SEC EDGAR 8-K Material Events Tracker

Real-time access to SEC 8-K filings — the official disclosure form every U.S. public company must file within four business days of any material corporate event. Built directly on the SEC's EDGAR full-text search API for authoritative, low-latency data.

What you get

Every 8-K filing returned by this SEC EDGAR API scraper is normalized into a clean JSON record with the filing's accession number, filing date, company identifiers (name, ticker, CIK), and — most importantly — the full list of 8-K Item numbers plus their human-readable descriptions. No more cross-referencing the SEC's Item taxonomy by hand.

Why 8-Ks matter

8-Ks are the heartbeat of U.S. corporate event flow. They cover 30+ material event categories, including:

• M&A and acquisitions (Item 1.01, 2.01) — material definitive agreements and completed deals
• Executive changes (Item 5.02) — CEO/CFO departures, appointments, and comp packages
• Bankruptcy (Item 1.03) — receivership and insolvency filings
• Cybersecurity incidents (Item 1.05) — mandatory under 2023 SEC rules
• Earnings releases (Item 2.02) — quarterly results
• Material impairments (Item 2.06) — write-downs
• Regulation FD disclosures (Item 7.01) — selective disclosure cures
• Changes in control (Item 5.01), delistings (Item 3.01), and more

Who uses it

• Equity research analysts — building event-driven research pipelines
• Hedge funds — event-driven and merger-arb strategies
• M&A bankers — peer-deal tracking and pitch intel
• Compliance teams — monitoring portfolio company disclosures
• Financial journalists — sourcing corporate event stories from primary documents
• IR teams — benchmarking peer disclosure cadence

Input

Field	Type	Description
query	string	Company name, ticker, or free-text keyword (empty = all recent 8-Ks)
tickers	array	Specific tickers to filter by
items	array	8-K Item numbers to filter (e.g. ["5.02", "2.01"])
dateFrom	string	YYYY-MM-DD (default: 7 days ago)
dateTo	string	YYYY-MM-DD (default: today)
maxResults	integer	Cap on filings returned (1–1000, default 100)

Output schema

{
  "accession_number": "0001234567-26-000123",
  "filing_date": "2026-05-28",
  "accepted_datetime": "2026-05-28T16:30:00-04:00",
  "form_type": "8-K",
  "company_name": "Acme Corporation",
  "ticker": "ACME",
  "cik": "0001234567",
  "items": ["1.01", "2.01", "9.01"],
  "item_descriptions": [
    "Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement",
    "Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets",
    "Financial Statements and Exhibits"
  ],
  "file_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1234567/000123456726000123/0001234567-26-000123-index.htm",
  "source_url": "https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=...&accession=0001234567-26-000123",
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-28T20:00:00Z"
}

Sample Output

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Compliance

This actor follows SEC scraper guidance:

• Identifies itself with the SEC-mandated User-Agent: NexGenData hello@nexgendata.com
• Polite rate limit of 5 requests/second (SEC permits up to 10)
• All requests go directly to sec.gov and efts.sec.gov — no third-party mirrors
• Only public registry data is captured (company name, CIK, ticker) — no PII

Keywords

SEC EDGAR API, 8-K filings, material events, corporate event tracker, SEC API scraper, equity research data, M&A monitoring, executive change tracker, cybersecurity disclosure feed, EDGAR full-text search.