SEC EDGAR Filings Intelligence

Get SEC filings — 10-K annual reports, 10-Q quarterlies, 8-K material events, Form 4 insider trades, Form D private funding rounds, S-1 IPO registrations, and more — straight from the official SEC EDGAR data API. No scraping, no browser, no CAPTCHAs, no blocks: this Actor talks directly to data.sec.gov and efts.sec.gov, the same public JSON API that SEC itself publishes for developers. That means it never breaks when SEC redesigns their website, and it fully complies with SEC's terms of use.

What it does

Two modes, one Actor:

• Lookup mode — give it a list of companies (stock ticker, CIK, or company name) and it returns their recent filings, filtered by form type and date range, each with a direct link to the filing index and the primary document.
• Search mode — give it a keyword and it full-text searches across every filing on EDGAR (millions of documents), optionally restricted to specific form types and a date range. Great for finding every Form D that mentions a specific investor, product category, or competitor — a live feed of newly-funded companies.

Who this is for

• Investors & analysts tracking insider buying/selling (Form 4) or new 10-K/10-Q releases for a watchlist of tickers.
• Sales & lead-gen teams monitoring Form D filings for newly-funded startups matching a keyword (e.g. "SaaS", "biotech", a specific investor name) — a fresh, low-competition source of outbound leads.
• Researchers & journalists who need structured access to specific filings without hand-navigating EDGAR's search UI.
• Fintech / data products that need a reliable, ToS-compliant filings feed to build on top of, without maintaining their own SEC scraper.

Input

Field	Description	Default
mode	lookup (by company) or search (full-text keyword)	lookup
identifiers	Tickers, CIKs, or company names (lookup mode)	["AAPL", "TSLA", "NVDA"]
formTypes	Form types to include, e.g. 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, 4, D, S-1. Empty = all types	["10-K","10-Q","8-K","4","D"]
keyword	Full-text search phrase (search mode)	—
dateFrom / dateTo	YYYY-MM-DD filing-date bounds	none
maxItemsPerCompany	Cap per company in lookup mode	20
maxItems	Hard cap on total results for the run	200
contactEmail	Required. Your email, used only in the outgoing User-Agent header, as required by SEC's fair-access policy. Never stored or shared beyond that request.	—

The default input runs out of the box (once you fill in contactEmail) and returns real filings for Apple, Tesla, and NVIDIA.

Output example

{
  "mode": "lookup",
  "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "formType": "4",
  "filingDate": "2026-09-17",
  "reportDate": "2026-09-15",
  "accessionNumber": "0001140361-26-037020",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126037020/0001140361-26-037020-index.htm",
  "primaryDocumentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126037020/xslF345X06/form4.xml",
  "matchedIdentifier": "AAPL",
  "matchedBy": "ticker"
}

Pricing

Pay-per-event:

• Actor start — flat fee per run.
• Filing result — small fee per filing returned (lookup or search mode).

No charge for companies that don't resolve, empty searches, or failed lookups — you only pay for filings actually delivered. See the Actor's Pricing tab for exact rates.

FAQ

Do I need a SEC API key? No — SEC's EDGAR data API is free and keyless. You only need to provide your own contact email, which SEC requires in the User-Agent header of every request (this is SEC's rule, not ours — see their developer FAQ).

Why is this more reliable than a browser-based EDGAR scraper? Because it doesn't scrape HTML at all — it calls the same JSON API SEC provides for machine access. There's nothing to break when EDGAR's front-end changes, and no risk of IP blocks or CAPTCHAs.

Can I search filings from before 2001? Full-text search only covers filings from 2001 onward (SEC's own limitation). Lookup mode returns each company's most recent filings as listed in their submissions history.

Does this only cover annual/quarterly reports? No — set formTypes to any SEC form: 10-K/10-Q/8-K (reports), 4 (insider trades), D (private funding rounds / Reg D offerings), S-1 (IPO registration), 13F (institutional holdings), and more. Leave formTypes empty to get everything.

Is this legal? Yes. SEC EDGAR is public U.S. government data, explicitly published via a free API for third-party use. No login walls, no ToS prohibiting automated access to this API.