SEC 8-K Filings Scraper & Material Event Alerts

Turn SEC EDGAR 8-K "current reports" into a clean, classified alert feed. 8-Ks are how public companies disclose material events: cybersecurity incidents, auditor changes, bankruptcy, acquisitions, delisting notices, restatements, leadership changes and more. This Actor reads the official SEC EDGAR data, tags every filing by 8-K item and event category, rates how often that kind of event matters, and delivers only the filings you ask for.

Use it as an SEC 8-K API and EDGAR 8-K alert feed: search 8-K filings by ticker, CIK, item number and event type, and get JSON, CSV or Excel out.

No API key and no SEC account needed. It uses only official SEC endpoints (EDGAR daily indexes, the latest-filings feed and the data.sec.gov submissions API), a declared User-Agent, and a slow, polite request rate that stays far below the SEC fair-access limit.

Who uses 8-K material event alerts

• Investors, analysts and researchers who want alerts on specific events (for example Item 4.02 "non-reliance on previously issued financials").
• Risk, procurement and vendor-management teams watching suppliers, customers or counterparties for distress (bankruptcy, auditor resignation, delisting notice, cyber incident).
• Journalists, compliance teams and data engineers who want structured 8-K events in JSON, CSV or Excel, on a schedule.

What you get: SEC 8-K filings as structured data

One dataset row per 8-K (or 8-K/A) filing that matches your filters, for example:

{
  "accessionNumber": "0001104659-26-111403",
  "companyName": "Example Corp",
  "tickers": ["EXPL"],
  "form": "8-K",
  "filedDate": "2026-09-28",
  "signal": "high",
  "itemCodes": ["4.01", "9.01"],
  "categories": ["audit", "exhibits"],
  "items": [{ "code": "4.01", "label": "Change in certifying accountant (auditor)", "category": "audit", "signal": "high" }],
  "filingIndexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/.../...-index.htm"
}

Also included: CIK, acceptance time, report date, SIC code, state of incorporation, business city and state, and the link to the primary 8-K document. See docs/sample_output.json for real output.

How to monitor SEC 8-K filings by company, item code or event

1. Watch specific companies: enter tickers or CIKs in Companies to watch (up to 50). The Actor checks each company's official filing history, up to 90 days back.
2. Or scan the whole market: leave companies empty. The Actor covers today's latest filings and the last few business days (up to 10).
3. Narrow it down with 8-K item codes (such as 1.05, 4.02, 4.01, 1.03, 3.01), event categories, or a minimum signal (routine, medium, high).
4. Set Maximum filings. This is your cost cap: newest filings first, and you pay per delivered filing.
5. For a scheduled alert feed, give the run a watchlist name and tick Only new filings. The Actor remembers what it already delivered under that name in your own account.
6. Send results anywhere with Apify integrations, webhooks, Zapier, Make or the API (see "Use with AI agents and the API" below).

Track specific 8-K items: cybersecurity incidents, auditor changes, bankruptcy and more

Common item codes to filter on: 1.05 material cybersecurity incidents, 4.01 change of auditor, 4.02 non-reliance on previously issued financials (restatement), 1.03 bankruptcy or receivership, 3.01 delisting notice, 2.01 completed acquisition or disposal, 5.02 departure or appointment of directors and officers, 2.05 exit or restructuring costs. Combine them with a ticker watchlist for supplier and counterparty risk monitoring, or run them across the whole market for a daily "who just disclosed a cyber incident" list.

Pricing (pay per event)

You pay only for what is delivered:

Event	Price	When
Actor start	$0.0001	Each run
Result delivered	$0.02	Each filing that matched your filters and was added to your dataset

What $0.02 buys: one classified 8-K filing: company, ticker, CIK, filing and acceptance dates, every item code with a plain-English label and category, a signal rating, SIC and location, and direct links to the filing on sec.gov. Nothing else is billed for the filing, and there are no subscription or seat fees.

Examples: a daily watchlist that finds 3 new matching filings costs about $0.0601 ($0.0001 + 3 x $0.02). A one-off pull of 100 filings costs $2.0001. Filings that do not match are free, and Maximum filings plus the run's maximum-cost setting stop spending at your limit.

Use with AI agents and the API

Every run is a plain Apify Actor, so anything that can call the Apify API can use it.

• REST API. Start a run and get the results in one call (replace YOUR_TOKEN with your Apify API token):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sec-8k-event-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"companies":["AAPL","MSFT"],"daysBack":30,"itemCodes":["1.05","4.02"],"maxFilings":20}'

(Use the Actor's full username~actor-name ID from its API tab if the short name does not resolve.) The same input works with the Apify JavaScript and Python clients.

• MCP (Model Context Protocol). Apify's MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com) exposes any Store Actor as a tool, so Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients can ask "did any of my watchlist companies file a cybersecurity 8-K this week?" in plain language. Add this Actor to the server's tool list (for example with the actors URL parameter, https://mcp.apify.com?actors=USERNAME/sec-8k-event-monitor) and give the agent your Apify token. Maximum filings keeps an agent's spend bounded.
• Scheduled runs and webhooks. Create a Schedule in Apify Console (for example every weekday evening), set a webhook on the run's success event, and post the dataset to Slack, email or your database. With a watchlist name and Only new filings, each run returns just what was not delivered before.
• Spending control. Set the run's maximum cost in the run options and Maximum filings in the input; the Actor stops at whichever limit comes first.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need an SEC account or API key? No. The Actor uses official public EDGAR endpoints with a declared User-Agent and a polite request rate.

Can I get alerts when a specific company files an 8-K? Yes. Put tickers or CIKs in Companies to watch, name the watchlist, tick Only new filings and put the Actor on a Schedule.

How do I find cybersecurity incident disclosures? Filter on item code 1.05. For restatements use 4.02, for auditor changes 4.01, for bankruptcy 1.03, for delisting notices 3.01.

How fresh is the data? Watchlist mode reads each company's filing history, which the SEC updates as filings are accepted. Market scans use the latest-filings feed for today plus the SEC daily indexes for earlier days. It is not a real-time tick feed.

Does it read the text of the filing? No. It reports which items a filing contains and links to the filing. That keeps it fast and avoids repeating text from filings.

Are officer, director or shareholder names included? No. The output is company-level only.

Does it include 8-K/A amendments? Not by default; switch on Include 8-K/A amendments to get them.

How much does it cost? $0.0001 per run plus $0.02 per delivered filing. You control the maximum with Maximum filings and the run's maximum cost.

Can I export to CSV or Excel? Yes. Any Apify dataset can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML from the Output tab or the API.

Is the signal rating investment advice? No. It is the tool's own heuristic for how often an item marks an event people act on.

How the classification works

Each 8-K lists the "items" it reports under (for example Item 1.05 for a material cybersecurity incident). The Actor maps every item to a plain-English label and an event category. The signal rating is the tool's own heuristic for how often an item marks an event people act on. It is not an SEC field and not investment advice. Items the Actor does not recognise are still delivered, labelled as other.

Important limitations (please read)

• Item level only. The Actor reports which items a filing contains, not what the filing says. Follow filingIndexUrl to read the filing itself on sec.gov.
• Market scans are paced on purpose. Each filing needs one small request, sent at most four times per second, so scanning one full business day of filings takes about a minute. Use item filters and a sensible Maximum filings to keep runs short.
• Today's filings come from the SEC's latest-filings feed, which lists the most recent 100 filings only. On very busy days earlier filings drop out of it; the SEC daily index completes the picture the next day.
• Weekends and holidays have no filings and no daily index.
• Company details. tickers come from the SEC's official company_tickers.json (one request per run), so companies without a listed ticker have an empty list. SIC, state, location and the documentUrl link come from the SEC's submissions data, at most one extra request per company that appears in your results (market scans) or one per watched company. They are blank only when the SEC has no value (for example funds and trusts with no SIC code) or when a filing is too old to appear in a company's recent filings.
• Not real time. Use watchlist mode for the quickest updates on companies you care about.
• Convenience feed, not legal, tax or investment advice. Always confirm details on sec.gov.

Data source and attribution

Data: public filings on SEC EDGAR (sec.gov), accessed through official EDGAR endpoints in line with the SEC's fair-access guidance. This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Privacy and terms

This Actor collects no personal data about individuals. It reports company-level filing facts only: it does not output names of officers, directors or shareholders, and it does not track individuals' trades or positions. It does not read the text of filings. It sends no data to third parties and uses no AI or LLM at run time. It declares itself to the SEC with a User-Agent that includes the publisher's contact address.

Support

Issues and feature requests go through the Actor's Issues tab. Contact: claudefarmceo@gmail.com. Support is AI-assisted, on behalf of the publisher.

Technical notes

Node.js 22, Apify SDK 3, no browser. Runs in seconds for watchlists and about a minute per business day for market scans, on 256 MB. The publisher sets the CONTACT_EMAIL environment variable on the Actor (used only in the SEC User-Agent). Run locally: npm install, set CONTACT_EMAIL, put your input in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json, then npm start (or apify run). Tests: npm test.