# SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper & Monitor (8-K, 10-K, Form 4) (`kempt_horizon_yzk/sec-edgar-filings`) Actor

Search and monitor SEC EDGAR filings from official SEC endpoints. Full-text search, tickers or CIKs, form types (8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, S-1, 13D, Form 4, D), dates, SIC, state. 8-K item names, document links. Monitor mode returns only new filings. $0.002/filing.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/kempt_horizon_yzk/sec-edgar-filings.md
- **Developed by:** [Kempt Horizon Data](https://apify.com/kempt_horizon_yzk) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Automation, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## 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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper & Monitor: 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, S-1, Form 4 (No Key)

Get **SEC EDGAR filings** as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. Search the **full text of every filing since 2001**, or pull filings by **ticker, CIK, form type, filing date, industry (SIC) and state**. Each filing includes the company, tickers, CIK, form, filing and period dates, **8-K item numbers with plain-English names**, and direct links to the primary document and filing index. Turn on **monitor mode**, schedule it, and get only the filings that are new since your last run.

Data comes from the **official SEC EDGAR full-text search and ticker endpoints** (the same ones that power sec.gov search). No API key, no login, and requests stay well under the SEC's fair-access rate limit.

### For AI agents (MCP / API) quick reference

- **Use when:** you need recent or historical SEC filings for companies, funds or insiders: 8-K material events, 10-K/10-Q reports, S-1/424B IPO filings, 13D/13G stakes, Form 4 insider trades, Form D private raises, or a full-text phrase search ("going concern", "material weakness", "cybersecurity incident").
- **Don't use for:** XBRL financial statement numbers, stock prices, or non-US filings.
- **Minimal input:** `{"forms": ["8-K"], "filedLastDays": 1, "maxItems": 20}` or `{"tickers": ["AAPL"], "maxItems": 10}`. All fields are optional.
- **Output:** one dataset item per filing: `accessionNumber`, `form`, `fileDate`, `periodEnding`, `companyName`, `ticker`, `cik`, `items`, `itemDescriptions`, `sicCodes`, `businessStates`, `primaryDocumentUrl`, `filingIndexUrl`, `matchedDocuments`.
- **Price:** $0.001 per run + **$0.002 per filing**. 20 filings cost about $0.04. Pay per event only, limited permissions, so agentic payments (x402, Skyfire, Apify AGI token) work.
- **MCP:** add `https://mcp.apify.com?tools=kempt_horizon_yzk/sec-edgar-filings` to your MCP client.

### What can this SEC EDGAR scraper do?

- ✅ **Full-text search** across filings and exhibits since 2001, with exact phrases
- ✅ **Company filters**: tickers (resolved with the SEC's official ticker list) or CIK numbers, including funds and private issuers
- ✅ **Form filters**: 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, S-1, 424B4, SC 13D, 13F-HR, Form 4, Form D, DEF 14A and every other EDGAR form (amendments included)
- ✅ **Date, SIC industry and state filters**
- ✅ **8-K items decoded**: 1.05 becomes "Material Cybersecurity Incidents", 5.02 becomes "Departure/Election of Directors or Officers"
- ✅ **Monitor mode**: remembers filings in a key-value store and returns only new or changed ones, perfect for a Slack, email or Zapier alert
- ✅ **Pay only for results**: filings removed by your filters are never charged
- ✅ Retries with exponential backoff and polite rate limiting

### Who uses it?

Hedge funds and equity analysts watching 8-Ks, investor relations and competitive intelligence teams, M\&A and IPO researchers, compliance and risk teams screening for going-concern or cybersecurity disclosures, fintech apps and newsletters, and AI agents that need fresh filings.

### How much does it cost?

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| Actor start | $0.001 |
| SEC filing | **$0.002** |

A daily monitor that finds 50 new 8-Ks in your sector costs about $0.10 a day. 1,000 filings cost $2. Set a **maximum cost per run** and the Actor stops cleanly when it gets there.

### How to use it

1. Click **Try for free**. The example input (8-K filings from the last 3 days, 20 results) returns results right away.
2. Add tickers, a full-text phrase, form types, SIC prefixes or states.
3. Click **Start** and download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read them with the API.
4. For alerts, tick **Only new since last run**, give the monitor a name, and add a **Schedule**. Connect Slack, email, Zapier, Make or a webhook through Apify integrations.

### Input example

```json
{
  "query": "\"material cybersecurity incident\"",
  "forms": ["8-K"],
  "filedLastDays": 30,
  "sicCodes": ["73"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "cyber-8k-monitor"
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
  "accessionNumber": "0002007855-26-000081",
  "form": "8-K",
  "fileDate": "2026-10-15",
  "periodEnding": "2026-10-09",
  "cik": "0002007855",
  "companyName": "Venture Global, Inc.",
  "ticker": "VG",
  "companies": [
    {
      "name": "Venture Global, Inc.",
      "cik": "0002007855",
      "tickers": [
        "VG"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "items": [
    "1.01",
    "8.01",
    "9.01"
  ],
  "itemDescriptions": [
    "Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement",
    "Other Events",
    "Financial Statements and Exhibits"
  ],
  "sicCodes": [
    "4924"
  ],
  "businessStates": [
    "VA"
  ],
  "businessLocations": [
    "Arlington, VA"
  ],
  "incorporationStates": [
    "DE"
  ],
  "fileNumbers": [
    "001-42486"
  ],
  "primaryDocumentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2007855/000200785526000081/vg-20261009.htm",
  "filingIndexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2007855/000200785526000081/0002007855-26-000081-index.htm",
  "matchedDocuments": [
    {
      "file": "vg-20261009.htm",
      "type": "8-K",
      "description": "8-K",
      "sequence": 1,
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2007855/000200785526000081/vg-20261009.htm"
    }
  ],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-15T13:15:01.908Z"
}
```

### FAQ

**Do I need an SEC API key?** No. EDGAR is free and public. You can optionally add a contact email, which the SEC fair-access policy recommends, to the User-Agent.

**How fresh is the data?** Live. Filings show up within minutes of being accepted by EDGAR.

**How far back can I search?** Full-text search covers 2001 to today. One run can page through up to 10,000 search results; narrow the dates for more.

**Is this legal?** EDGAR filings are public US government records. The Actor uses official endpoints, honors robots.txt and stays far below the SEC's 10 requests per second limit.

**Related Actors:** [USAspending.gov Federal Awards](https://apify.com/kempt_horizon_yzk/usaspending-awards) for government contract revenue, and [Federal Register Scraper](https://apify.com/kempt_horizon_yzk/federal-register-documents) for new regulations.

Built and maintained by **Kempt Horizon Data**. Found a bug or need a field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab and we usually reply within a day.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Optional. Searches the full text of filings and exhibits (since 2001). Use quotes for phrases, e.g. "going concern" or "material weakness".

## `forms` (type: `array`):

Optional, e.g. 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, S-1, 424B4, SC 13D, 13F-HR, 4, D, DEF 14A. Amendments (8-K/A) are included.

## `tickers` (type: `array`):

Optional company tickers, e.g. AAPL, TSLA. Resolved to CIKs with the SEC's official ticker list.

## `ciks` (type: `array`):

Optional SEC Central Index Keys (with or without leading zeros). Works for funds, private issuers and insiders too.

## `filedLastDays` (type: `integer`):

Optional. If no query, ticker or CIK is given and no dates are set, the last 7 days are used.

## `filedFrom` (type: `string`):

Optional start date. Ignored when 'Filed in last N days' is set.

## `filedTo` (type: `string`):

Optional end date. Defaults to today.

## `sicCodes` (type: `array`):

Optional industry filter, e.g. 2834 (pharma), 73 (business services), 60 (banks). Prefixes match.

## `states` (type: `array`):

Optional two-letter state codes. Matches business address state or state of incorporation.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum filings to save (and pay for). Up to 10,000 search results per run.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remembers filings already returned for the same filters (or monitor name) in a key-value store and returns only new or changed ones. Schedule it for alerts.

## `stateKey` (type: `string`):

Optional name for the monitor state, so several schedules keep separate memories.

## `contactEmail` (type: `string`):

Optional. Added to the User-Agent as the SEC fair-access policy recommends. Not stored or shared otherwise.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "forms": [
    "8-K"
  ],
  "filedLastDays": 3,
  "maxItems": 20,
  "onlyNew": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `filings` (type: `string`):

No description

## `all` (type: `string`):

No description

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "forms": [
        "8-K"
    ],
    "filedLastDays": 3,
    "maxItems": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("kempt_horizon_yzk/sec-edgar-filings").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 = {
    "forms": ["8-K"],
    "filedLastDays": 3,
    "maxItems": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("kempt_horizon_yzk/sec-edgar-filings").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 '{
  "forms": [
    "8-K"
  ],
  "filedLastDays": 3,
  "maxItems": 20
}' |
apify call kempt_horizon_yzk/sec-edgar-filings --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/U1ez6q1ZZvMBNC4o3/builds/rCFhZDGqAWeJa2sD4/openapi.json