# SEC Filing Full Text Search (`gubidonius/sec-filing-search`) Actor

Search the full text of every SEC filing for a phrase. Find every company that mentioned a technology, a competitor or a risk, with the company name, ticker and a direct link to the document. No key and no login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gubidonius/sec-filing-search.md
- **Developed by:** [Gregory Bolshakov](https://apify.com/gubidonius) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, MCP servers, Agents
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## SEC Filing Full Text Search

Search the full text of every SEC filing for a phrase, and get back the companies that used
it with a direct link to the document.

### What it is for

"Which companies mentioned quantum computing in an 8-K this year." "Who named our competitor
in a risk factor." "Which filings talk about a tariff exposure." The SEC indexes the whole
text of every filing, and this reads that index and hands you a table.

### What you get per match

The company name, its ticker and CIK split into separate columns, the form type, which
exhibit inside the filing matched, the filing date, the business location and a link
straight to the document.

The SEC returns the company as one string with everything glued together:

```
D-Wave Quantum Inc.  (QBTS)  (CIK 0001907982)
```

Splitting that into three usable columns is most of what this Actor does, and it is careful
about it: a company with brackets in its own name does not get a piece of its name read as a
ticker.

### The 10,000 result ceiling

The search stops counting at 10,000 and refuses to page past it. A broad phrase will report
exactly 10000 matches, and that number means "at least 10,000", not "10,000".

The run summary says which kind of number you got, per phrase, in `matchCountIsExact`. When
it is false, add a date range and run the phrase again over shorter windows. A truncated
result set that looks complete is the worst thing a search can hand you, so this Actor says
out loud when it happens rather than letting you find out later.

### Notes

Wrap a phrase in double quotes for an exact match, otherwise the SEC matches the words
separately. A date range needs both ends, because the SEC ignores one on its own.

The same document can match two of your phrases. It is returned once, and billed once.

### Access

The search is free and needs no key. It does ask for a User-Agent that identifies who is
calling, so this Actor sends a real contact address on every request.

# Actor input Schema

## `phrases` (type: `array`):

Each phrase is searched across the full text of every SEC filing. Wrap it in double quotes for an exact match.

## `formTypes` (type: `array`):

Keep only these forms. 8-K is a material event, 10-K the annual report, S-1 an IPO registration. Leave empty for every form.

## `startDate` (type: `string`):

Both ends of the range are needed. The SEC ignores one on its own.

## `endDate` (type: `string`):

Both ends of the range are needed.

## `cik` (type: `string`):

A CIK number, to search inside a single company's filings.

## `maxResultsPerPhrase` (type: `integer`):

The SEC stops paging at 10,000 results whatever you ask for. Narrow with a date range to reach the rest.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "phrases": [
    "\"quantum computing\""
  ],
  "formTypes": [
    "8-K"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerPhrase": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `matches` (type: `string`):

One row per matching document, with the company, the form and a direct link.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

How many matches each phrase had, and whether the count was exact or hit the ceiling.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "phrases": [
        "\"quantum computing\""
    ],
    "formTypes": [
        "8-K"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gubidonius/sec-filing-search").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "phrases": ["\"quantum computing\""],
    "formTypes": ["8-K"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gubidonius/sec-filing-search").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "phrases": [
    "\\"quantum computing\\""
  ],
  "formTypes": [
    "8-K"
  ]
}' |
apify call gubidonius/sec-filing-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,gubidonius/sec-filing-search"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/pxZ0gSOzxQ89WHMbt/builds/QyzbbacFOE1QuJGHX/openapi.json