📊 SEC Form 8-K Material Events Tracker — M&A, Funding & Exec Changes

Pull every Form 8-K filed in any date range, with full item-code decoding. M&A definitive agreements (1.01), acquisition completions (2.01), officer changes (5.02), bankruptcy (1.03), cybersecurity incidents (1.05), and dozens more — the SEC's real-time corporate-events feed.

📦 What you get per filing

• accession_number, filing_date, period_ending
• primary_cik, all_ciks, ticker, display_names
• biz_states, biz_locations, inc_states, sics (industry code)
• items[] — raw 8-K item codes (e.g. ["1.01", "9.01"])
• item_descriptions[] — codes paired with full SEC descriptions
• filing_index_url, filing_detail_url

🎯 Use cases

1. Event-driven traders — surface 1.05 (cybersecurity) and 4.02 (non-reliance on financials) for short setups.
2. M&A bankers / advisors — track 1.01 + 2.01 announcements across an acquirer-target watchlist.
3. VC / corp-dev — 1.01 amongst peer companies surfaces partnership / commercial announcements.
4. Financial journalism — daily 5.02 sweep for executive turnover storylines.
5. Compliance / IR — monitor your own competitors' material event filings.
6. Short-interest research — clusters of 4.02 (financial restatements) before short-thesis writeups.

🚀 Quick start (JSON input)

{
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2025-01-15",
  "itemFilter": ["1.01", "2.01", "5.02"],
  "tickers": [],
  "maxFilings": 50
}

💻 Code Example — Python SDK

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper").call(run_input={
    "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
    "dateTo": "2025-01-31",
    "itemFilter": ["1.01"],  # M&A / definitive agreements only
    "maxFilings": 200,
})
for f in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f["filing_date"], f.get("ticker") or f["display_names"][0], f["items"])

🌐 Code Example — cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"dateFrom":"2025-01-01","dateTo":"2025-01-15","itemFilter":["1.01","5.02"],"maxFilings":50}'

🔌 Integrations

• Zapier — Slack alerts for any 1.05 (cybersecurity) filing in real-ish time.
• Make.com — bulk import 8-Ks into your event-driven backtest pipeline.
• n8n — daily morning digest of last 24h of M&A 1.01 filings.

💰 Pricing (pay per event)

• Actor Start: flat per-run fee (depends on memory).
• Form 8-K filing: charged once per filing pushed to the dataset.

Cost example: 200 filings ≈ 200 × per-filing event + 1 start. Pulling a full month of S&P 500 8-K events typically lands well under $50.

❓ FAQ

Q: What item codes are decoded? All 33 SEC-defined Form 8-K item codes (1.01 through 9.01). The item_descriptions field pairs each code with its official description so downstream consumers don't need their own lookup table.

Q: How fresh is the data? EDGAR full-text search returns filings within hours. Form 8-K must be filed within 4 business days of the triggering event.

Q: Can I get the actual filing body? This actor returns the metadata + index URLs. To fetch the full 8-K body content, follow the filing_detail_url and parse the linked exhibits/HTML — that's a separate scrape we'll add as an enrichment add-on.

Q: User-Agent — is this compliant? Yes — sends User-Agent: NexGenData scrapers@thenextgennexus.com per SEC's published policy at sec.gov/os/accessing-edgar-data. Self-throttled.

Q: Bug reports? Open an issue on the Apify console — responses within 24 hours.

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