# SEC Form 8-K Material Events Tracker (`nexgendata/sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper`) Actor

Track every material event filed on SEC Form 8-K — M\&A (1.01/2.01), funding rounds (8.01/3.02), exec changes (5.02), bankruptcy (1.03), cybersecurity (1.05). Per-filing item codes, ticker, CIK, filing date, filing index URL. For event-driven traders, M\&A bankers, financial journalism.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Stephan Corbeil](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $100.00 / 1,000 form 8-k filings

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

## 📊 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)

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

### 💻 Code Example — Python SDK

```python
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

```bash
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.

### 🔗 Related NexGenData Actors

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- [USAspending Federal Awards Scraper](https://apify.com/nexgendata/usaspending-federal-awards-scraper?fpr=2ayu9b)

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New to Apify? [Sign up via our referral link](https://apify.com/nexgendata?fpr=2ayu9b) — you get free platform credits on signup, and you help fund the maintenance of this actor fleet.

***

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# Actor input Schema

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Inclusive start date for the filing-date range. Form 8-K data goes back many years.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Inclusive end date for the filing-date range. Use a small window for ad-hoc research; longer windows for backfills.

## `itemFilter` (type: `array`):

Only return filings that report at least one of these 8-K item codes. Common codes: 1.01 (Material Definitive Agreement = M\&A/contracts), 1.05 (Cybersecurity), 2.01 (Acquisition Completion), 5.02 (Officer/Director Change), 8.01 (Other Events / press releases). Leave empty to return every 8-K.

## `tickers` (type: `array`):

Filter to only filings whose issuer ticker matches one of these (e.g. \['AAPL','MSFT']). Leave empty for the full universe.

## `maxFilings` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of 8-K filings to return after filtering (1–2000). Each filing is one dataset row.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2025-01-15",
  "itemFilter": [
    "1.01",
    "2.01",
    "5.02"
  ],
  "tickers": [],
  "maxFilings": 25
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
    "dateTo": "2025-01-15",
    "itemFilter": [
        "1.01",
        "2.01",
        "5.02"
    ],
    "tickers": [],
    "maxFilings": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
    "dateTo": "2025-01-15",
    "itemFilter": [
        "1.01",
        "2.01",
        "5.02",
    ],
    "tickers": [],
    "maxFilings": 25,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2025-01-15",
  "itemFilter": [
    "1.01",
    "2.01",
    "5.02"
  ],
  "tickers": [],
  "maxFilings": 25
}' |
apify call nexgendata/sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "SEC Form 8-K Material Events Tracker",
        "description": "Track every material event filed on SEC Form 8-K — M&A (1.01/2.01), funding rounds (8.01/3.02), exec changes (5.02), bankruptcy (1.03), cybersecurity (1.05). Per-filing item codes, ticker, CIK, filing date, filing index URL. For event-driven traders, M&A bankers, financial journalism.",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "lUpxb34kY2pwafKc5"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/nexgendata~sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
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                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
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                            }
                        }
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                },
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                    {
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                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/nexgendata~sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-nexgendata-sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                },
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                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/nexgendata~sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-nexgendata-sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "dateFrom",
                    "dateTo"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "dateFrom": {
                        "title": "Filing date — from (YYYY-MM-DD)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Inclusive start date for the filing-date range. Form 8-K data goes back many years."
                    },
                    "dateTo": {
                        "title": "Filing date — to (YYYY-MM-DD)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Inclusive end date for the filing-date range. Use a small window for ad-hoc research; longer windows for backfills."
                    },
                    "itemFilter": {
                        "title": "Item-code filter (optional)",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Only return filings that report at least one of these 8-K item codes. Common codes: 1.01 (Material Definitive Agreement = M&A/contracts), 1.05 (Cybersecurity), 2.01 (Acquisition Completion), 5.02 (Officer/Director Change), 8.01 (Other Events / press releases). Leave empty to return every 8-K.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "tickers": {
                        "title": "Ticker filter (optional)",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Filter to only filings whose issuer ticker matches one of these (e.g. ['AAPL','MSFT']). Leave empty for the full universe.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxFilings": {
                        "title": "Max filings",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 2000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of 8-K filings to return after filtering (1–2000). Each filing is one dataset row.",
                        "default": 50
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```