India SEBI Filings Tracker

The Bloomberg / S&P CapitalIQ / Refinitiv Workspace alternative for Indian regulatory filings. Pull every Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP), Red Herring Prospectus (RHP), rights-issue letter of offer, SAST takeover offer, share buyback (tender + open-market), debt offer document (NCD / corporate bond), REIT issue, InvIT public / private / rights issue, QIP placement, and processing-status pipeline record from India's Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) — the Indian SEC equivalent — in a single structured dataset, at less than 1% of the cost of a Bloomberg, S&P CapitalIQ, Refinitiv Eikon, or LSEG Workspace seat.

Built for Indian institutional investors (DIIs, MFs, AMCs, FPIs), domestic and foreign equity analysts covering Indian large-cap / mid-cap / small-cap / SME, M&A bankers tracking takeover SAST disclosures, financial journalists (Mint, ET, BS, BQ Prime, MoneyControl, Bloomberg Quint) covering IPO season, IPO research desks publishing pre-listing notes, compliance officers monitoring substantial-acquisition events, VC / PE deal teams sourcing late-stage exits, debt-capital-markets desks tracking NCD issuance pipelines, REIT / InvIT specialists tracking Indian alternative-asset issuance, and quant funds backtesting IPO momentum or post-listing drift on Indian equities who need clean, programmatic, structured access to SEBI's public filings register without paying $24,000/year per terminal license.

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Why SEBI matters

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI, भारतीय प्रतिभूति और विनिमय बोर्ड) is India's statutory securities-market regulator, established in 1988 and granted statutory powers under the SEBI Act 1992. SEBI plays the same role in India that the US SEC, UK FCA, Hong Kong SFC, Australia ASIC, Singapore MAS, and Japan FSA play in their respective jurisdictions: protect investors, develop the market, regulate intermediaries, and supervise public issuances and disclosures.

What this means in practice for institutional research workflows:

• Every Indian main-board IPO must file a Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) with SEBI before listing on BSE or NSE — covering everything from the largest LIC ($21B in May 2022), Reliance Jio Platforms, and Adani group offerings down to small SME issues. India saw ~270 main-board + SME IPOs in 2024 and the 2025-2026 pipeline is broader still: Reliance Jio, Reliance Retail, Tata Capital, Tata Play, BYJU's parent Think & Learn, OYO, PhonePe, Ola Electric, Swiggy, Boat Lifestyle, FirstCry, MobiKwik, OfBusiness, Honasa Consumer (Mamaearth), Whitehat Jr, Carwale-BikeWale, PharmEasy, Acko, CarTrade, Snapdeal, Vishal Mega Mart, NSDL, Hexaware, and dozens more.
• Every substantial acquisition of 5% or more in a listed company triggers a SAST (SEBI Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) letter of offer — the closest SEBI-published proxy for insider / shareholder disclosure events. This is the canonical data source for tracking promoter-group consolidation, hostile takeovers (rare in India but increasingly relevant), strategic stakebuilding by FIIs / FPIs, and family-business control fights.
• Every share buyback by a listed Indian company must file with SEBI either as a tender offer (BUYBACK-TENDER) or via open-market through stock exchanges (BUYBACK-OPEN-MARKET) — the canonical signal of corporate capital-return policy. IT majors (TCS, Wipro, Infosys, HCL Tech) have historically been the heaviest buyback issuers.
• Every NCD / corporate bond / debenture issue files a Debt Offer Document — covering Bajaj Finance, Aditya Birla Finance, L&T Finance, HDFC, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services, Shriram Finance, Muthoot Finance, IIFL, JM Financial, and the broader NBFC / corporate-debt universe.
• Every REIT / InvIT issue — public, private, or rights — is captured: Embassy REIT, Mindspace REIT, Brookfield India REIT, Nexus Select Trust, Powergrid InvIT, IndiGrid InvIT, IRB InvIT, Bharat Highways InvIT, India Infrastructure Trust, and the broader Indian alternative-asset issuance pipeline.
• Every QIP (Qualified Institutional Placement) routes through SEBI's processing-status pipeline — the favoured Indian primary-market vehicle for follow-on equity raises by already-listed companies.

For any investor, banker, journalist, compliance officer, or research desk running an India strategy, clean structured access to SEBI's filings register is non-negotiable. This actor is the cheapest reliable JSON source you can plug into your pipeline — billed at $0.10 per filing, matching the premium institutional-disclosure tier set for the SEC Form 13F Tracker Pro.

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What you get per filing

Every record returned is a complete SEBI filing snapshot pulled directly from SEBI's official public-listing pages (sebi.gov.in/sebiweb/home/HomeAction.do). No HTML scraping, no anti-bot battles, no cookie warm-up needed — these are the same static-HTML pages that power the public-facing investor pages.

• filing_id — the SEBI internal filing ID extracted from the detail-page URL (e.g. 101469 for Gaurik Fashions Limited's May 2026 DRHP)
• company_name — the cleaned, normalized issuer / acquirer / offeror name (strips trailing - DRHP, - RHP, - Letter of Offer, - Corrigendum to DRHP - 2, etc. tags)
• filing_type — inferred from the visible SEBI title: DRHP, RHP, UDRHP, ABRIDGED-PROSPECTUS, RIGHTS-LOO, RIGHTS-ISSUE, TAKEOVER-LOO, BUYBACK, TENDER-OFFER, INVIT, REIT, DEBT-OFFER, QIP, MUNICIPAL-DEBT, CORRIGENDUM, or category default
• filing_date — ISO-8601 date the filing was published on SEBI (parsed from SEBI's Month DD, YYYY format)
• sebi_url — deep-link to the SEBI detail page (always present)
• pdf_url — direct link to the abridged-prospectus / letter-of-offer PDF when SEBI publishes one inline (present for ~60-80% of DRHP / RHP rows; always present for SME IPOs filed since mid-2024)
• summary — one-sentence human-readable summary (e.g. "Incred Holdings Limited filed a UDRHP with SEBI on 2026-05-14 under the Public Issues (DRHP / RHP / UDRHP) register.")
• party_role — issuer (default for DRHP / RHP / Rights / Debt / REIT / InvIT / QIP), acquirer (SAST takeover offers), issuer-buyback (tender / open-market buyback), or promoter
• sector — heuristic sector inference from the company name (Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Pharmaceuticals, Information Technology, Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, Metals & Mining, Cement, Construction & Engineering, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Hospitality, Retail, Food & FMCG, Apparel & Textiles, Chemicals, Agriculture, Automotive, Logistics & Shipping, Aviation, Defence, Media & Entertainment, Gaming, Education, Paper & Packaging, Electrical Equipment, Electronics, Semiconductors, REIT, InvIT, Public Sector / Muni)
• category — the SEBI register the filing was scraped from (DRHP / RHP / RIGHTS-ISSUE / TAKEOVER / BUYBACK-TENDER / BUYBACK-OPEN-MARKET / DEBT-OFFER / PROCESSING-STATUS / INVIT-PUBLIC / INVIT-PRIVATE / REIT / QIP / aliases)
• category_label — the human-readable SEBI section name
• title_raw — the unparsed SEBI title cell (preserved for downstream regex / NLP)
• source — always sebi.gov.in
• country — always India
• regulator — always SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India)
• scraped_at — ISO-8601 UTC timestamp on every record

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Inputs

Input	Type	Default	What it does
filing_types	string[]	["DRHP"]	Which SEBI register(s) to sweep. See enum below.
company_filter	string[]	[]	Optional case-insensitive substrings on company name (e.g. ["reliance", "adani", "tata"]).
days_back	integer	90	Look-back window in days (1-730).
max_filings	integer	100	Hard cap on filings returned (1-5000).
start_date	string	""	Optional ISO-8601 date floor (overrides days_back).
end_date	string	""	Optional ISO-8601 date ceiling.
sector_filter	string	""	Case-insensitive substring on inferred sector.
status_filter	string	""	Case-insensitive substring on title_raw / filing_type / category_label.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify default	Standard Apify proxy block.

Supported filing_types tokens

• DRHP / RHP / PUBLIC-ISSUE — main-board + SME IPO offer documents
• RIGHTS-ISSUE — letter of offer for rights issues
• TAKEOVER / SHAREHOLDER-DISCLOSURE / INSIDER-TRADE-DISCLOSURE — SAST substantial-acquisition letters of offer (the SEBI-published proxy for shareholder / insider disclosure events)
• BUYBACK-TENDER — share buyback via tender offer
• BUYBACK-OPEN-MARKET — share buyback via open market through stock exchanges
• DEBT-OFFER — NCD / corporate bond / debenture offer documents
• PROCESSING-STATUS / QIP — every offer doc currently in SEBI review pipeline (QIP placements route here)
• REIT — REIT public issues
• INVIT-PUBLIC / INVIT-PRIVATE — InvIT public / private issues
• ALL — sweeps every register

Recipe examples

Recent IPO DRHPs (last 90 days):

{ "filing_types": ["DRHP"], "days_back": 90, "max_filings": 50 }

Returns every recent main-board + SME DRHP filed with SEBI in the last quarter — the canonical "IPO pipeline" view used by IPO research desks, sell-side equity analysts publishing pre-listing notes, and IPO-focused funds.

SAST takeover events for a single conglomerate:

{
  "filing_types": ["TAKEOVER"],
  "company_filter": ["adani", "ambuja", "acc"],
  "days_back": 365
}

Returns every SAST letter of offer over the trailing year matching the Adani-group ecosystem — useful for M&A bankers tracking promoter-group consolidation events and compliance officers monitoring substantial-acquisition triggers.

Pharma / biotech IPO pipeline (last 6 months):

{
  "filing_types": ["DRHP", "RHP"],
  "sector_filter": "pharma",
  "days_back": 180
}

Returns Indian pharma / biotech IPO drafts filed with SEBI in the trailing half-year — used by sector-specialist analysts at Jefferies India, Kotak Institutional Equities, Motilal Oswal, IIFL, Nuvama, Ambit, Spark Capital, Avendus, and JM Financial.

Buyback signal sweep (TCS / Wipro / Infosys / HCL / Tech Mahindra IT-majors):

{
  "filing_types": ["BUYBACK-TENDER", "BUYBACK-OPEN-MARKET"],
  "company_filter": ["tcs", "wipro", "infosys", "hcl tech", "tech mahindra"],
  "days_back": 730
}

Returns every IT-major buyback filing in the trailing two years — canonical capital-return-policy signal for India IT services.

Full sweep (everything, last 30 days):

{ "filing_types": ["ALL"], "days_back": 30, "max_filings": 1000 }

Sweeps every SEBI register (Public Issues, Rights Issues, Takeovers, Buybacks, Debt, Processing Status, REIT, InvIT) for the trailing 30 days — the "regulator overview" view used by financial journalists and compliance dashboards.

Date-range pin (Q1 2026 IPOs):

{
  "filing_types": ["DRHP", "RHP"],
  "start_date": "2026-01-01",
  "end_date": "2026-03-31",
  "max_filings": 500
}

Returns every IPO offer document filed with SEBI in calendar Q1 2026.

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Use cases

• IPO research desks publishing pre-listing notes on every Indian DRHP / RHP — fan out a daily sweep of new DRHPs and pipe the pdf_url into your NLP / summarization pipeline (Claude, GPT-4, Cohere, internal LLM).
• M&A bankers at Kotak Investment Banking, JM Financial, Avendus, ICICI Securities, Axis Capital, Ambit, IIFL, Nuvama, Edelweiss tracking SAST takeover offers in real time and feeding into deal-comps databases.
• Financial journalists at Mint, Economic Times, Business Standard, BQ Prime, Bloomberg Quint, MoneyControl, CNBC-TV18 covering IPO season and corporate actions.
• Domestic mutual fund desks (SBI MF, HDFC AMC, ICICI Pru AMC, Nippon India MF, Kotak MF, Aditya Birla SLAMC, UTI AMC, DSP MF, Axis MF) building IPO-tracking workflows and anchor-investor allocation processes.
• Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) running emerging-market mandates with India sleeves at Capital Group, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity International, Vanguard, BlackRock, Aberdeen, BNY Mellon, JPMorgan AM, Goldman SAM, Morgan Stanley IM monitoring the Indian primary-issuance pipeline.
• Compliance officers at FPIs / FIIs / brokerages monitoring SAST substantial-acquisition triggers and SEBI processing-status changes on portfolio holdings.
• VC / PE deal teams at Sequoia India / Peak XV, Lightspeed India, Accel India, Matrix Partners India, Nexus Venture, Elevation Capital, Premji Invest, Westbridge, ChrysCapital, True North, ICICI Venture, KKR India, Bain Capital India, TPG Capital India, Carlyle India, Blackstone India sourcing late-stage exits and tracking portfolio companies through the IPO pipeline.
• Debt-capital-markets desks at HDFC Securities, ICICI Securities, Kotak Securities, Axis Capital, Edelweiss, Trust Capital monitoring NCD issuance pipelines.
• REIT / InvIT specialists tracking Indian alternative-asset issuance (Embassy, Mindspace, Brookfield India, Nexus Select, Powergrid InvIT, IndiGrid InvIT, IRB InvIT).
• Quant funds backtesting IPO momentum, anchor-allocation discount, listing-day pop, post-listing drift, and SAST takeover-offer arbitrage on Indian equities.

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How this compares to alternatives

Solution	Cost	Coverage	Update frequency	API access	Auth
India SEBI Filings Tracker (this actor)	$0.10/filing	DRHP + RHP + Rights + SAST + Buyback + Debt + REIT + InvIT + QIP + Processing Status	On-demand (every run hits live SEBI)	REST + Apify SDK + cURL + Python + Node	Apify token
Bloomberg Terminal	$24,000/yr/seat	Global incl. India	Real-time	TKDB / Bloomberg API (terminal-bound)	Bloomberg account
Refinitiv Eikon / LSEG Workspace	$22,000/yr/seat	Global incl. India	Real-time	Refinitiv API	LSEG account
S&P CapitalIQ / Capital IQ Pro	$26,000/yr/seat	Global incl. India	Real-time	CIQ Xpressfeed	S&P account
FactSet	$20,000/yr/seat	Global incl. India	Real-time	FactSet API	FactSet account
Prime Database	~₹3-5 lakh/yr	India IPO database	Daily	Excel / web portal	Subscription
Trendlyne IPO module	~₹3,000/yr retail	India IPO pipeline	Daily	Web portal	Subscription
Manual SEBI scraping	"Free" eng time	What you build	What you build	What you build	None

This actor is purpose-built for the programmatic Indian-regulatory-disclosure workflow — the same dataset that powers institutional IPO-research dashboards, M&A deal-flow trackers, and compliance pipelines, exposed as a clean JSON API at the price of a coffee per 30 filings.

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Related Apify actors (sister fleet — India / APAC / regulatory coverage)

Build complete India and emerging-market research pipelines by combining this actor with:

• nexgendata/bse-india-stock-screener — BSE India Stock Screener, Bombay Stock Exchange equity quotes + fundamentals (SENSEX 30, BSE 100/200/500/1000, ~5,400 listed names) for the post-listing tracking complement to this actor's pre-listing DRHP / RHP coverage.
• nexgendata/nse-india-stock-screener — NSE India Stock Screener, National Stock Exchange Nifty 200 equity quotes + fundamentals — the other half of the BSE / NSE dual-listed Indian equity universe.
• nexgendata/india-mca-inc-22-32-filings — India MCA INC-22 / INC-32 Filings Tracker, Ministry of Corporate Affairs corporate-formation + registered-office-change event stream (the upstream corporate-registry complement to SEBI's downstream securities-market filings).
• nexgendata/ipo-tracker — IPO Tracker, multi-market global IPO calendar covering NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, Euronext, HKEX, BSE, NSE, ASX, SGX, JPX — pair with SEBI for the India sleeve.
• nexgendata/apac-ipo-calendar-sweep — APAC IPO Calendar Sweep, regional IPO calendar across HKEX, SGX, ASX, JPX, BSE, NSE, KRX, TWSE — pair with SEBI for the India-specific filings detail.
• nexgendata/sec-form-13f-tracker-pro — SEC Form 13F Tracker Pro, US institutional investor quarterly holdings — the US analog of this SEBI actor's SAST takeover-disclosure register.
• nexgendata/china-ashare-insider-trades — China A-Share Insider Trades, Shanghai + Shenzhen executive trade disclosures — the China complement to this actor's SEBI insider-trade-adjacent SAST register.
• nexgendata/regulatory-filings-mcp — Regulatory Filings MCP Server, single MCP endpoint multiplexing SEC, SEBI, MCA, HKEX, ASIC, AMF, BaFin and more.

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Pricing

• $0.10 per filing returned (premium institutional disclosure data tier — matches SEC Form 13F Tracker Pro)
• $0.00005 per run start (negligible)
• 30 filings = $3.00. 100 filings = $10.00. 1000 filings = $100.00.

No subscription, no minimum, no contract. Pay-per-event billed via Apify.

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Disclaimer

SEBI filings are public documents published by the Securities and Exchange Board of India. This actor scrapes only publicly accessible filings-register pages on sebi.gov.in — no authentication required, no terms of service violated, no rate-limit pressure imposed (the actor paces requests to be polite to SEBI's edge). Output is for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, M&A advice, or legal advice. Always validate filing data against the source PDF before making investment, M&A, or compliance decisions.

Sector inference is heuristic (keyword-based on company name) and may misclassify niche issuers — treat the sector field as a hint, not ground truth, and fall back to the source DRHP / RHP / letter of offer for authoritative sector classification.

Built and maintained by NexGenData. For support, custom data feeds, or enterprise pricing on the broader Indian / APAC regulatory dataset, contact support@thenextgennexus.com.