SEC Insider Trading Scraper: Form 4 Buys and Sells

This insider trading scraper reads the Form 4 filings that company officers, directors and large shareholders must file with the SEC, and returns every transaction as a clean row. Follow a list of tickers, or leave the company empty to scan all insider filings of a date range. Ask for transactions, or ask for a company summary that shows the net insider buying and selling of the period.

A transaction row carries more than shares and price. You get the insider's name and role, the transaction type in plain words (open market purchase, open market sale, grant, tax withholding, gift, option exercise), the value in dollars, the holdings before and after and the percent of the holdings that changed, how many days the insider took to file, whether the trade was made under a 10b5-1 trading plan, and the footnotes that explain unusual prices or trusts. Company summaries add unique buyers, unique sellers, the net value, the biggest buy and the biggest sale, and a cluster buying flag when three or more insiders bought in the same period.

Investors, analysts, journalists, newsletter writers and quant researchers use it to follow insider sentiment and to build alerts.

What can you do with this insider trading scraper?

• Get every insider buy and sell of a stock in the last 90 days
• Find open market purchases above 100,000 dollars across all companies on one day
• See which companies have cluster buying, meaning several insiders buying together
• Compare net insider buying and selling across a watchlist
• Separate real purchases from grants, tax withholding and option exercises
• Check whether a sale was planned under a 10b5-1 trading plan
• See how much of their holdings an executive sold
• Read the footnotes of a trade to understand trusts and weighted average prices
• Get only new transactions since your last run for a daily alert
• Export insider trading data to CSV or Excel

What data can you extract from Form 4 filings?

Mode	One row is	Highlights
Insider transactions	One transaction	Company, ticker, insider name and role, officer title, filing and transaction dates, days to file, security, transaction code and type, open market buy and sale flags, shares, price, value, acquired or disposed, holdings before and after, holdings change percent, direct or indirect ownership, 10b5-1 plan flag, footnotes, filing link, plus exercise and expiry details for options
Company summary	One company	Filings read, open market buys and sells with shares and value, unique buyers and sellers, net value, buy to sell ratio, sentiment, cluster buying flag, biggest buy and sale, names of insiders who bought

How to scrape insider trading

1. Choose Insider transactions or Company summary.
2. Enter one or more tickers, or leave them empty to scan all companies.
3. Set the filing dates. The default is the last 90 days.
4. Optionally keep only open market trades, a minimum value or certain roles.
5. Set Max Items and click Start.
6. Export the dataset as CSV, Excel or from the Apify console.

Input example

{
  "mode": "transactions",
  "tickers": ["NVDA", "TSLA"],
  "openMarketOnly": true,
  "dateFrom": "2026-06-01",
  "minValueUsd": 100000,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Transaction output example

{
  "ticker": "NVDA",
  "issuerName": "NVIDIA CORP",
  "ownerName": "Teter Timothy S.",
  "ownerRoles": ["Officer"],
  "officerTitle": "EVP, General Counsel and Sec",
  "filingDate": "2026-09-23",
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-21",
  "daysToFile": 2,
  "transactionCode": "S",
  "transactionType": "Open market sale",
  "isOpenMarketSale": true,
  "shares": 12483,
  "pricePerShare": 222.1932,
  "valueUsd": 2773637.72,
  "sharesOwnedBefore": 2718120,
  "sharesOwnedAfter": 2705637,
  "holdingsChangePct": -0.5,
  "ownershipType": "indirect",
  "indirectOwnershipNature": "By Trust",
  "tenB51Plan": true
}

Company summary output example

{
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "issuerName": "Apple Inc.",
  "periodFrom": "2026-08-15",
  "periodTo": "2026-09-29",
  "openMarketBuys": 0,
  "openMarketSells": 6,
  "openMarketSellValueUsd": 3092906.45,
  "uniqueSellers": 1,
  "netOpenMarketValueUsd": -3092906.45,
  "clusterBuying": false,
  "sentiment": "net selling",
  "biggestSell": { "owner": "Newstead Jennifer", "date": "2026-09-22", "shares": 2399, "valueUsd": 815803.94 }
}

How much does it cost to scrape insider trading?

You pay per result: $22 per 1,000 rows plus a tiny start fee. The free plan returns up to 10 rows per run. A company summary is one row per company, so a watchlist of 50 companies costs a few cents.

Tips for better results

• Turn on open market only to see purchases and sales. Grants, tax withholding and option exercises are routine and say little about what insiders think.
• Insider sales made under a 10b5-1 plan are planned in advance. A purchase is usually a stronger signal than a sale.
• Scanning all companies for one day reads thousands of filings and takes a few minutes. Use a minimum value or open market only to keep the dataset short, and set a limit on the filings to read.
• For a daily alert, schedule the Actor every day and turn on the option to return only new transactions.
• Forms are filed within two business days, so recent trades can take a day to appear.

Who uses insider trading data?

• Individual investors watch cluster buying and large purchases by executives.
• Analysts and funds add insider sentiment to their screens.
• Journalists report on executive stock sales.
• Developers power alerts, dashboards and bots.

Automate and connect

Schedule the Actor every day with your watchlist and send the new transactions to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make or n8n, or trigger a webhook when a run ends.

FAQ

Do I need an SEC account? No. The Actor works without any login.

Does it cover Form 3 and Form 5? No. It covers Form 4 and its amendments, which report the transactions.

Why are some prices zero? Grants and awards have no purchase price. Their value is zero.

How far back can I search? Use the filing dates to choose the period. Long periods for many companies mean many filings to read, so start with recent months.

Is this financial advice? No. Insider trading data is public information. Use it as one input among many.

Legal note

This Actor collects information that is publicly visible on the website. Check the source site's terms and your local rules before using the data. Nothing here is financial advice.

Support

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