🛡️ SEC Investor Alerts Scraper

🚀 Export SEC investor alerts and bulletins from Investor.gov in seconds.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-26 · 📊 7 fields per record · Investor alerts + bulletins · all SEC categories · 7 fields per release

The SEC Office of Investor Education and Advocacy publishes alerts and bulletins on Investor.gov warning the public about scams, new products, and rule changes. This Actor turns that feed into a clean dataset, one row per alert and 7 fields covering type, category, posted date, summary, and source URL.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Financial educators	Curate consumer-warning content
Journalists	Track new scam typologies
Compliance teams	Match alerts to in-house policies
Researchers	Study SEC public-education trends

📋 What the SEC Investor Alerts Scraper does

• Queries the public SEC Investor Alerts source and structures the response
• Returns one record per item with 7 normalized fields
• Supports pagination and optional filters
• Outputs to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML via Apify dataset
• Auto-limits to 10 items on the free plan; up to 1,000,000 on paid

💡 Why it matters: SEC Investor Alerts data is public record. This Actor makes it usable.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
maxItems	integer	Cap on rows (free: 10)
category	enum	Filter by SEC division (optional)

{ "maxItems": 50 }

{ "maxItems": 100, "category": "enforcement" }

⚠️ Good to Know: Investor.gov mixes Alerts (warnings) and Bulletins (educational). The type field distinguishes them.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🔹 title	string	Alert or bulletin title
🔹 type	string	Investor Alert or Investor Bulletin
🔹 category	string	SEC division (Enforcement, IM, TM, CF)
🔹 postedDate	string	Published date
🔹 summary	string	Plain-text summary
🔹 url	string	Investor.gov page URL
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of when the record was collected
❌ error	string | null	Error message if extraction failed

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Direct SEC Investor Alerts source, no third-party caching
• Real-time data, never stale
• Pay-per-result pricing; only charged for what you keep
• Works with Make, Zapier, n8n, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Sheets

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Maintenance	Coverage
Manual Investor.gov browsing	Free	Medium	No structure
News aggregators	$$	None	Indirect coverage
This actor	Pay per result	None	Direct feed

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open the Actor page
3. Set maxItems and any optional filters
4. Run
5. Download dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Business use cases

Competitor & market intelligence

Track SEC Investor Alerts entries relevant to your sector.

Compliance monitoring

Spot regulatory or enforcement signals in your industry feed.

Lead generation

Use SEC Investor Alerts entries as a clean prospect list.

Risk & due diligence

Vet counterparties or candidates against the official record.

🔌 Automating SEC Investor Alerts Scraper

Connects with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, and Google Drive via Apify's standard integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Academic studies on regulation, public policy, and enforcement trends.

Personal

Citizens following developments in their communities.

Non-profit

Watchdog organizations and civic-tech projects auditing the record.

Experimentation

Train models on labeled regulatory data.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Is the data real-time? A: Yes. Investor.gov is queried at run time. Q: Can I filter by category? A: Yes: corporation-finance, enforcement, investment-management, trading-and-markets. Q: How far back does data go? A: All alerts and bulletins currently listed on Investor.gov. Q: Is this affiliated with the SEC? A: No. Independent tool using public pages. Q: Are PDFs returned? A: No, only the page URL. Q: Do you parse full body text? A: A summary is returned. Visit the URL for full body. Q: How are duplicates handled? A: We deduplicate by URL across pages. Q: What if Investor.gov changes structure? A: We monitor and update parsing. Q: Can I run this daily? A: Yes, schedule via Apify scheduler. Q: What are the SEC divisions? A: Corporation Finance, Enforcement, Investment Management, Trading & Markets.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Sheets, Webhooks, REST API.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the SEC Investor Alerts source agency or any government. Only publicly available data collected.