SEC Form N-CEN Fund Census Filings Scraper API

Search official SEC EDGAR EFTS metadata for annual Form N-CEN registered-fund census filings. Use it for source-linked fund filing research, filing-monitoring, annual-period checks, and amendment discovery without scraping SEC search pages.

Default and price

The deterministic empty-input default requests exactly:

https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?forms=N-CEN&from=0&size=1

It returns one latest N-CEN filing. At $0.0001 per start + $0.002 per dataset item, the default costs at most $0.0021. maxResults is a total output cap, and the actor reduces it before querying when an Apify maximum-total-charge budget requires that.

Inputs

{"maxResults":1,"maxCandidates":1,"sortBy":"latest","includeAmendments":false}

Search a fund name and include amendments:

{"query":"BlackRock","includeAmendments":true,"filingDateFrom":"2026-01-01","maxResults":10,"maxCandidates":50}

Exact identifiers and research filters are also supported: cik, accessionNumber, filing-date range, period-ending range, two-letter business state, and latest/oldest sorting. Period/state filters are applied to a disclosed bounded EFTS candidate window. Increase maxCandidates (up to 500) when broader filtered coverage matters.

Output evidence

Each found row has stable fields for accession, CIK, filer display name, filing date, period ending, file/film number, form, schema/XSL metadata, business/incorporation location, primary document, official SEC filing-document and filing-index URLs, the exact EFTS query URL, retrieval timestamp, reported hit count, candidates scanned, scan-limit status, and claim limits. Non-found runs emit explicit NO_MATCH, INVALID_INPUT, SOURCE_UNAVAILABLE, or CHARGE_LIMIT outcomes instead of silent emptiness.

Important interpretation limits

Form N-CEN is registered-fund filer-submitted annual census information. It can be amended and can lag current conditions. A filing or field is not SEC endorsement, audit, investment advice, performance evidence, or a complete current ownership or risk determination. A missing result inside a bounded search does not prove that a fund or filing does not exist. Review the linked filing, later amendments, and other current primary sources before making material decisions.

The client uses only official sec.gov EFTS/archive surfaces, sends an identifying User-Agent, rate-limits requests, and retries bounded transport, response-read, HTTP 408/429/5xx, and malformed-JSON failures.