SEC EDGAR Filings Monitor – 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, S-1, 13F API

What does SEC EDGAR Filings Monitor do?

It watches SEC EDGAR for new filings from the companies you choose (by ticker or CIK) or from all companies (by form type and full-text keywords), and returns one clean row per filing: company, tickers, form, 8-K items with plain-English descriptions, filing and period dates, and direct links to the document and the filing index. Everything comes from the official SEC APIs (data.sec.gov submissions and EDGAR full-text search).

Why use it?

• Monitoring built in. Turn on Only new filings and schedule it: each run returns (and charges for) filings you have not received yet.
• 8-K items explained. 2.02 becomes "Results of Operations and Financial Condition", 5.02 "Departure/Election of Directors or Officers…".
• Tickers or CIKs. AAPL, BRK.B or 320193 all work; tickers are resolved with SEC's official company_tickers.json.
• Full-text keyword search across all filers (e.g. "going concern", "material weakness", "data center") with form and date filters.
• Direct links to the primary document and the filing index — ready for alerts, Slack, Sheets or an AI agent.
• SEC fair-access compliant. ≤ 5 requests/second (SEC allows 10), a declared User-Agent, automatic retries with backoff.
• Low, flat price. $1.50 per 1,000 filings.

How to use

1. Enter tickers or CIKs in companies (or leave empty to search all companies).
2. Choose formTypes (default 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q). 13F expands to 13F-HR and 13F-NT. Amendments (/A) are included by default.
3. Optionally add keywords for full-text search and a date range (lookbackDays or dateFrom/dateTo).
4. Optionally enter your contactEmail; SEC asks automated tools to identify themselves.
5. Run, or schedule (e.g. hourly/daily) with onlyNew on and one stateKey per watchlist.

Input example

{
  "companies": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA", "TSLA"],
  "formTypes": ["8-K", "10-Q", "10-K", "S-1"],
  "includeAmendments": true,
  "lookbackDays": 30,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "big-tech-watchlist"
}

Full-text example (all companies): {"companies": [], "keywords": ["material weakness"], "formTypes": ["10-K", "10-Q"], "lookbackDays": 7}

Output example

{
  "id": "0000320193-26-000030",
  "source": "SEC EDGAR",
  "accession_number": "0000320193-26-000030",
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "company_name": "Apple Inc.",
  "tickers": ["AAPL"],
  "sic": "3571",
  "sic_description": "Electronic Computers",
  "form": "8-K",
  "items": ["2.02", "9.01"],
  "items_description": ["Results of Operations and Financial Condition", "Financial Statements and Exhibits"],
  "filing_date": "2026-09-10",
  "report_date": "2026-09-09",
  "accepted_at": "2026-09-10T20:30:00.000Z",
  "primary_document": "aapl-8k.htm",
  "document_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000030/aapl-8k.htm",
  "filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000030/0000320193-26-000030-index.htm",
  "is_xbrl": true,
  "size_bytes": 12345,
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-21T06:00:00Z"
}

In full-text mode accepted_at, sic_description, is_xbrl and size_bytes are null (not provided by that API).

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.0015 per saved filing ($1.50 per 1,000) plus Apify's tiny default start fee. Set Max cost per run in the run options; the Actor stops cleanly at your limit and keeps what it saved.

Data source and license

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR (data.sec.gov, efts.sec.gov, www.sec.gov/Archives). EDGAR filings are public U.S. government records. Access follows the SEC's fair access policy (max 10 requests/second, declared User-Agent). This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SEC.

Limitations

• Company mode checks the "recent" filing history the SEC publishes per company (at least one year or 1,000 filings); lookbackDays is capped at 365.
• Full-text search covers documents indexed by EDGAR full-text search (2001 onward) and returns at most 10,000 documents per query.
• Filing contents (financial statements, exhibits) are linked, not downloaded.

Personal data

Forms that report individuals' holdings or trades (3, 4, 5, 144, SC 13D, SC 13G) are not supported, and filers that look like individuals are skipped. Company addresses and phone numbers are not output.

Your responsibility

You are responsible for using the data in line with SEC policies and applicable law. Not investment advice.

AI disclosure

This Actor's code and description were created with generative AI (Claude) and are verified by automated tests.

Changelog

• 1.0 – First release: ticker/CIK watchlists, full-text search, 8-K item descriptions, monitoring mode, PPE pricing.