, CUSIP, shares, value, percent of portfolio, put or call, manager, report period	13F XML in the EDGAR archive
filing-text	filing URLs, accession numbers, or tickers and form	document, or one 10-K or 10-Q Item	clean text, section name, length, truncation flag	the filing's main HTML document
watch	tickers and form types	filing that is new since the last run	form, filing date, 8-K items, document links	data.sec.gov/submissions

Rows have a recordType field. Inputs that return nothing produce a free row with recordType info or error that says why, so a run never ends with an empty dataset and no explanation.

How to use SEC EDGAR API

1. Open the Actor on Apify and click Try for free.
2. Choose What to get (mode). The default is the company profile and filings list.
3. Enter tickers, CIKs or names in Companies or funds. For 13F holdings, enter the fund managers. A name takes EDGAR company search's top match, so tickers or CIKs are safer.
4. Set the options for your mode, such as Form types, Periods or Max holdings per fund.
5. Click Start and read the rows from the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.
6. For recurring data, put the same input on a schedule. In watch mode, each run returns only the filings that earlier runs with the same stateKey have not returned.

How much does the EDGAR API cost?

You pay per event.

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.001 per GB of run memory (the default is 512 MB, so $0.001 per run)
Company row	$0.003
Financial row (one fiscal period, or one raw XBRL fact)	$0.002
Insider trade (one Form 4 transaction)	$0.001
13F holding (one position)	$0.0005
Filing text (one document or one 10-K or 10-Q section)	$0.01
New filing (watch mode)	$0.003

info and error rows are free, and so are watch-mode repeats.

Worked examples, from the prices above:

• The prefilled example, two company profiles: $0.001 + 2 x $0.003 = $0.007.
• Eight fiscal years of annual financials for one company: $0.001 + 8 x $0.002 = $0.017.
• 1,000 Form 4 insider transactions: $0.001 + 1,000 x $0.001 = $1.001.
• The top 100 positions of one 13F filing: $0.001 + 100 x $0.0005 = $0.051. A filing with 5,000 positions and maxHoldings set to 0: $2.501.
• The Risk Factors section of one 10-K: $0.001 + $0.01 = $0.011.

You can cap a run with the maximum cost setting. The run stops cleanly when it is reached.

Input

The prefilled example, which returned two company profiles with their latest filings on 2026-10-28:

{ "mode": "company", "companies": ["AAPL", "MSFT"], "formTypes": ["10-K", "10-Q", "8-K"] }

Other inputs, one per mode:

{ "mode": "financials", "companies": ["NVDA"], "periodType": "annual", "maxPeriods": 1 }
{ "mode": "insider-trades", "companies": ["NVDA"], "maxFilings": 3, "transactionCodes": ["S"] }
{ "mode": "13f-holdings", "companies": ["Berkshire Hathaway"], "maxHoldings": 3 }
{ "mode": "filing-text", "companies": ["NVDA"], "formTypes": ["10-K"], "sections": ["1A"], "maxChars": 1000 }
{ "mode": "watch", "companies": ["NVDA", "TSLA"], "formTypes": ["8-K"], "stateKey": "my-watchlist" }

All fields:

Field	Default	Used by
mode	company	all
companies	[]	all; tickers, CIKs or names
formTypes	[]	company, insider-trades (4 and 4/A when empty), filing-text (10-K when empty), watch (all forms when empty)
dateFrom, dateTo	empty	company, insider-trades for listed companies
maxFilings	10	company, insider-trades
periodType	annual	financials: annual, quarterly or both
maxPeriods	8	financials
valueSource	as-reported	financials: as-reported or latest
rawTags	[]	financials
transactionCodes	[]	insider-trades
quarter	empty (latest)	13f-holdings
maxHoldings	100 (0 = all)	13f-holdings
combineSameSecurity	true	13f-holdings
filingUrls	[]	filing-text
sections	[] (whole document)	filing-text
maxChars	50000	filing-text
includeTables	true	filing-text
stateKey	default	watch
initialLookbackDays	7	watch

Output

All rows below are real, from runs on 2026-10-28, with some fields left out to keep them short.

Company profile and filings

{
  "recordType": "company",
  "input": "AAPL",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
  "exchanges": [
    "Nasdaq"
  ],
  "sic": "3571",
  "sicDescription": "Electronic Computers",
  "filerCategory": "Large accelerated filer",
  "stateOfIncorporation": "CA",
  "fiscalYearEnd": "09-26",
  "businessAddress": {
    "street1": "ONE APPLE PARK WAY",
    "street2": null,
    "city": "CUPERTINO",
    "stateOrCountry": "CA",
    "zipCode": "95014"
  },
  "filingsReturned": 10,
  "latestFilings": [
    {
      "form": "10-Q",
      "filingDate": "2026-07-31",
      "reportDate": "2026-06-27",
      "accessionNumber": "0000320193-26-000020",
      "description": "10-Q",
      "items": null,
      "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000020/0000320193-26-000020-index.htm",
      "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000020/aapl-20260627.htm"
    },
    {
      "form": "8-K",
      "filingDate": "2026-07-30",
      "reportDate": "2026-07-30",
      "accessionNumber": "0000320193-26-000018",
      "description": "8-K",
      "items": "2.02,9.01",
      "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000018/0000320193-26-000018-index.htm",
      "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000018/aapl-20260730.htm"
    }
  ]
}

dateFrom and dateTo narrow the filings list. fiscalYearEnd is month and day as the SEC stores it.

XBRL financials

{
  "recordType": "financials",
  "input": "NVDA",
  "ticker": "NVDA",
  "cik": "0001045810",
  "companyName": "NVIDIA CORP",
  "periodType": "annual",
  "fiscalYear": 2026,
  "fiscalPeriod": "FY",
  "periodStart": "2025-01-27",
  "periodEnd": "2026-01-25",
  "currency": "USD",
  "form": "10-K",
  "filedDate": "2026-02-25",
  "accessionNumber": "0001045810-26-000021",
  "amendedBy": null,
  "revenue": 215938000000,
  "grossProfit": 153463000000,
  "operatingIncome": 130387000000,
  "netIncome": 120067000000,
  "epsBasic": 4.93,
  "epsDiluted": 4.9,
  "totalAssets": 206803000000,
  "totalLiabilities": 49510000000,
  "totalEquity": 157293000000,
  "cashAndEquivalents": 10605000000,
  "operatingCashFlow": 102718000000,
  "capex": 6042000000,
  "weightedDilutedShares": 24514000000,
  "sharesOutstanding": 24300000000,
  "sharesOutstandingDate": "2026-02-20",
  "freeCashFlow": 96676000000,
  "sourceTags": {
    "revenue": "us-gaap:Revenues",
    "capex": "us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets"
  },
  "derivedFields": [],
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581026000021/0001045810-26-000021-index.htm"
}

• Periods are matched on each fact's start and end dates, not on the filing's fy and fp labels, because a 10-K repeats two or three earlier years.
• Each metric tries a list of US-GAAP tags, then IFRS tags for 20-F and 40-F filers. sourceTags shows which tag was used for each value.
• Most companies never report Q4 on its own, and 10-Q cash flow statements are year-to-date. Those quarters are computed by subtraction and listed in derivedFields. EPS is not additive, so it is left empty for Q4.
• valueSource: "as-reported" (default) gives each figure as first filed. "latest" uses the most recent filing for that period.
• rawTags, for example ["us-gaap:AccountsPayableCurrent", "dei:EntityPublicFloat"], returns those tags one row per period with unit, form, filed date, accession and SEC frame.

Form 4 insider trading

{
  "recordType": "insider-trade",
  "formType": "4",
  "periodOfReport": "2026-09-21",
  "issuerName": "NVIDIA CORP",
  "issuerTicker": "NVDA",
  "insiderName": "Teter Timothy S.",
  "insiderRole": "Officer (EVP, General Counsel and Sec)",
  "isDirector": false,
  "isOfficer": true,
  "rule10b5One": true,
  "isDerivative": false,
  "securityTitle": "Common Stock",
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-21",
  "transactionCode": "S",
  "transactionDescription": "Open market or private sale",
  "acquiredDisposed": "D",
  "shares": 12483,
  "pricePerShare": 222.1932,
  "valueUsd": 2773637.72,
  "sharesOwnedAfter": 2705637,
  "directOrIndirect": "I",
  "natureOfOwnership": "By Trust",
  "filingDate": "2026-09-23",
  "accessionNumber": "0001696841-26-000014",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000169684126000014/0001696841-26-000014-index.htm",
  "xmlUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000169684126000014/wk-form4_1790196985.xml"
}

• Leave companies empty to read the newest Form 4 filings from EDGAR's "Latest Filings" feed across the market. maxFilings is then the number of filings read, and one filing often holds several transactions.
• Derivative transactions (options, RSUs) are included with isDerivative: true and the underlying security. Holdings-only rows are not returned.
• transactionCodes keeps only some codes. P is an open-market purchase, S a sale.

13F holdings

{
  "recordType": "holding",
  "rank": 1,
  "issuer": "APPLE INC",
  "titleOfClass": "COM",
  "cusip": "037833100",
  "valueUsd": 65950296923,
  "shares": 227917808,
  "sharesType": "SH",
  "putCall": null,
  "investmentDiscretion": "DFND",
  "filedRows": 12,
  "percentOfPortfolio": 22.04,
  "managerName": "Berkshire Hathaway Inc",
  "managerCik": "0001067983",
  "periodOfReport": "2026-06-30",
  "form": "13F-HR",
  "filedDate": "2026-08-14",
  "accessionNumber": "0001193125-26-352200",
  "portfolioValueUsd": 299253556246,
  "positionsInFiling": 89,
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526352200/0001193125-26-352200-index.htm",
  "infoTableUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526352200/56757.xml"
}

• Without quarter you get the latest 13F-HR. Use quarter: "2025-Q4" for an earlier one.
• With combineSameSecurity on (default), rows for the same CUSIP are summed, as in the filedRows field. Turn it off to get rows exactly as filed.
• Values are in dollars. Filings made before 2023-01-03 reported thousands of dollars, and those are multiplied by 1,000.

Filing text and 10-K sections

{
  "recordType": "filing-text",
  "ticker": "NVDA",
  "cik": "0001045810",
  "companyName": "NVIDIA CORP",
  "form": "10-K",
  "filingDate": "2026-02-25",
  "reportDate": "2026-01-25",
  "accessionNumber": "0001045810-26-000021",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581026000021/0001045810-26-000021-index.htm",
  "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581026000021/nvda-20260125.htm",
  "section": "1A",
  "sectionTitle": "Risk Factors",
  "text": "Item 1A. Risk Factors\n\nThe following risk factors should be considered in addition to the other information in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The following risks could harm our business, financial condition, results of operations or reputation, which could cause our stock price to decline. Additional risks, trends and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently believe are immaterial may also harm our business, financial condition, results of operations or reputation.\n\nRisk Factors Summary\n\nRisks Related to Our Industry and Markets\n\n•Failure to meet the evolving needs of our industry and markets may adversely impact our financial results.\n\n•Competition could adversely impact our market share and financial results.\n\nRisks Related to Demand, Supply, and Manufacturing",
  "chars": 794,
  "totalChars": 114640,
  "truncated": true
}

• sections takes Item numbers (1, 1A, 7, 7A, 8) or names (business, risk-factors, mda, market-risk, financial-statements, legal-proceedings, controls). For a 10-Q, mda maps to Part I Item 2 and risk-factors to Part II Item 1A. You can also write P2-1A. 8-K items look like 2.02.
• Text longer than maxChars is cut at a paragraph break and marked truncated, with totalChars giving the full length. A 10-K is about 200,000 to 600,000 characters.
• Tables come out as one line per row with | between cells. With includeTables off, numeric tables are dropped.
• filingUrls accepts EDGAR document URLs, index-page URLs, ix?doc= viewer URLs and bare accession numbers.

New filing alerts

{
  "recordType": "new-filing",
  "input": "TSLA",
  "ticker": "TSLA",
  "cik": "0001318605",
  "companyName": "Tesla, Inc.",
  "form": "8-K",
  "filingDate": "2026-10-21",
  "reportDate": "2026-10-21",
  "acceptanceDateTime": "2026-10-21T20:41:42.000Z",
  "items": "2.02,9.01",
  "description": "8-K",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000162828026066738/0001628280-26-066738-index.htm",
  "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000162828026066738/tsla-20261021.htm",
  "firstRun": true,
  "detectedAt": "2026-10-28T22:02:45.709Z"
}

• Run the same input hourly or daily. Each run returns only filings that runs with the same stateKey have not returned yet.
• The first run for a company reports the last initialLookbackDays days (default 7). Set it to 0 to start from now.
• State is kept in a key-value store named sec-edgar-watch-state in your Apify account.
• If there is nothing new, you get one free info row.

Each run also writes a SUMMARY record to the default key-value store with the rows charged per event, the number of SEC requests and any warnings, such as a filing that had no ownership XML.

What people use the SEC EDGAR API for

• Financial models: standardized annual or quarterly statements without parsing XBRL by hand.
• Insider trading screens: open-market purchases (P) and sales (S) at a list of tickers.
• Fund tracking: 13F holdings for the managers you follow, quarter by quarter.
• Research: Risk Factors or MD&A text pulled from 10-K and 10-Q filings for summarizing or search.
• Alerts: a note in Slack or a spreadsheet when a company files an 8-K.

FAQ

Do I need an SEC API key?

No. The Actor reads public sec.gov endpoints and the EDGAR archive.

Is this the same as the SEC's own EDGAR API?

It uses the SEC's own data (the submissions and companyfacts endpoints, and filing documents from the archive) and reshapes it into rows. The 13F, Form 4 and filing-text modes parse the filing files themselves.

How current is the data?

New filings show up in EDGAR within minutes. The XBRL companyfacts data can lag behind, and for some foreign filers it lags a lot. When that happens the newest annual row is the previous year.

Why are some financial fields empty?

XBRL tags are not consistent across companies. One company tags revenue Revenues, another RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax, and some switch tags between years. The fallback lists cover common cases, not all of them, so check sourceTags before comparing companies. Banks, insurers and REITs often have no tag for some metrics, and those fields are null. Derived quarters, freeCashFlow and a totalLiabilities computed from total liabilities and equity minus equity are calculations, listed in derivedFields. For companies with several share classes, sharesOutstanding can be empty; weightedDilutedShares is usually filled.

Why did section extraction find nothing?

It needs "Item N." headings at the start of a line. Filings with unusual layouts, scanned exhibits or PDF main documents can come back with no sections, and the info row then lists what was found.

Are old 13F filings covered?

13F filings before mid-2013 used text tables and are not parsed.

How do I run it on a schedule or send results to Make, Zapier or n8n?

Add a schedule in Apify Console with your input. In Make, Zapier or n8n, use the Apify integration to run the Actor and read its dataset, or add a webhook to the task. With the JavaScript client: client.actor("fernandosord/sec-edgar-api").call({ mode: "13f-holdings", companies: ["Berkshire Hathaway"] }).

Can an AI agent use it?

Yes. Add the Actor to the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com, with the Actor listed in the tools parameter). The agent sees the input schema, so field names and allowed values come from there. Prompts that work well:

• "Latest 10-K risk factors for AMD": {"mode":"filing-text","companies":["AMD"],"sections":["risk-factors"],"maxChars":20000}
• "Microsoft revenue and free cash flow for the last 8 quarters": {"mode":"financials","companies":["MSFT"],"periodType":"quarterly"}
• "Open-market insider buys at Intel this year": {"mode":"insider-trades","companies":["INTC"],"transactionCodes":["P"],"dateFrom":"2026-01-01","maxFilings":100}

Keep maxChars within the model's context budget. Rows carry filingUrl or documentUrl, so an agent can cite the filing.

Does it follow the SEC's access rules?

Yes. Every request declares a User-Agent that links to this Actor's page. Each run stays at or below 5 requests per second, half the SEC's limit of 10, because several runs can share one Apify IP address. If the SEC slows a run down, it waits and retries. See the SEC's fair access rules. Every row links back to its sec.gov source.

Is this investment advice?

No. The Actor reformats public SEC filings. It does not check them for accuracy, and filers sometimes make tagging errors that only a later amendment fixes.

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