SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper - Insider Trades & Reports

This SEC EDGAR scraper turns the official SEC filings database into a clean feed — give it a stock ticker (or company name) and get one row per filing: the form type with a plain-English label, filing & report dates, the filer, accession number, and direct links to the filing index and primary document. Filter to a specific form — Form 4 insider trades, 8-K material events, 10-K annual reports, 13F institutional holdings, S-1 IPOs — and by date. Export to CSV, JSON, or Excel.

Built for investors, equity & credit analysts, compliance teams, fintech builders, and journalists who want a clean, queryable filings/insider-trade feed — not EDGAR's raw 1990s interface. Official SEC data (data.sec.gov), no API key, no anti-bot.

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Why use this

• Parsed Form 4 insider transactions — the killer feature. For Form 3/4/5 filings it fetches the ownership XML and returns the full transaction table (security, code + plain-English label, shares, price, value, shares owned after) plus the insider's name and role (director / officer + title / 10% owner). Competitors stop at a link to the document.
• Buy/sell signal_score (-100…+100) — every insider filing is classified (open-market buy = bullish, sale = bearish, grant/exercise/tax = routine) with total_bought_value, total_sold_value, and net_transaction_value, so you can rank real conviction trades.
• Company profile on every row — SIC industry, exchange, fiscal-year-end, state of incorporation, entity category — joined automatically.
• Ticker → filings in one step — you give AAPL; it resolves the CIK and pulls the filings (no CIK lookup needed).
• Plain-English form labels — 4 → "Insider trade", 8-K → "Material event", 13F-HR → "Institutional holdings".
• Direct document links — jump straight to the filing's primary document and index.
• Form + date filters — e.g. only Form 4 insider trades since a date, across several tickers at once.
• Authoritative + free — straight from the SEC, no key, no proxies.

Input

Field	Type	Description
tickers	array	Stock tickers, e.g. ["AAPL","NVDA"].
companyName	string	Company-name search (partial).
ciks	array	SEC CIKs (advanced).
formType	string	Keep forms starting with this — 4, 8-K, 10-K, 13F, SC 13.
dateFrom	string	Filings on/after YYYY-MM-DD.
parseInsiderTransactions	boolean	Parse Form 3/4/5 ownership XML into the transaction table + signal. Default true.
maxInsiderDocs	integer	Cap on insider docs parsed per run (each is one extra SEC request).
maxItems	integer	Max filings total. Default 200.
maxPerCompany	integer	Cap per company (≤1000).

Example input:

{ "tickers": ["AAPL", "NVDA"], "formType": "4", "dateFrom": "2025-01-01", "maxItems": 500 }

JSON output sample

{
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "company": "Apple Inc.",
  "cik": 320193,
  "company_sic": "3571",
  "company_industry": "Electronic Computers",
  "company_exchange": "Nasdaq",
  "fiscal_year_end": "0928",
  "state_of_incorporation": "CA",
  "form": "4",
  "form_label": "Insider trade",
  "filing_date": "2025-05-14",
  "report_date": "2025-05-12",
  "accession_number": "0000320193-25-000057",
  "primary_doc_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019325000057/xslF345X05/...",
  "filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019325000057/",
  "insider_name": "Newstead Jennifer",
  "insider_role": "SVP, GC and Secretary",
  "insider_is_officer": true,
  "transactions": [
    { "security": "Common Stock", "date": "2025-05-12", "code": "S", "code_label": "Open-market sale",
      "acquired_disposed": "D", "shares": 16238, "price_per_share": 296.42, "value": 4813267.96, "shares_owned_after": 41546 }
  ],
  "transaction_count": 1,
  "total_bought_value": 0.0,
  "total_sold_value": 4813267.96,
  "net_transaction_value": -4813267.96,
  "insider_signal": "Bearish — open-market sale",
  "signal_score": -55,
  "is_xbrl": false,
  "size": 12345
}

Results render as a clean, sortable table (newest first) and export to CSV, JSON, or Excel.

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Use cases

• Insider-trade tracking — pull Form 4s across a watchlist of tickers and watch executive buying/selling.
• Event monitoring — schedule 8-K pulls to catch material events (M&A, exec changes, results).
• Fundamental research — grab the latest 10-K/10-Q with direct document links.
• 13F / activist watch — track institutional holdings and SC 13D/G ownership stakes.
• Compliance / journalism — a clean, dated, linkable filings trail.

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Use with AI agents & automation

Run from the Apify MCP server so AI agents can pull filings as a tool call, schedule it via Make, n8n, or Zapier to alert on new Form 4s / 8-Ks for a watchlist, or sync to Google Sheets. Clean flat JSON drops into a trading/research pipeline with no glue code.

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Pricing

Pay-per-event — charged per filing delivered. Source is the free public SEC EDGAR API (no proxy cost). See the Apify Store page for the current price.

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FAQ

Where's the data from? The official SEC EDGAR data API (data.sec.gov) and the SEC ticker→CIK map — public US government data.

Do I need an API key? No.

How far back does it go? The SEC "recent" feed holds up to ~1000 of each company's latest filings; use formType + dateFrom to scope it.

Does Form 4 include the trade details? Yes — with parseInsiderTransactions on (default), the actor fetches each Form 3/4/5 ownership XML and returns the full parsed transaction table (insider name + role, transaction code with a plain-English label, shares, price, total value, shares owned after) plus a buy/sell signal_score. Turn it off, or lower maxInsiderDocs, for faster link-only runs.

Can I export to CSV or Google Sheets? Yes — CSV, JSON, or Excel, or sync via Make/n8n/Zapier.

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