SEC EDGAR Filing Search (Full-Text)

Full-text search across SEC EDGAR — the official U.S. securities filings database — and get back clean, unified JSON: company name, ticker, form type, filing date, CIK, location and a direct filing link. Filter by query, form type and date range.

No API key, no scraping. SEC's full-text search API is official and public (SEC only requires a descriptive User-Agent). This actor normalizes the response into one flat, predictable record per filing.

What you get — one record per filing

{
  "accession": "0001683168-20-000837",
  "companyName": "RadNet, Inc. (RDNT) (CIK 0000790526)",
  "cik": "790526",
  "form": "8-K",
  "fileDate": "2020-03-16",
  "fileDescription": "TRANSCRIPT OF CONFERENCE CALL",
  "location": "Los Angeles, CA",
  "sic": "8071",
  "items": ["8.01", "9.01"],
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/790526/000168316820000837/0001683168-20-000837-index.htm",
  "source": "SEC EDGAR"
}

Input

Field	Type	Example	Meaning
query	string	"\"artificial intelligence\""	Full-text query (quotes = exact phrase).
forms	string	"8-K,10-K"	Comma-separated form types.
dateFrom / dateTo	string	"2026-01-01"	Date range (YYYY-MM-DD).
maxResults	int	50	Max filings (1–100).

Who this is for

• Investors / analysts tracking disclosures by topic or company.
• Fintech / research products needing structured filing data.
• Compliance / legal monitoring form activity.
• Journalists searching filings full-text.

Pricing

Billed per returned filing (pay-per-event). Set your price in the Apify Console.

Legal

Uses only the official, public SEC EDGAR full-text search API, with a descriptive User-Agent per SEC fair-access policy. No login-gated data, no scraping circumvention.

Developer notes

The fetch + normalize core is in src/sec_source.py with no Apify SDK dependency:

$python -m src.sec_source

Who uses this

• Investors & analysts — full-text-search 8-Ks and 10-Ks for topics (e.g. "artificial intelligence", "cybersecurity incident") the moment they hit EDGAR.
• Journalists — find which companies mention a phrase in official filings, with direct links.
• Compliance & legal teams — monitor filings mentioning your client, product or litigation topic.
• Quant / data teams — build event datasets from filing metadata without wrestling SEC's raw API.

Pricing — pay only for what you get

This actor uses Apify's pay-per-event model: you pay $3 per 1,000 results (plus a negligible $0.00005 per start). No subscription, no minimum.

Concretely: scanning the latest 100 filings mentioning your phrase costs about $0.30 per run.

Tip: start with maxResults: 10 to see the data shape for ~$0.03, then scale up.

Quick start

1. Click Try for free (Apify gives new accounts free usage credit).
2. Adjust the input (defaults already work) and press Start.
3. When the run finishes, open the Dataset tab and export as JSON, CSV or Excel — or fetch it via the Apify API on a schedule.

Support

Found an issue or need an extra field / another data source? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab — I actively maintain this actor and usually respond within a day.