SEC EDGAR Scraper: Filings, Form 4 Insider Trades and XBRL Financials

Get SEC EDGAR data as clean rows from SEC's own free APIs. Enter a ticker or CIK and get the company's filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statements, S-1s and every other form) with direct document links, every insider transaction parsed from Form 4, or reported financial figures (revenue, net income, assets, EPS) by period. You can also run EDGAR full-text search across all filings since 2001. $0.50 per 1,000 results, no API key or SEC account needed.

What can this SEC EDGAR scraper do?

• Filings by company: any number of tickers or CIK numbers, filtered by form type and date range, newest first, with links to the main document, the filing index and the full submission text. 8-K item numbers come with their names (for example 2.02 Results of Operations).
• Insider trades (Form 4): one row per transaction with the insider's name, role (director, officer title, 10% owner), transaction code and its meaning, shares, price, value, shares owned after the trade, direct or indirect ownership, 10b5-1 plan flag and the footnotes that explain the trade. Works for a company (all its insiders) or for an insider's own CIK (all their trades across companies).
• Full-text search: words or exact phrases such as "going concern" or "material weakness", optionally limited to form types, companies and dates. Returns the matching document, company, form, filing date and links.
• Company facts (XBRL): chosen us-gaap, ifrs-full or dei concepts, or every concept a company reports, one row per period and value, with the filing it came from.

What data do you get?

Mode	Key fields
Filings	companyName, ticker, cik, formType, filingDate, reportDate, acceptanceDateTime, accessionNumber, items, itemDescriptions, documentUrl, filingIndexUrl, fullSubmissionUrl
Insider trades	issuerTicker, insiderName, insiderCik, insiderRole, transactionDate, transactionCode, transactionCodeDescription, acquiredDisposed, shares, pricePerShare, transactionValue, sharesOwnedAfter, directOrIndirect, isDerivative, rule10b5_1Plan, footnotes, documentUrl, xmlUrl
Full-text search	companyName, tickers, ciks, formType, filingDate, periodEnding, documentType, documentDescription, documentUrl, filingIndexUrl
Company facts	concept, label, unit, value, periodStart, periodEnd, frame, fiscalYear, fiscalPeriod, formType, filedDate, accessionNumber

Who uses it?

• Investors and analysts tracking insider buying and selling, new 8-Ks and annual reports for a watchlist.
• Quant and data teams pulling standardized financial figures across many companies without parsing HTML.
• Compliance, KYB and due diligence teams checking a company's filing history and searching for risk language.
• Journalists and researchers finding every filing that mentions a phrase, product or person.
• Developers and AI agents that need SEC data in JSON without writing their own EDGAR client.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free (or Start).
2. Choose What to get: filings, insider trades, full-text search or company facts.
3. Enter Companies as tickers (AAPL, BRK.B) or CIK numbers. For full-text search, enter a search query and leave companies empty to search all filers.
4. Optionally set form types, a date range and maximum results per company.
5. Run it and export to Excel, CSV or JSON, or schedule it daily to catch new filings and insider trades.

Input example

{
  "mode": "filings",
  "companies": [
    "AAPL"
  ],
  "formTypes": [
    "10-K",
    "10-Q",
    "8-K"
  ],
  "maxResults": 50
}

More examples:

{"mode": "insiderTrades", "companies": ["NVDA", "TSLA"], "transactionCodes": ["P", "S"], "daysBack": 90, "maxResults": 200}
{"mode": "fullTextSearch", "searchQuery": "\"going concern\"", "formTypes": ["10-K"], "startDate": "2026-09-01", "onePerFiling": true, "maxResults": 250}
{"mode": "companyFacts", "companies": ["MSFT", "AAPL"], "concepts": ["Revenues", "NetIncomeLoss", "EarningsPerShareDiluted"], "periodType": "annual"}

Output example

A filing (from the default run):

{
  "type": "filing",
  "cik": 320193,
  "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "formType": "8-K",
  "filingDate": "2026-11-02",
  "reportDate": "2026-11-02",
  "acceptanceDateTime": "2026-11-02T21:30:23.000Z",
  "accessionNumber": "0000320193-26-000024",
  "description": "8-K",
  "items": [
    "2.02",
    "9.01"
  ],
  "itemDescriptions": [
    "Results of Operations and Financial Condition",
    "Financial Statements and Exhibits"
  ],
  "fileNumber": "001-36743",
  "filmNumber": "261512821",
  "act": "34",
  "sizeBytes": 420455,
  "isXBRL": true,
  "isInlineXBRL": true,
  "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000024/aapl-20261102.htm",
  "filingIndexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000024/0000320193-26-000024-index.htm",
  "fullSubmissionUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000024/0000320193-26-000024.txt"
}

An insider transaction (from a real run, Apple Form 4):

{
  "type": "insiderTransaction",
  "issuerName": "Apple Inc.",
  "issuerTicker": "AAPL",
  "insiderName": "Newstead Jennifer",
  "insiderCik": "0001780525",
  "insiderRole": "SVP, GC and Government Affairs",
  "isDerivative": false,
  "securityTitle": "Common Stock",
  "transactionDate": "2026-10-27",
  "transactionCode": "S",
  "transactionCodeDescription": "Open market or private sale",
  "acquiredDisposed": "D",
  "shares": 2399,
  "pricePerShare": 343.36,
  "transactionValue": 823720.64,
  "sharesOwnedAfter": 32396,
  "directOrIndirect": "D",
  "footnotes": ["This transaction was made pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the reporting person on May 5, 2026."],
  "rule10b5_1Plan": true,
  "formType": "4",
  "filingDate": "2026-10-29",
  "accessionNumber": "0001140361-26-041201",
  "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126041201/xslF345X06/form4.xml",
  "xmlUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126041201/form4.xml"
}

How much does it cost?

Event	Price	Per 1,000
Result row (filing, insider transaction, search hit or financial fact)	$0.0005	$0.50

Plus a $0.00005 start fee per run. Examples: the latest 50 filings for one company cost about $0.03; a year of Form 4 transactions for 20 large companies (about 5,000 rows) costs $2.50; 10 years of 9 headline figures for 100 companies costs well under $1 with one value per period.

Volume discounts on higher Apify plans. The prices above are for the Apify Free plan. On paid plans the per-result price drops automatically: about 15% lower on Bronze, 25% lower on Silver and 38% lower on Gold and above.

Use it via API, Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent

Apify API. Start a run and get the results back in one HTTP request (replace YOUR_API_TOKEN with the token from Apify Console > Settings > Integrations):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/plotpointtech~sec-edgar-filings-insider-trades/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode": "filings", "companies": ["AAPL"], "formTypes": ["10-K", "10-Q", "8-K"], "maxResults": 50}'

For longer jobs, start the run asynchronously and read the dataset when it finishes. Official apify-client libraries exist for Python and JavaScript; the API tab on this page has ready-made code.

No-code automation. Connect the tool to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable or any webhook with Apify integrations, and use Schedules in Apify Console to run it hourly, daily or weekly.

AI agents (MCP). Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP-compatible agent direct access to this tool through the hosted Apify MCP server. Add this server URL to your client:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=plotpointtech/sec-edgar-filings-insider-trades

The agent can then call the tool with the same input fields shown above and read the results.

FAQ

Is this legal and allowed by the SEC? Yes. EDGAR data is public US government information, and the tool uses SEC's official endpoints (data.sec.gov, EDGAR full-text search and the EDGAR archives). It follows SEC's fair-access policy: it identifies itself with a company name and contact email and stays under 10 requests per second. Respect the same policy if you use the links it returns at scale.

Which forms are covered? All of them in filings and full-text search modes. Insider trades mode reads Form 4 (and 4/A if amendments are on). Older Form 4 filings submitted on paper before 2003 have no XML and are skipped.

Why is the price empty for some insider transactions? Grants, RSU vesting and option exercises often have no price; the reason is usually in footnotes. When a sale was executed in several trades, Form 4 reports the weighted average price, and the footnote gives the range.

What does "one value per period" do in company facts mode? Companies repeat prior-year figures in later filings. With this on, you get SEC's de-duplicated value for each calendar period (frame). Note that fiscalYear and fiscalPeriod describe the filing that reported the value, not the period itself; use periodStart and periodEnd.

How many full-text search results can I get? EDGAR full-text search returns up to 10,000 hits per query and covers filings since 2001. Narrow very broad searches by form type or date.

Can I monitor new filings? Yes. Schedule the tool daily with daysBack: 1 and connect it to Slack, email or a spreadsheet.

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Plot Point Technologies is not affiliated with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Data is provided as filed; check the linked filing before making investment decisions.

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