SEC EDGAR Filing Change-Monitor

What does SEC EDGAR Filing Change-Monitor do?

Know the moment a company you're watching files something material with the SEC, without checking SEC EDGAR yourself. Give it a list of tickers or CIK numbers, and it reports only the filings that are new since the last run: 8-Ks (major corporate events), Form 4s (insider trades), and 13-D/G filings (large ownership stakes). Each filing comes with a plain-English note on why it might matter, a direct link to the real document, and the filing date.

Runs on SEC's own free, public API. No scraping, no API key, no anti-bot cat-and-mouse.

Why use SEC EDGAR Filing Change-Monitor?

• Investors and traders. Catch a material 8-K or insider trade the moment it's filed, instead of checking EDGAR manually or waiting for financial news to pick it up.
• IR and comms teams. Track what filings competitors and peer companies are making.
• Law firms and compliance teams. Monitor a client or counterparty's filing activity.
• AI agents and automated research tools. Schedule this Actor and get back only what changed, ready to feed into a report or alert.

How to use SEC EDGAR Filing Change-Monitor

1. Click Try for free and open the Input tab.
2. Add the tickers (e.g. AAPL, TSLA) or SEC CIK numbers you want to watch.
3. (Optional) Adjust which filing types count as material. Defaults to 8-K, Form 4, and SC 13D/13G.
4. Click Start. The first run reports each company's most recent matching filings (capped, so it doesn't dump years of history).
5. Schedule it to run daily (or however often you like) via Apify's built-in Schedules. Every run after the first reports only what's new since the last one.

Input

• Companies to watch. Tickers or CIK numbers.
• Filing types to watch. Which SEC form types count as material.
• Max filings per company on first run. Caps the very first run's history dump.

See the Input tab for the full schema.

Output

Each new filing is one item in the dataset:

{
  "company": "Apple Inc.",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "formType": "8-K",
  "filingDate": "2026-07-30",
  "accessionNumber": "0000320193-26-000018",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000018/aapl-20260730.htm",
  "summary": "The company reported quarterly/annual results (earnings); and filed financial statements or exhibits with this report.",
  "summaryMethod": "rule-based-v1"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Description
company	Company name as registered with the SEC
ticker	Stock ticker
cik	SEC's Central Index Key for the company
formType	The SEC form type (8-K, 4, SC 13D, SC 13G, etc.)
filingDate	Date the filing was made
accessionNumber	SEC's unique ID for this specific filing
filingUrl	Direct link to the actual filing document
summary	Plain-English note on why this filing might matter
summaryMethod	How the summary was generated (see note below)

Pricing / Cost estimation

Pay-per-event, priced per new filing detected and summarized, not a flat subscription. As a rough guide: watching 10 companies on a daily schedule typically costs somewhere around $10 to $20 a month, most of that from Form 4 insider-trade filings, which tend to be the most frequent form type. Quiet companies with few material filings cost less, active ones with a lot of insider trading or 8-Ks cost more. Exact per-event pricing is set on the Actor's page.

Tips or Advanced options

• Start with a short watchlist and a daily schedule; expand once you know it's catching what you care about.
• 8-K filings carry SEC "Item" codes (e.g. 5.02 = officer/director departure). This Actor already translates the common ones into plain English.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

• Is this legal to use commercially? Yes. SEC EDGAR filings are U.S. federal government works, public domain under 17 U.S.C. §105.
• Summary quality note (v1): summaries are currently generated from SEC's own filing metadata (form type plus disclosed Item codes), not a full read of the filing text. This already correctly explains why most 8-Ks and Form 4s matter. Deeper, LLM-generated summaries of the actual filing text are a planned enhancement.
• Found an issue or have a request? Use the Issues tab. Real feedback shapes what gets built next.
• Found this useful? If this saved you a manual EDGAR check, a one-line review takes 20 seconds and helps a lot.