SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search & Monitor

SEC full-text search across all SEC filings by keyword — a SEC filing keyword monitor powered by the official SEC EDGAR full-text search API, returning every filing that mentions your term.

Built for hedge funds, IR teams, compliance, and journalists who need to search all SEC filings for a keyword — a competitor's name, "data breach", "going concern", a product, a person — and get back a structured list of every matching filing. Schedule it and it becomes a SEC filing keyword monitor that surfaces new hits as companies file.

Data comes from the official SEC EDGAR full-text search API — no API key required. This actor runs SEC full-text search over all filings, then maps each hit to its company, form, filing date, CIK, accession number, and a constructed filing URL.

What you get

Field	Description
query	The keyword query that produced this hit
form	Form type of the matching filing (e.g. "8-K", "10-K")
company	Company name on the filing
cik	SEC Central Index Key of the filer
filedAt	Filing date of the matching filing
accessionNumber	SEC accession number for the filing
fileUrl	Constructed link to the filing

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	string (required)	"data breach"	Keyword or phrase to search across all SEC filings
forms	array	[]	Restrict to specific form types (empty = all forms)
startDate	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	(optional)	Earliest filing date
endDate	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	(optional)	Latest filing date
maxItems	integer	200	Maximum number of matching filings to return

Example input

{
  "query": "data breach",
  "forms": ["8-K", "10-K"],
  "startDate": "2025-01-01",
  "endDate": "2025-06-01",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Example run output

{
  "query": "data breach",
  "form": "8-K",
  "company": "Acme Software Inc.",
  "cik": "0001234567",
  "filedAt": "2025-04-22",
  "accessionNumber": "0001234567-25-000045",
  "fileUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1234567/000123456725000045/0001234567-25-000045-index.htm"
}

Use cases

• Hedge funds — run SEC full-text search for catalysts, risk language, or named entities across all filings before they hit the news.
• IR teams — set up a SEC filing keyword monitor on competitor names, products, or your own company's mentions.
• Compliance teams — search all SEC filings for risk terms ("data breach", "material weakness", "going concern") across your universe.
• Journalists — surface every filing that mentions a person, company, or phrase, with direct links to the source documents.

vs AlphaSense and other enterprise filing-search platforms

Enterprise filing-search platforms like AlphaSense are seat-licensed at enterprise prices. This actor gives you SEC full-text search across all SEC filings, pay-per-result, with no seat license — point it at a keyword and pull every matching filing.

Honest caveat: there is no NLP, sentiment, or smart-synonym layer here — it is the raw keyword-hit feed straight from SEC's full-text search index. If you want analyst-grade semantic search, this complements it; if you just need a fast, cheap SEC filing keyword monitor, this is it.

Pricing

Pay per result — you are billed only for the matching filings returned to your dataset.

Keywords

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