SEC Event Router — Unified SEC Filings & Events Timeline

ONE QUERY → all SEC events for a company.

Stop running four different SEC actors and stitching the results together. Send one ticker, company name, or CIK and get a unified, chronologically sorted timeline of every material SEC event — 8-K filings, Form 4 insider transactions, Form D private placements, 13F-HR institutional holdings, and SEC litigation releases — in a single dataset.

📊 Sample Output

What it does

• Resolves any ticker, company name, or CIK to a canonical SEC CIK via EDGAR full-text search
• Fans out to SEC EDGAR (efts.sec.gov) for every requested form type in parallel
• Scrapes SEC litigation releases for civil/admin actions naming the company
• Normalizes everything into one event row schema with a form_type discriminator
• Sorts the merged result by filing_date DESC so the freshest event is row 0
• Per-row source_url points back to the exact SEC filing index page

Buyer use cases

• Hedge fund event-driven research — surface every catalyst (8-K, insider buying, litigation) for a watchlist ticker in one call
• M&A diligence timelines — build a complete SEC event history for the target before signing the LOI
• Investigative journalism — track a company's material disclosures, insider activity, and regulatory actions across years
• Compliance & monitoring — daily portfolio sweep across all SEC event types for every holding

Input

Field	Type	Description
query	string (required)	Ticker (AAPL), company name (Apple Inc.), or 10-digit CIK
formTypes	string[]	Subset of ["8-K", "4", "D", "13F-HR", "Litigation"] (default: all)
dateFrom	string	Earliest event date YYYY-MM-DD
dateTo	string	Latest event date YYYY-MM-DD (empty = today)
maxEventsPerType	integer	Cap per form type (1–100). Hard total cap = maxEventsPerType × formTypes.length

Output schema

{
  "form_type": "8-K | 4 | D | 13F-HR | Litigation Release",
  "filing_date": "2026-05-28",
  "accession_number": "0001234567-26-000123",
  "company_name": "Apple Inc.",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "cik": "320193",
  "event_title": "Item 8.01 Other Events: Subsidiary Reorganization",
  "event_summary": "First 500 chars of headline + key items/event type",
  "form_specific_data": {},
  "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/...",
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-29T20:00:00Z"
}

form_specific_data shape varies by form_type:

• 8-K: {"items": ["1.01", "8.01"]}
• 4: {"insider_name": "Jane Doe", "insider_role": "CEO", "transaction_type": "Sale", "shares": 10000, "price_per_share": 175.50}
• D: {"offering_amount": 5000000, "amount_sold": 2500000, "investors_count": 18}
• 13F-HR: {"total_value_usd": 45000000000, "holdings_count": 850}
• Litigation Release: {"defendants": ["John Smith"], "action_type": "civil_action", "release_number": "LR-25888"}

Sample Output

[
  {
    "form_type": "8-K",
    "filing_date": "2026-05-28",
    "accession_number": "0000320193-26-000098",
    "company_name": "Apple Inc.",
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "cik": "320193",
    "event_title": "Item 8.01 Other Events",
    "event_summary": "Apple Inc. — Form 8-K filed 2026-05-28. Items: 8.01.",
    "form_specific_data": {"items": ["8.01"]},
    "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000320193&type=8-K",
    "scraped_at": "2026-05-29T20:00:00Z"
  },
  {
    "form_type": "4",
    "filing_date": "2026-05-22",
    "accession_number": "0000320193-26-000091",
    "company_name": "Apple Inc.",
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "cik": "320193",
    "event_title": "Form 4 — Insider transaction",
    "event_summary": "Form 4 insider transaction filed for Apple Inc.",
    "form_specific_data": {"insider_name": null, "insider_role": null, "transaction_type": null, "shares": null, "price_per_share": null},
    "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000320193&type=4",
    "scraped_at": "2026-05-29T20:00:00Z"
  },
  {
    "form_type": "D",
    "filing_date": "2026-04-19",
    "accession_number": "0000320193-26-000077",
    "company_name": "Apple Inc.",
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "cik": "320193",
    "event_title": "Form D — Notice of Exempt Offering",
    "event_summary": "Form D filed for Apple Inc.",
    "form_specific_data": {"offering_amount": null, "amount_sold": null, "investors_count": null},
    "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000320193&type=D",
    "scraped_at": "2026-05-29T20:00:00Z"
  }
]

When to use the dedicated actors instead

This is a convenience router optimized for breadth across form types for a single ticker. If you need volume on one form type — entire market 8-K firehose, every insider transaction in the S&P 500, all Form D offerings in a quarter — use the dedicated actors:

• sec-edgar-8k-filings — high-throughput 8-K firehose
• sec-litigation-releases — every SEC enforcement action
• sec-form-d-tracker — Reg D private placement firehose
• sec-form4-insider-tracker — insider transaction firehose
• sec-form-13f-tracker-pro — institutional holdings snapshots

Compliance

• Issues User-Agent: NexGenData hello@nexgendata.com on every SEC request (SEC mandates a contact UA)
• Rate-limited to ≤5 req/s (SEC ceiling is 10 req/s; we stay conservative)
• All data sourced directly from efts.sec.gov, www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases.htm, and EDGAR filing index pages — public legal record only
• Per-row source_url for verification
• Officer names, insider names, and defendants from SEC filings are public legal record; no extra PII (no emails, phones, addresses)

Keywords

SEC event timeline API, SEC filings aggregator, 8-K Form 4 Form D 13F unified, SEC company events API, EDGAR filings unified, insider trading timeline, SEC litigation timeline, company event-driven research

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• SEC Litigation Releases
• CFTC Enforcement Actions
• FTC Consumer Protection Cases
• FINRA BrokerCheck Search
• Australia ASIC Enforcement
• UK FCA Enforcement Tracker

Corporate Disclosure & Announcements:

• SEC EDGAR 8-K Filings
• SEC Form D Funding
• SEC Event Router ← you are here
• ASX Company Announcements
• SGX Company Announcements
• HKEX News Announcements
• Korea KIND Disclosures
• PSE Edge Disclosures
• Investegate RNS Aggregator
• PR Newswire
• AP News

IP Intelligence:

• USPTO Patent Grants Tracker
• WIPO PATENTSCOPE
• EUIPO Trademarks