SEC Insider Trading Scraper — Form 4 Buys & Sells

Scrape public SEC Form 4 insider transaction disclosures for any U.S. stock by ticker or CIK number. Get insider buys, sells, grants, and options exercises as structured data — no API key required.

What is Form 4?

SEC Form 4 is a mandatory public disclosure that corporate insiders (officers, directors, and shareholders owning 10%+ of a company's stock) must file within 2 business days of any transaction in their company's securities. This actor scrapes that legally-required, publicly available data from the official SEC EDGAR system.

Use cases

• Insider trading data — monitor when corporate executives buy or sell their company's stock
• SEC Form 4 scraper — bulk-download insider transactions for quantitative research
• Insider buys sells by ticker — filter to purchases (code P) or sales (code S) for any stock
• Insider transactions API — programmatic access to the same data available on sec.gov
• Corporate governance research — track director and officer equity activity
• Sentiment signals — insider buying is widely used as a bullish sentiment indicator

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
tickersOrCiks	string[]	Yes	Ticker symbols (e.g. AAPL) or raw SEC CIK numbers (e.g. 320193). Mixed lists are supported.
sinceDate	string	No	Only return filings on or after this ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD).
transactionCodes	string[]	No	Filter to specific transaction codes: P (buy), S (sell), A (grant), M (exercise), F (withholding). Omit for all.
maxFilings	integer	No	Maximum Form 4 filings to process per company (after sinceDate filter). Each filing may produce multiple transaction rows.
userAgent	string	No	User-Agent header for SEC requests. SEC policy requires a descriptive UA with your contact email.

Example input

{
  "tickersOrCiks": ["AAPL", "NVDA", "MSFT"],
  "sinceDate": "2024-01-01",
  "transactionCodes": ["P", "S"],
  "maxFilings": 20,
  "userAgent": "MyResearchTool/1.0 research@mycompany.com"
}

Output

Each row in the dataset is one transaction from a Form 4 filing:

Field	Type	Description
issuer	string	Company name (e.g. "Apple Inc.")
issuerTicker	string?	Ticker symbol (e.g. "AAPL")
insiderName	string	Reporting insider's name
insiderRelationship	string	"Officer", "Director", "10% Owner", or combinations
insiderTitle	string?	Officer title if applicable (e.g. "CEO", "CFO")
transactionDate	string	ISO date of the transaction (YYYY-MM-DD)
transactionCode	string	SEC transaction code (P, S, A, M, F, G, …)
transactionType	string	Human label: "Buy", "Sell", "Grant", "Exercise", "Withholding", "Gift", "Other"
securityTitle	string	Security name (e.g. "Common Stock", "Restricted Stock Unit")
shares	number	Number of shares in the transaction
pricePerShare	number?	Price per share (absent for grants/RSU vestings)
sharesOwnedAfter	number?	Total shares held after the transaction
isDerivative	boolean	true for options/RSUs, false for common stock
accessionNumber	string	SEC accession number (unique filing ID)
filedDate	string	Date filed with the SEC (YYYY-MM-DD)
filingUrl	string	Direct link to the raw Form 4 XML on sec.gov

Transaction codes

Code	Meaning
P	Open-market purchase (insider buys)
S	Open-market sale (insider sells)
A	Grant or award (stock options, RSU grants)
M	Exercise or conversion of derivative (RSU vesting, option exercise)
F	Tax withholding (shares withheld/sold to cover taxes on vesting)
G	Bona fide gift
D	Sale back to issuer
J	Other acquisition or disposition

Data source

All data is fetched from the official SEC EDGAR system:

• https://www.sec.gov/files/company_tickers.json — ticker-to-CIK resolution
• https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK##########.json — filing index
• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/… — raw Form 4 XML documents

No API key is required. The SEC requires a descriptive User-Agent header identifying your application and a contact email — set this via the userAgent input field. See SEC webmaster FAQ.

Rate limiting

The actor automatically respects SEC's rate limit (max ~10 requests/second) with a built-in 120ms per-host minimum interval.

Legal notice

This actor collects publicly available information that corporate insiders are legally required to disclose under Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Use of this data for trading decisions is subject to applicable securities laws. This tool does not facilitate or encourage illegal insider trading — it only surfaces legal public disclosures.