SEC Form 4 Insider Trading Scraper: Insider Buys & Sells Alerts

Scrape SEC Form 4 insider trading filings into one clean row per transaction: who bought or sold, how many shares, at what price, and whether it was a pre-planned 10b5-1 trade.

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What it does and who it is for

This Actor reads SEC Form 4 filings from EDGAR (full-text search plus the filing XML itself) and returns one record per transaction: insider name and role, company and ticker, transaction date and code, shares, price per share, total dollar value, shares owned afterwards, ownership type and the 10b5-1 plan flag. Values come from the filed document.

Filter by look-back days or exact dates, tickers, transaction codes (P purchase, S sale, A grant, M option exercise, F tax withholding, G gift and more), insider role, minimum transaction value, derivative transactions, 10b5-1 plan trades and amended filings. Turn on Only new for daily insider-buying alerts.

Use cases

• Investors and traders: spot open-market insider purchases (code P) shortly after filing.
• Quant and research teams: build datasets of insider buys and sells by ticker, role or size.
• Newsletters and finance writers: a daily "largest insider buys" feed.
• Fintech and alerting apps: add structured insider data to your product.
• AI agents: answer "which officers bought more than $250k of their own stock this week?".

Why use this instead of the free official site or API

The underlying data is public and the official sources are free. What this Actor adds is convenience: each filing is turned into analysis-ready transaction rows.

What you need	Official site / API	This Actor
Reading a Form 4	Open each filing; one filing can hold several transactions and several owners	One flat row per transaction, with value (shares × price) calculated when both are reported
Filtering buys vs sells	Not in the filing list	Transaction code filter (default is purchases and sales)
Skipping pre-planned trades	Read the footnotes and checkbox yourself	Exclude 10b5-1 plan trades with one switch; the flag is on every row
Watching specific companies	Look up each company's filings	List of tickers in one input
Only new filings	Track accession numbers yourself	Only new mode with a named alert

If you only need a single lookup now and then, the official site is fine. If you want the same data on a schedule, as flat rows you can feed to a spreadsheet, CRM or agent, this saves the glue work.

Data fields

Field	Type	What it contains
accessionNumber	text	SEC accession number of the filing.
form	text	Form type (4, or 4/A for amendments).
filedDate	date	Date the filing was submitted.
periodOfReport	date	Period of report stated on the filing.
ticker	text	Issuer trading symbol.
issuerName	text	Issuer company name.
issuerCik	text	Issuer SEC Central Index Key.
insiderName	text	Reporting person's name.
insiderCik	text	Reporting person's CIK.
insiderTitle	text	Officer title or relationship stated on the filing.
isOfficer	boolean	Whether the reporting person is an officer.
isDirector	boolean	Whether the reporting person is a director.
isTenPercentOwner	boolean	Whether the reporting person owns more than 10%.
otherReportingOwners	text	Other reporting owners on a joint filing, if any.
securityTitle	text	Title of the security traded.
isDerivative	boolean	true for derivative-table transactions (options, warrants).
transactionDate	date	Date of the transaction.
transactionCode	text	SEC transaction code (P, S, A, M, F, G and so on).
transactionType	text	Plain-language name for the transaction code.
acquiredOrDisposed	text	A for acquired, D for disposed.
shares	integer	Number of shares or units in the transaction.
pricePerShare	number	Price per share, when reported.
transactionValue	number	Shares multiplied by price per share, only when both are reported.
sharesOwnedAfter	integer	Shares owned after the transaction.
ownership	text	Direct or Indirect ownership.
ownershipNature	text	Description of indirect ownership (for example a trust or fund).
underlyingSecurity	text	Underlying security for derivative transactions.
exercisePrice	text	Exercise or conversion price for derivative securities.
tenB5OnePlan	boolean	true when the filing indicates a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.
filingUrl	text	Link to the filing index on EDGAR.
xmlUrl	text	Link to the filing's XML document.
scrapedAt	datetime	When the Actor collected the record (UTC).

Fields a source does not publish are null.

"New since yesterday" alerts

Turn on Only new and the Actor remembers what it has already returned, so each scheduled run delivers only records you have not seen before.

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console and set the input, with Only new since last run switched on and a fixed alert name (stateKey). Example input:

{
  "daysBack": 2,
  "transactionCodes": ["P"],
  "insiderRoles": ["officer", "director"],
  "minTransactionValue": 100000,
  "excludeTenB5One": true,
  "maxResults": 200,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "daily-insider-buys"
}

2. Click Save as task, then open Schedules, create a schedule (for example the cron expression 0 7 * * * for every day at 7:00 in the time zone you pick) and add the task to it.
3. Under the task's Integrations, send the results to Slack, email, Google Sheets, a webhook or your own system.

Insiders must file within two business days of a trade, so a 2-day look-back with Only new catches each filing once.

The first run returns everything that matches your window (all matching transactions from the look-back window); later runs return only unseen records. Use a different alert name for each task so each keeps its own memory. A run with nothing new returns no results.

Cost per run

This Actor uses pay-per-result pricing: $3.00 per 1,000 results ($0.003 per result), with the Apify platform fee included. You are charged for the records a run returns and nothing is added on top for platform usage. A run that finds nothing new returns no results, so it has no per-result charge. The Max results input caps what a run can return (and so what it can cost).

Worked example: a daily alert for open-market purchases above $100,000 that returns 12 transactions costs 12 × $0.003 = $0.036 per run, about $1.08 for a 30-day month. 5,000 transactions cost $15.00.

The pricing is configured in Apify Console; the Pricing tab on this page is the authoritative source if it ever differs from this text.

Example input and output

The output below comes from real test runs of this Actor. Email addresses are masked and very long text is shortened here; the Actor returns the full values.

Input used for the example:

{
  "daysBack": 2,
  "transactionCodes": ["P"],
  "insiderRoles": ["officer", "director"],
  "minTransactionValue": 100000,
  "excludeTenB5One": true,
  "onlyNew": true,
  "stateKey": "daily-insider-buys",
  "maxResults": 200
}

Output (the first 2 records of a test run):

[
  {
    "accessionNumber": "0001193125-26-429073",
    "form": "4",
    "filedDate": "2026-10-22",
    "periodOfReport": "2026-10-22",
    "ticker": "RAPP",
    "issuerName": "Rapport Therapeutics, Inc.",
    "issuerCik": "2012593",
    "insiderName": "PAUL STEVEN M",
    "insiderCik": "1237564",
    "insiderTitle": "Director",
    "isOfficer": false,
    "isDirector": true,
    "isTenPercentOwner": false,
    "otherReportingOwners": null,
    "securityTitle": "Common Stock",
    "isDerivative": false,
    "transactionDate": "2026-10-22",
    "transactionCode": "P",
    "transactionType": "Open-market purchase",
    "acquiredOrDisposed": "A",
    "shares": 35714,
    "pricePerShare": 27.28,
    "transactionValue": 974277.92,
    "sharesOwnedAfter": 77380,
    "ownership": "Indirect",
    "ownershipNature": "By Paul Capital Strategy III Fund LLC",
    "underlyingSecurity": null,
    "exercisePrice": null,
    "tenB5OnePlan": false,
    "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1237564/000119312526429073/0001193125-26-429073-index.htm",
    "xmlUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1237564/000119312526429073/ownership.xml",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T10:41:47.262Z"
  },
  {
    "accessionNumber": "0001193125-26-429071",
    "form": "4",
    "filedDate": "2026-10-22",
    "periodOfReport": "2026-10-22",
    "ticker": "RAPP",
    "issuerName": "Rapport Therapeutics, Inc.",
    "issuerCik": "2012593",
    "insiderName": "MARAGANORE JOHN",
    "insiderCik": "1180432",
    "insiderTitle": "Director",
    "isOfficer": false,
    "isDirector": true,
    "isTenPercentOwner": false,
    "otherReportingOwners": null,
    "securityTitle": "Common Stock",
    "isDerivative": false,
    "transactionDate": "2026-10-22",
    "transactionCode": "P",
    "transactionType": "Open-market purchase",
    "acquiredOrDisposed": "A",
    "shares": 8239,
    "pricePerShare": 26.3799,
    "transactionValue": 217344,
    "sharesOwnedAfter": 8239,
    "ownership": "Indirect",
    "ownershipNature": "By John M. Maraganore Revocable Trust",
    "underlyingSecurity": null,
    "exercisePrice": null,
    "tenB5OnePlan": false,
    "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1180432/000119312526429071/0001193125-26-429071-index.htm",
    "xmlUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1180432/000119312526429071/ownership.xml",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-23T10:41:47.444Z"
  }
]

Limits worth knowing

• Form 4 must be filed within two business days of a trade, so very recent trades may not be filed yet.
• EDGAR search returns at most 10,000 filings per query. Narrow the dates for large pulls.
• Some transactions (grants, gifts, option exercises) have no price, so pricePerShare and transactionValue are null.
• Provide tickers that EDGAR can resolve; if none of the tickers resolve, the run ends with no results.
• The Actor sends a declared User-Agent and keeps a polite request rate, as the SEC requires.

FAQ

What does transactionValue mean?

Shares multiplied by price per share, calculated only when both numbers are in the filing.

What are the transaction codes?

P is an open-market purchase, S a sale, A a grant or award, M an option exercise, F tax withholding and G a gift. The transactionType field spells it out.

Why is a price empty?

Some transactions, such as grants and option exercises, are reported without a price.

Can I exclude pre-planned sales?

Yes. Turn on the 10b5-1 exclusion; every row also carries the tenB5OnePlan flag.

Is this investment advice?

No. It is raw filing data for research.

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Data comes from SEC EDGAR, a US government source. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SEC. It is not investment advice.