SEC EDGAR Filing Monitor - Search + New-Filing Alerts

Search and monitor SEC filings through EDGAR's official free JSON APIs. Track any company's filings by ticker or CIK with new-since-last-run alerts, or run full-text search across every filing in EDGAR. Each result is clean filing metadata plus the canonical SEC document URL.

No API key, no scraping. These are the SEC's own data endpoints, so the actor is fast, accurate, and stable. Tickers resolve to CIK automatically.

Two modes

Company mode - pass tickers and/or ciks. You get each company's recent filings, filtered by form type and date. Turn on monitor and run on a schedule to get only the filings that are new since the last run (isNew: true).

Full-text mode - pass a query. You get matching filings from EDGAR's full-text index, across all companies, with optional form and date filters.

The two can be combined in one run.

What you get

Company-mode filing:

{
  "type": "filing",
  "company": "Apple Inc.",
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "form": "8-K",
  "filingDate": "2026-04-30",
  "reportDate": "2026-04-30",
  "accessionNumber": "0000320193-26-000011",
  "primaryDocument": "aapl-20260430.htm",
  "primaryDocDescription": "8-K",
  "isXBRL": true,
  "isNew": true,
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000011/aapl-20260430.htm",
  "source": "SEC EDGAR (official submissions API)",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-06-11T02:18:00.000Z"
}

Full-text search hit:

{
  "type": "search-hit",
  "query": "artificial intelligence risk factors",
  "company": "D-Wave Quantum Inc. (QBTS) (CIK 0001907982)",
  "cik": "0001907982",
  "form": "10-K",
  "filingDate": "2026-02-24",
  "accessionNumber": "0001193125-26-027198",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1907982/000119312526027198/...",
  "source": "SEC EDGAR full-text search"
}

Inputs

• tickers / ciks: companies to pull filings for (company mode).
• query: full-text search phrase (full-text mode).
• forms: restrict to form types like 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1. Empty = all.
• sinceDate: company mode, only filings on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
• maxFilingsPerCompany / maxHits: output caps.
• monitor: flag filings not seen in the previous run.
• snapshotGroup: namespace so separate watchlists track independently.

Use cases

• Filing alerts: 8-K and 10-Q watch on a portfolio - schedule daily, alert on new filings
• Event-driven research: catch S-1s, M&A 8-Ks, or 13D/G filings as they hit
• Theme screening: full-text search across all filings for a topic or phrase
• Data pipelines: a clean, deduped filing feed with canonical document URLs
• AI agents: ask "latest 10-K for AAPL" or "who filed about X" through the standby API

API / Standby mode for AI agents

Call the actor as a synchronous HTTP endpoint:

GET /?ticker=AAPL&forms=10-K
GET /?cik=320193
GET /?q=artificial%20intelligence

Returns the result immediately. Works as a tool for agent frameworks that support Apify actors.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.0005
Per filing / search hit	$0.001
Per new-filing alert	$0.01
API call (standby)	$0.02

Monitoring 50 tickers daily for new filings is roughly $5-15/month depending on filing volume.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. EDGAR's APIs are free and open. The actor identifies itself with a descriptive User-Agent per the SEC's fair-access policy.

Do you return personal data? No. The actor outputs corporate filing metadata (company, form, dates, accession, document URL) and does not fetch filing document bodies. It links to the public SEC document rather than extracting its contents.

How do tickers map to filings? The actor loads the SEC's official ticker-to-CIK map (refreshed weekly) and resolves each ticker automatically. You can also pass CIKs directly.

How does new-filing detection work? With monitor on, the actor remembers the accession numbers it has seen per company and flags any it has not. Run it on a schedule and you get a clean stream of new filings.

CSV export? Every Apify dataset exports as CSV, JSON, Excel, or via API.