SEC Form 4 Scraper: insider buys and sells by ticker

$1 per 1,000 transactions. Platform usage included. No rental, no minimum.

The four most used insider trading actors on Apify Store charge $4.50 to $10.00 per 1,000 results (Store prices checked 20 October 2026). This actor returns Form 4 insider transactions for $1.

Open it in Apify Console

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What it costs

Transactions	This actor	Most used insider trading actors on the Store
1,000	$1.00	$4.50 to $10.00
10,000	$10.00	$45 to $100
100,000	$100.00	$450 to $1,000

Plus $0.001 per run. Watching 20 tickers every day, with about 30 new transaction rows a day, costs about $0.03 a day, or roughly $1 a month.

Why people switch

• One flat price. Compute is included, so the bill follows the number of rows and nothing else. A test run of 150 rows measured about $0.008 of platform cost per 1,000 rows.
• One row per transaction. Every line of a Form 4 becomes a row with the insider, their role (director, officer title, 10% owner), date, transaction code in plain words, shares, price, value, shares held afterwards, direct or indirect ownership, the Rule 10b5-1 box and the footnotes the filer wrote.
• Filters for the trades you care about. Keep only open market purchases or sales, set a smallest trade value, or limit the filing dates.
• Straight from the SEC. It reads the filings on sec.gov, with no key and no third party in between, and keeps well under the SEC's request limit.

Quick start

1. Open the actor, type a ticker such as AAPL, press Start.
2. Or paste this input:

{ "tickers": ["AAPL"], "transactionCodes": ["S"], "filedFrom": "2026-01-01", "maxItems": 100 }

3. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

Use it from code

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/one_dollar_store~sec-form-4-insider-trades/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"tickers": ["AAPL"], "maxItems": 50}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("one_dollar_store/sec-form-4-insider-trades").call(
    run_input={"tickers": ["AAPL"], "maxItems": 50}
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["transactionDate"], item["insiderName"], item["transactionCode"], item["shares"], item.get("pricePerShare"))

Use it from an AI assistant

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other assistants can call this actor through Apify's MCP server. Add it with this server address:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=one_dollar_store/sec-form-4-insider-trades

Then ask, for example: "Show every open market sale of more than $500,000 by Microsoft insiders filed this year."

Switching from another Form 4 actor

Most Form 4 and insider trading actors take a ticker and a result limit. Here they are tickers (a list, so one run can cover many companies) and maxItems. The core fields are insiderName, relationship, transactionDate, transactionCode, shares, pricePerShare and totalValueUsd.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
tickers	list of text	none	Tickers such as AAPL or BRK-B, or CIK numbers such as 320193. Required.
transactionCodes	list	all	Keep only these Form 4 codes: P purchase, S sale, A award, M exercise, F tax withholding, G gift, D, X, C, J.
includeDerivatives	true or false	false	Also return the derivative table: options, restricted stock units and similar.
includeAmendments	true or false	false	Also return amended filings (4/A). They can repeat a trade already reported.
filedFrom, filedTo	text	none	Filing dates, YYYY-MM-DD. A recent filedFrom makes the run faster.
minValueUsd	number	none	Only rows where shares times price reaches this many dollars. Rows without a price drop out.
maxFilingsPerCompany	number	300	Most filings to open per company, newest first.
maxItems	number	100	Total transaction rows for the run, 10 to 10,000.

Example:

{
  "tickers": ["MSFT", "NVDA"],
  "transactionCodes": ["P", "S"],
  "minValueUsd": 500000,
  "filedFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "maxItems": 500
}

Output fields

Field	Meaning
ticker, issuerName, issuerCik	The company whose shares were traded.
insiderName, insiderCik	The person who filed. A joint filing lists every person, separated by semicolons.
relationship, isDirector, isOfficer, isTenPercentOwner, isOther, officerTitle	The insider's role as ticked on the form.
formType, filedDate, periodOfReport, accession, filingUrl	Which filing the row came from, and a link to its XML on sec.gov.
transactionDate, securityTitle, isDerivative	When, what, and whether the line is from the derivative table.
transactionCode, transactionType, acquiredDisposed	The Form 4 code, its plain words, and A (acquired) or D (disposed).
shares, pricePerShare, totalValueUsd, sharesOwnedAfter	Size, price, shares times price, and the holding after the trade.
ownership, ownershipNature	Direct or Indirect, and how an indirect holding is held.
conversionOrExercisePrice, exerciseDate, expirationDate, underlyingSecurityTitle, underlyingShares	Derivative lines only.
rule10b51Plan	True when the filer ticked the Rule 10b5-1 box. The box covers the whole filing, not one line.
footnotes	Footnote text the filer attached to the line, cut at 800 characters.

Sample results

Real rows from a test run on 20 October 2026. A few fields (CIK numbers, accession number, security title, plain words for the code) and the long footnote text are left out here to keep the page short; every row has them.

[
  {"ticker": "AAPL", "issuerName": "Apple Inc.", "insiderName": "COOK TIMOTHY D", "isDirector": true, "isOfficer": true, "officerTitle": "Executive Chair", "relationship": "Director, Officer (Executive Chair)", "formType": "4", "filedDate": "2026-10-05", "rule10b51Plan": true, "transactionDate": "2026-10-01", "isDerivative": false, "transactionCode": "M", "shares": 374541, "sharesOwnedAfter": 3654959, "ownership": "Direct", "footnotes": "Each restricted stock unit (\"RSU\") represents the right to receive, at settlement, one sha...", "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126038674/form4.xml"},
  {"ticker": "AAPL", "issuerName": "Apple Inc.", "insiderName": "Borders Ben", "isDirector": false, "isOfficer": true, "officerTitle": "Principal Accounting Officer", "relationship": "Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)", "formType": "4", "filedDate": "2026-10-19", "rule10b51Plan": true, "transactionDate": "2026-10-16", "isDerivative": false, "transactionCode": "S", "shares": 151, "pricePerShare": 343.08, "totalValueUsd": 51805.08, "sharesOwnedAfter": 39417, "ownership": "Direct", "footnotes": "This transaction was made pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the reporting...", "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126040127/form4.xml"},
  {"ticker": "AAPL", "issuerName": "Apple Inc.", "insiderName": "COOK TIMOTHY D", "isDirector": true, "isOfficer": true, "officerTitle": "Executive Chair", "relationship": "Director, Officer (Executive Chair)", "formType": "4", "filedDate": "2026-10-05", "rule10b51Plan": true, "transactionDate": "2026-10-02", "isDerivative": false, "transactionCode": "G", "shares": 26325, "pricePerShare": 0, "totalValueUsd": 0, "sharesOwnedAfter": 3237843, "ownership": "Direct", "footnotes": "These shares are held through Mr. Cook's trust.", "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126038674/form4.xml"}
]

Limits

• One row per transaction line, not per filing. One Form 4 can hold many lines, so maxItems counts lines.
• Newest filings first, up to a cap. The actor opens at most maxFilingsPerCompany filings per company (default 300). Filters such as one transaction code are applied after a filing is read, so a rare code can need a higher cap. A test that scanned 300 Apple filings for purchases took about 42 seconds.
• Pace. The SEC allows 10 requests a second. The actor sends at most 8 a second and names itself and its Apify page in the User-Agent, as the SEC asks.
• Form 4 only. Forms 3 and 5, Form 144 and Schedule 13D or 13G are not included. Older filings that were made as plain text and have no XML file are skipped and counted in the run summary.
• Companies by ticker or CIK. Tickers are matched against the SEC's current ticker list. For a company that has changed ticker or delisted, use its CIK number.
• Fields the filer leaves out are empty. Gifts and many awards have no price, so pricePerShare and totalValueUsd are missing. Role flags are missing when the filer did not tick them.
• Several reporting persons. On a joint filing insiderName lists everyone, and the role flags come from the first person named.
• rule10b51Plan covers the whole filing. The SEC form has one box for the filing, and forms filed before April 2023 do not have it.
• As filed. Rows show what the filer reported. The SEC is the source of record, and nothing here is investment advice.
• Free plan. A run from a free Apify plan returns the first 10 results.

FAQ

What is the cheapest Form 4 insider trading scraper on Apify? This actor costs $1 per 1,000 transactions with platform usage included. The four most used insider trading actors on the Store charged $4.50 to $10.00 per 1,000 when we checked on 20 October 2026.

How much does it cost to scrape 10,000 insider transactions? $10, plus $0.001 for each run.

Do I pay for compute or proxy on top? No. Platform usage is included in the $1 per 1,000 price, and no proxy is needed.

Where does the data come from? From the SEC's EDGAR system: the list of each company's filings on data.sec.gov, and then the Form 4 XML file of each filing on sec.gov. No key and no third party is involved.

Is it legal? The actor reads public data only, with no login. Form 4 filings are public records that the SEC publishes for everyone. How you use them is up to you: follow the SEC's fair access rules, the terms of any service you pass the data to, and the law where you live.

Is this an official SEC product? No. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

How do I see only open market purchases? Set transactionCodes to ["P"]. Raise maxFilingsPerCompany if purchases are rare for the company, because most Form 4 lines are sales, awards and tax withholding.

Why does one sale show up next to an exercise and a tax line? An insider often exercises options or has shares vest (code M), has shares withheld for tax (F) and sells some on the market (S) in the same filing. Each is its own line. Filter by transactionCodes if you only want one kind.

How do I follow insider trading every day? Schedule a daily run with filedFrom set to yesterday, and use accession to drop filings you already have.

Do I need an Apify account? Yes. Actors run from an Apify account, and a free account is enough to start: it includes $5 of platform usage every month. You can sign up here. This is a referral link and it costs you nothing.

Is there a limit on the free plan? Yes. A run started from a free plan account delivers the first 10 results, then ends with a message and a link to the plans. Any paid plan returns everything you ask for, up to your own limit. The price per result is the same on every plan.

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Changelog

• October 2026: first release.