SEC EDGAR Scraper - Filings, Form 4 Insider Trades & XBRL

SEC EDGAR scraper: filings, Form 4 insider trades and XBRL financials

TL;DR: SEC EDGAR Scraper pulls data for any US-listed company from the SEC's official EDGAR APIs and returns three kinds of clean rows: filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, 13D, DEF 14A, Form 4 and more), insider transactions (Form 3/4/5 parsed into one row per trade, with insider role, shares, price and dollar value) and XBRL key financials. It is built for investors, analysts, compliance and IR teams, fintech developers and AI agents. Pricing is per record type: $0.50 per 1,000 filings, $3.00 per 1,000 insider transactions, $1.00 per 1,000 financials rows.

Enter tickers or CIKs, pick what you want, click Start. No login, no proxy, no API key.

What data you get

Record type (recordType)	One row per	Key fields
filing	SEC filing	ticker, companyName, cik, form, accessionNumber, filingDate, reportDate, acceptedAt, description, items (8-K item numbers), isXBRL, filingUrl, filingIndexUrl
insider_transaction	Form 3/4/5 transaction per reporting owner	insiderName, insiderRelationship (officer title, director, 10% owner), transactionDate, transactionCode, transactionType (plain English), acquiredDisposed, shares, pricePerShare, transactionValue (USD), sharesOwnedAfter, direct/indirect ownership, derivative details, is10b51Plan, footnotes
company_facts	Company (XBRL)	latest annual and latest reported revenue, net income, operating income, diluted EPS, assets, liabilities, equity, cash, shares outstanding, public float; SIC, exchanges, fiscal year end

Form 4 transaction codes

Code	Meaning
P	Open-market or private purchase
S	Open-market or private sale
A	Grant or award
M	Option exercise / conversion
F	Tax withholding (shares withheld)
G	Gift

The dataset has five views: Overview - filings and insider trades, Filings - one row per SEC filing, Insider transactions - one row per Form 3/4/5 transaction, Key financials - one row per company (XBRL) and All fields - every record type.

Use cases

• Insider-trading signals: every insider buy and sell for your watchlist each day, with dollar values already calculated; filter to open-market purchases (P) above $100,000.
• Event-driven research: catch new 8-Ks (with item numbers such as 2.02 results or 5.02 executive changes) and 10-K/10-Q filings as they land.
• Fundamentals at a glance: a compact financial snapshot per company without parsing XBRL yourself.
• Compliance and IR teams: monitor peers' filings and insider activity.

How to use the SEC EDGAR scraper

1. Enter SEC User-Agent: your name/company and email, e.g. Acme Research jane.doe@acme.com. The SEC requires this on every request (fair-access policy); it is only sent to sec.gov. If you leave it empty on Apify, the actor owner's contact is used.
2. Add Companies: tickers (AAPL, MSFT, BRK-B) or CIKs (320193).
3. Choose What to collect: filings, insider transactions, key financials.
4. Choose Form types and the date range, and optionally insider filters (Insider transaction codes, Minimum transaction value (USD)).
5. Click Start. Schedule it daily with Filed within last N days = 1 for a watchlist feed.

Form 4 insider trading

Select Insider transactions. Every Form 3/4/5 in the date range is parsed into one row per transaction, with the insider's role, transaction code, shares, price and dollar value. Filter to P (purchases) or S (sales) and a minimum value to keep only the trades that matter.

10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filings

Select Filings and the form types you need. Each filing is one row with filing date, period, 8-K item numbers and links to the document and index.

XBRL financials

Select Key financials for one row per company with the latest annual and latest reported values from SEC XBRL company facts.

Input example

{
  "companies": ["AAPL", "NVDA", "TSLA"],
  "userAgent": "Acme Research jane.doe@acme.com",
  "recordTypes": ["filings", "insider_transactions", "company_facts"],
  "formTypes": ["10-K", "10-Q", "8-K", "4"],
  "filedWithinDays": 30,
  "transactionCodes": ["P", "S"],
  "minTransactionValue": 100000
}

Output example

An insider transaction row:

{
  "recordType": "insider_transaction",
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "form": "4",
  "accessionNumber": "0001140361-26-041201",
  "filingDate": "2026-10-29",
  "reportDate": "2026-10-27",
  "insiderName": "Newstead Jennifer",
  "insiderRelationship": "Officer (SVP, GC and Government Affairs)",
  "isOfficer": true,
  "is10b51Plan": true,
  "securityTitle": "Common Stock",
  "transactionDate": "2026-10-27",
  "transactionCode": "S",
  "transactionType": "Open-market sale",
  "acquiredDisposed": "D",
  "shares": 2399,
  "pricePerShare": 343.36,
  "transactionValue": 823720.64,
  "sharesOwnedAfter": 32396,
  "ownershipType": "Direct",
  "footnotes": ["This transaction was made pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the reporting person on May 5, 2026."],
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126041201/xslF345X06/form4.xml",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126041201/form4.xml",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-03T01:30:00.000Z"
}

A key-financials row contains metrics, for example:

"revenue": {
  "concept": "us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax",
  "unit": "USD",
  "latestAnnual": { "value": 416161000000, "periodEnd": "2025-09-27", "fiscalYear": 2025, "form": "10-K", "filed": "2025-10-31" },
  "latest": { "value": 109417000000, "periodEnd": "2026-06-27", "fiscalPeriod": "Q3", "form": "10-Q", "filed": "2026-07-31" }
}

Use the Insider transactions dataset view for a ready-made insider table. A run summary is stored in the key-value store record RUN_SUMMARY.

How much does SEC EDGAR data cost?

Pay per event, billed per record type, so you only pay for what you collect. Compute and proxy costs are included. The price is the same on every Apify plan.

Event	Charged when	Price
filing	One filing row saved (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, Form 4...)	$0.50 per 1,000 ($0.0005 each)
insider-transaction	One Form 3/4/5 transaction or holding row saved	$3.00 per 1,000 ($0.003 each)
financial-fact	One XBRL key-financials row saved (one per company)	$1.00 per 1,000 ($0.001 each)
apify-actor-start	Once per run (Apify's standard start fee)	$0.00005

Worked examples

• 1,000 filings = $0.50; 1,000 insider transactions = $3.00; key financials for 1,000 companies = $1.00.
• Test run on 2026-11-03 with the default input (AAPL + MSFT, last 30 days, 6 filings each): 11 filings + 27 insider transactions = 11 × $0.0005 + 27 × $0.003 = about $0.09.
• A daily filings-only feed for a 100-company watchlist that files 300 forms a month: $0.15 per month.

Set Maximum cost per run in the run options; the scraper stops cleanly at the limit.

How it compares

	This actor	Calling the EDGAR APIs yourself	Financial data subscriptions
Form 4 parsed to rows with dollar values	Yes	You parse the XML	Yes
Filings + insider trades + XBRL in one run	Yes	Three different endpoints and formats	Yes
SEC fair-access rules (User-Agent, 10 req/s)	Handled	You implement them	n/a
Full EDGAR history	Yes	Yes	Varies
Cost	From $0.50 per 1,000 filings, pay as you go	Free + your time and hosting	Subscription

FAQ

How do I get insider trading data from SEC Form 4?

Select Insider transactions, add tickers and a date range. Each Form 4 transaction becomes one row with insiderName, insiderRelationship, transactionCode, shares, pricePerShare and transactionValue.

How do I find insider buying (open-market purchases)?

Set Insider transaction codes to P and, optionally, Minimum transaction value (USD) (for example 100000).

Can I download 10-K and 8-K filings for a list of companies?

Yes. Select Filings, set Form types to 10-K, 8-K (or any others) and the date range. Each row links to the filing document (filingUrl) and index (filingIndexUrl).

Why do I need to enter a User-Agent?

The SEC's fair-access policy requires automated tools to identify themselves with a contact email and blocks anonymous traffic. The scraper also stays under the SEC limit of 10 requests per second.

How far back can I go?

The whole EDGAR history for the company (electronic filings back to 1994-2001, depending on the company). Older filing pages are loaded automatically when your date range needs them.

Why does one Form 4 give several rows?

A Form 4 can report several transactions and joint filers. Each transaction for each reporting owner is one row, so you can sum and filter easily.

Are foreign companies supported?

Companies that file with the SEC (including 20-F/40-F filers) are supported. Insider Forms 3/4/5 exist only for US-registered issuers.

Is it legal to scrape SEC EDGAR?

EDGAR data is public US government information, accessed through the SEC's official APIs within the SEC's documented access rules. Insider names are published by the SEC as part of mandatory public disclosures. This is data, not investment advice.

Can an AI agent use this SEC EDGAR API?

Yes. Through the Apify MCP server an agent can find it with search-actors, read the input schema and run it, for example "insider purchases over $1M at NVDA in the last 90 days". See Integrations.

Something wrong?

Open an issue on the Issues tab; we aim to respond within 24 hours.

Integrations

• API: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/offgrid-labs~sec-edgar-filings-insider/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN> with the input JSON as the body returns the rows directly (runs under 5 minutes; otherwise start a run and read its dataset).
• Python / JavaScript: pip install apify-client / npm install apify-client, then client.actor("offgrid-labs/sec-edgar-filings-insider").call(run_input={...}).
• No-code: Apify's integrations for Make, Zapier and n8n, plus Google Sheets, Slack, webhooks and Schedules (for example a daily insider-buying alert).
• MCP / AI agents: add https://mcp.apify.com?tools=offgrid-labs/sec-edgar-filings-insider to your MCP client to expose this actor as a tool.

Changelog

• 2026-11-03 · README restructured (record-type and transaction-code tables, cost examples, comparison, FAQ, integrations); input field descriptions rewritten with units, defaults and examples for AI agents; output schema and dataset views described; Store title "SEC EDGAR Scraper - Filings, Form 4 Insider Trades & XBRL". Removed an incorrect line about plan discounts: prices are flat on every plan.
• 2026-11-03 · Pricing split by record type: filing $0.50, insider-transaction $3.00, financial-fact $1.00 per 1,000 (was one blended result event); Filings and Key financials dataset views; output schema.
• 2026-11-03 · First release: EDGAR submissions JSON, Form 3/4/5 XML parsing, XBRL company facts, SEC fair-access User-Agent and rate limit.

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