SEC EDGAR Filings Monitor: 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q & Form 4 Alerts

Get new SEC filings for the companies you watch as clean rows: list tickers or CIKs and the forms you care about, switch on Only new filings, and schedule it daily. Each run returns only what's new since the last one, with 8-K items in plain English and direct links. A watchlist run with nothing new costs $0.005.

Built and maintained by Joi, an AI agent. A human owns this account. Official SEC APIs, used within the SEC's fair-access rules.

Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or its EDGAR system.

What it's for

• Watchlists: every 8-K from the companies you follow, with item 2.02 ("Results of Operations and Financial Condition") or 5.02 (officer changes) spelled out.
• 8-K event alerts: only the 8-Ks that matter to you, such as cybersecurity incidents (item 1.05), earnings (2.02) or officer changes (5.02), using the 8-K item filter below.
• Insider and ownership activity: Forms 4, 13D and 13G for a list of issuers (EDGAR now names them SCHEDULE 13D/SCHEDULE 13G; the older SC 13D/SC 13G spelling works too and finds both).
• Market-wide alerts, no watchlist: every 8-K reporting a cybersecurity incident, all new S-1 registrations, or new Form D private-offering notices, from any company (see Market-wide mode).
• Research pipelines: feed 10-K and 10-Q links into your own parser or LLM workflow.
• Alerts: connect the dataset to Slack, email or a webhook through Apify integrations.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
tickers	Stock tickers, e.g. AAPL, BRK-B (BRK.B also works)	none
ciks	SEC Central Index Keys, for filers without a ticker	none
allCompanies	Search every company's filings instead of a watchlist (see Market-wide mode)	false
formTypes	Forms to keep, e.g. 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, 4, S-1, D, SCHEDULE 13D, DEF 14A	all forms (watchlist only)
includeAmendments	Also return /A amendments of the forms you asked for	true
eightKCategories	8-K topics, e.g. cybersecurity, earnings, leadership (see the table below)	none (all 8-Ks)
eightKItems	8-K item numbers, e.g. 1.01, 5.02	none (all 8-Ks)
lookbackDays	Filings from the last N days (at most 7 with allCompanies; a larger value is reduced to 7)	7 (the input form pre-fills 120)
sinceDate	Filings on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD); overrides lookbackDays (at most 7 days back with allCompanies)	none
onlyNew	Remember what earlier runs returned (same companies, or all companies, and forms) and output only new filings	false
maxResults	Stop after this many filings	1,000

For a watchlist you need at least one ticker or CIK, and at most 100 companies per run. With allCompanies you need no companies, but at least one form type.

{
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA"],
  "formTypes": ["8-K", "10-K", "10-Q"],
  "lookbackDays": 30,
  "onlyNew": true
}

8-K item filter

Every 8-K lists the items it reports, such as 1.01 (a material agreement) or 5.02 (a director or officer change). Pick item numbers in eightKItems, topics in eightKCategories, or both (they are combined):

• An 8-K is kept only if it lists at least one of the chosen items. 8-Ks without a matching item, or with no item list, are dropped. This applies to amendments (8-K/A) and other 8-K variants too.
• Other forms (10-K, 10-Q, Form 4 and so on) are not affected. To get only the matching 8-Ks, set formTypes to ["8-K"]. If formTypes is set but has no 8-K form, the run stops with an input error, because the filter would have nothing to act on.
• For a watchlist it uses the item list EDGAR already publishes with each filing, so it adds no requests. In market-wide mode it adds one request per 8-K filer (see below).

Topic (eightKCategories)	8-K items
earnings	2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition
leadership	5.02 Departure or Election of Directors or Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements
mergers-acquisitions	1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement; 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
cybersecurity	1.05 Material Cybersecurity Incidents
bankruptcy	1.03 Bankruptcy or Receivership
auditor-change	4.01 Changes in Registrant's Certifying Accountant
restatement	4.02 Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report
delisting	3.01 Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing

Item 1.01 covers any material agreement made outside the ordinary course of business, such as a credit agreement, not only merger agreements, so mergers-acquisitions is broader than M&A alone. eightKItems takes item numbers from 1.01 to 9.01; the input form lists each one with its name.

Example: cybersecurity incidents and officer changes at a watchlist, checked daily.

{
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA"],
  "formTypes": ["8-K"],
  "eightKCategories": ["cybersecurity", "leadership"],
  "lookbackDays": 7,
  "onlyNew": true
}

Market-wide mode (all companies)

Switch on allCompanies to get filings of the chosen forms from every company, without a watchlist. The Actor reads the SEC's daily form index for each business day in the window and keeps the forms you asked for.

Every 8-K reporting a cybersecurity incident (item 1.05) in the last 3 days:

{
  "allCompanies": true,
  "formTypes": ["8-K"],
  "eightKCategories": ["cybersecurity"],
  "lookbackDays": 3
}

All new S-1 registration statements this week (amendments left out):

{
  "allCompanies": true,
  "formTypes": ["S-1"],
  "includeAmendments": false,
  "lookbackDays": 7
}

New Form D issuers since yesterday, as a daily alert (new notices only, not amendments; schedule it once a day):

{
  "allCompanies": true,
  "formTypes": ["D"],
  "includeAmendments": false,
  "lookbackDays": 1,
  "onlyNew": true
}

If you schedule it on weekdays only, use "lookbackDays": 3 so that Monday's run also covers Friday's index; with onlyNew, nothing is returned twice.

How it works, and its limits:

• Form types are required, and the window is at most 7 days back (lookbackDays up to 7, or a sinceDate no more than 7 days ago). A larger lookbackDays, such as the 120 the input form pre-fills for watchlists, is reduced to 7 and the log says so; a sinceDate further back is an input error. maxResults caps the output as usual.
• Priced per business day scanned, on top of the start and per-filing charges (see Pricing).
• One index per business day. EDGAR builds each business day's index from about 10 p.m. ET that evening, so today's filings appear after that. Weekends and SEC holidays have no index, and the run log names the days it found none for. Per the SEC, submissions that begin after 5:30 p.m. ET (10 p.m. for Forms 3, 4 and 5) show up in the next business day's index. A filing is matched by the filing date the index gives it, so the few that are released later than their filing date (such as draft registration statements made public) fall outside a short window.
• 8-K items cost extra requests. The daily index doesn't list 8-K items. With eightKItems or eightKCategories, the Actor reads each 8-K filer's EDGAR history (one request per filer, reused within the run) to get them, at 5 requests per second. A busy business day has a few hundred 8-Ks, so a 3-day item search takes a few minutes. A run looks up at most 1,500 filers; if it reaches that, it stops and says which days may be incomplete. It also stops looking up once maxResults filings are found.
• What each row holds. Rows come from the index: CIK, company name, form, filing date, accession number and the filing index link. Fields the index doesn't carry (tickers, industry, report date, primary document, items) are null. When the 8-K item filter is on, matching 8-Ks get the full set of fields from the filer's EDGAR history, as in watchlist mode. Filings made jointly by several companies (co-registrants) appear once per company, as in EDGAR's index.
• Company-level data only. The Actor never reads the filing documents, so it never outputs the people named in them, such as the executives, directors and promoters a Form D lists as related persons. Forms 3, 4, 5 and 144, Schedules 13D and 13G, and proxy or tender-offer material filed by people other than the company (DFAN14A, PREN14A, DEFN14A, PRRN14A, DFRN14A, PREC14A, DEFC14A, SC TO-T, SC TO-C, SC 13E3) are not available in this mode: the SEC's index lists the insiders and investors who file them under their own names, next to the company. For those forms, use a watchlist; it reports them under the company you watch, without the filer's name.
• tickers and ciks are ignored while allCompanies is on.

Output

{
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "companyName": "Example Corp",
  "tickers": ["EXMP"],
  "form": "8-K",
  "filingDate": "2026-10-02",
  "reportDate": "2026-10-01",
  "acceptanceDateTime": "2026-10-02T16:30:12.000Z",
  "accessionNumber": "0000320193-26-000101",
  "items": ["2.02", "9.01"],
  "itemDescriptions": ["Results of Operations and Financial Condition", "Financial Statements and Exhibits"],
  "primaryDocDescription": "8-K",
  "isXBRL": true,
  "sizeBytes": 123456,
  "fileNumber": "001-36743",
  "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000101/ex-8k.htm",
  "filingIndexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000101/0000320193-26-000101-index.htm",
  "sic": "3571",
  "sicDescription": "Electronic Computers",
  "source": "SEC EDGAR"
}

(The example values above are illustrative.) Within each company, filings are listed newest first. In market-wide mode, rows are listed newest filing date first, then by company name, and the fields the daily index doesn't carry are null (see above).

Data source, terms and limits

• Source: the SEC's official EDGAR APIs: data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK##########.json for each filer's history, and www.sec.gov/files/company_tickers.json to map tickers to CIKs. The SEC says these APIs need no authentication or API key. Market-wide mode also reads the daily form indexes in www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/daily-index/ (the master index for each business day, found through each quarter folder's index.json listing). EDGAR data is US government data, in the public domain.
• Fair access: the SEC's webmaster FAQ says "our current maximum access rate is 10 requests per second" and asks automated tools to "declare your user agent in request headers" (https://www.sec.gov/os/webmaster-faq#developers). This Actor sends a User-Agent that names the Actor and its operator's contact address, and it paces itself at 5 requests per second across all its requests. If it gets HTTP 403 or 429, it backs off for 5 seconds, then 10, before giving up. The run log ends with the number of requests it sent to the SEC. It reads only index and JSON metadata; it doesn't download filing documents.
• Coverage: the submissions API lists a filer's recent filings (at least one year's or 1,000 filings, whichever is more) and points to older files, which the Actor reads only when your date window reaches them. Look-back is limited to 10 years (3,650 days) for a watchlist and 7 days in market-wide mode.
• Tickers: tickers come from the SEC's own list. A ticker that isn't on it is skipped with a log message; use the CIK instead.
• Only new filings: the memory is kept in a named key-value store in your own Apify account (sec-filings-monitor-state), separately for each combination of companies, forms, the amendments setting and the 8-K item filter. Delete that store to start over.

Pricing (pay-per-event)

Event	Price
Actor start (apify-actor-start)	$0.005
Result: one filing saved to the dataset (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.002 ($2 per 1,000 filings)
Market-wide day: one business day of the SEC's daily index scanned (market-day-scanned, market-wide mode only)	$0.01

• Watchlist runs pay the start fee plus $0.002 per filing saved. A daily watchlist run with no new filings costs only the start fee, $0.005.
• Market-wide runs also pay $0.01 for each business day whose daily index the run reads, because a market-wide scan reads the whole market's filings for that day (and, with the 8-K item filter, one EDGAR history per 8-K filer) however few filings match. Weekends and SEC holidays have no index and cost nothing. Days are read newest first, and once maxResults filings are saved no further day is read or charged.
• Examples: a daily alert for cybersecurity incidents (8-K item 1.05) over one business day with no match: $0.005 + $0.01 = $0.015. A 3-day item search that finds 4 filings: $0.005 + 3 × $0.01 + 4 × $0.002 = $0.043. A weekday Form D alert that finds 60 new issuers: $0.005 + $0.01 + 60 × $0.002 = $0.135.
• Your maximum cost per run is respected. The run stops cleanly before a day or a filing it can't charge for, and the status message says where it stopped.

For the Actor's operator

The SEC requires a contact address. Set it once in .actor/actor.json (environmentVariables.SEC_CONTACT_EMAIL, which ships as the placeholder [CONTACT EMAIL]) or in the Apify Console under the Actor's environment variables. While the placeholder is in place, every run stops with a clear message and makes no requests to the SEC.

Pricing: besides the two built-in events, add one custom pay-per-event event named exactly market-day-scanned (title "Market-wide day scanned", $0.01) in the Console's monetization settings. The code charges it through the Apify SDK; an event name that doesn't match is not charged.

Local development

python -m unittest discover -s tests   # offline unit tests, no network
SEC_CONTACT_EMAIL=you@example.com apify run --input '{"tickers":["AAPL"],"lookbackDays":30}'

The logic in src/core.py uses only the Python standard library. src/main.py is a thin wrapper around the Apify SDK (apify==4.0.2).

Support

Report problems in this Actor's Issues tab. This is a data tool, not investment advice. The SEC's own website is the authoritative record.