SEC EDGAR Scraper — 10-K, 8-K, Form 4 & 13F

Extract official, structured filings from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) EDGAR system: 10-K annual reports, 8-K material corporate event notifications, Form 4 insider trading transactions, and Form 13F institutional investment manager holdings.

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What It Extracts

This Actor connects directly to SEC EDGAR official repositories and parses both structured filing metadata and deep document payloads:

Form Type	Key Data Fields Extracted
10-K (Annual Report)	Business description, fiscal year end, auditor info, full list of exhibits, direct interactive data (XBRL) links, and primary document HTML/HTM links.
8-K (Current Report / Material Events)	Specific item numbers reported (e.g. Item 1.01 Material Agreements, Item 2.02 Earnings releases, Item 5.02 Officer/Director changes, Item 7.01 Reg FD disclosures, Item 8.01 Other events), standard SEC descriptions, event text, and filing links.
Form 4 (Insider Trading)	Reporting owner (insider) name, CIK, relationship (isOfficer, isDirector, isTenPercentOwner), officer title (CEO, CFO, etc.), transaction dates, transaction codes (P=Purchase, S=Sale, M=Option Exercise, A=Award), security titles, shares transacted, price per share ($), total transaction value ($), and post-transaction share ownership.
13F (Institutional Holdings)	Institutional manager name, CIK, report period date, holdings table entries including CUSIP, issuer name, title of class, market value ($), share count, share type (SH/PRN), investment discretion (SOLE/DFND/OTHR), and voting authority.

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When to Use It

• Quantitative & Equity Research: Track insider buying and selling (Form 4) in real time to detect high-conviction management moves.
• Institutional Portfolio Intelligence: Analyze quarterly 13F filings from hedge funds, mutual funds, and asset managers (Berkshire Hathaway, Bridgewater, BlackRock) to discover portfolio shifts.
• Corporate Event Monitoring: Track earnings releases, material definitive agreements, executive departures, and Reg FD disclosures through 8-K filings.
• Fundamental & AI Analysis: Feed structured 10-K annual reports and exhibits directly into LLMs, RAG pipelines, or financial models.

When NOT to Use It

• If you need real-time streaming exchange ticks or Level 2 order books (use an equity market data feed).
• If you need non-US sovereign regulatory filings (EDGAR covers US public companies and foreign private issuers filing 20-F/6-K).

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
tickers	Array of strings	["AAPL"]	Stock ticker symbols (e.g. AAPL, MSFT, NVDA) or 10-digit SEC CIK numbers (0000320193).
tickerOrCik	String	"AAPL"	Single ticker symbol, CIK, or company name (used if tickers is empty).
formTypes	Array of strings	["10-K", "8-K", "4", "13F"]	Form types to include: 10-K, 8-K, 4, and/or 13F.
includeAmendments	Boolean	true	Include amended filings (10-K/A, 8-K/A, 4/A, 13F-HR/A).
startDate	String	null	Earliest filing date to include (YYYY-MM-DD).
endDate	String	null	Latest filing date to include (YYYY-MM-DD).
maxFilings	Integer	10	Maximum total filings to return across all companies (1–1000). Free tier limit: 5.
maxFilingsPerCompany	Integer	10	Maximum filings per company or CIK (1–200).
extractDetails	Boolean	true	Deeply parse primary documents (Form 4 transactions, 13F holdings, 8-K items).
expandRecords	Boolean	false	When true, flattens sub-records so each individual insider trade or 13F holding is its own dataset row. When false, 1 row per filing with structured arrays.
customUserAgent	String	null	Custom compliant SEC User-Agent header (format: Name contact@domain.com).

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Output Example

Each filing record emitted to the default dataset contains normalized metadata and deep parsed records:

{
  "accessionNumber": "0001140361-26-037584",
  "form": "4",
  "filingDate": "2026-09-22",
  "reportDate": "2026-09-22",
  "acceptanceDateTime": "2026-09-22T18:30:15.000Z",
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
  "entityType": "operating",
  "sic": "3571",
  "sicDescription": "Electronic Computers",
  "primaryDocument": "xslF345X06/form4.xml",
  "primaryDocumentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126037584/form4.xml",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126037584/",
  "secArchiveUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126037584",
  "isAmendment": false,
  "recordType": "filing",
  "reportingOwnerName": "Williams Jeffrey E",
  "reportingOwnerCik": "0001491979",
  "officerTitle": "COO",
  "isDirector": false,
  "isOfficer": true,
  "isTenPercentOwner": false,
  "insiderSummary": {
    "totalPurchasedShares": 0,
    "totalSoldShares": 2399,
    "totalPurchasedValueUsd": 0,
    "totalSoldValueUsd": 815803.94,
    "netValueUsd": -815803.94,
    "transactionCount": 1
  },
  "transactions": [
    {
      "securityTitle": "Common Stock",
      "transactionDate": "2026-09-22",
      "transactionCode": "S",
      "transactionCodeDescription": "Open market or private sale",
      "shares": 2399,
      "pricePerShare": 340.06,
      "totalValueUsd": 815803.94,
      "acquiredDisposed": "D",
      "sharesOwnedFollowing": 489312,
      "directOrIndirect": "D"
    }
  ]
}

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Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing

This Actor uses transparent Pay-Per-Event pricing. Platform usage pass-through is disabled: all compute and network costs are fully covered in the event price.

Event	Free Tier	Bronze (2.5% off)	Silver (5% off)	Gold (20% off)	Description
apify-actor-start	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005	One-time container initialization fee per run.
apify-default-dataset-item	$0.004	$0.0039	$0.0038	$0.0032	Charged for each validated filing record delivered.

Worked Example:

• 10 Apple filings extracted:
  • Start fee: $0.005
  • 10 dataset items: 10 × $0.004 = $0.040
  • Total cost: $0.045

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Compliance & Rate Limits

This Actor strictly complies with official SEC EDGAR access rules:

• Rate limited to well below the SEC threshold of 10 requests per second.
• Sends an identifiable, valid User-Agent header as required by SEC policy.
• All extracted data is public domain record material published by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.