📋 SEC Material Event Tracker

🚀 Track material corporate events across your whole watchlist at once - scored by significance, straight from official SEC filings. Enter one ticker, or up to 5 comma-separated tickers, and get every 8-K filing event labeled and ranked HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW - executive changes, M&A, bankruptcy, and auditor changes surface first. Built on the official SEC EDGAR API - no scraping, no breakage.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-07-07 · 📊 8 fields per scored filing event · 📋 8-K item scoring · ⚖️ Multi-ticker watchlist · 🔓 No auth required

🎁 Try it free: the free Apify plan returns up to 10 results per run — enough to see the output quality. Any paid Apify plan unlocks full-size runs.

The SEC Material Event Tracker turns a company's raw 8-K filing history into a ranked list of what actually matters. Enter any US public company ticker (or up to 5, comma-separated, to monitor a whole watchlist in one run) and the Actor queries the official SEC EDGAR submissions API, maps every 8-K's item code to a plain-English label, and scores each filing HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW significance.

Not every 8-K matters equally: an executive resignation or an auditor change (HIGH) is a very different signal than routine exhibit filings (LOW). Because each run can cover multiple tickers, comparing 'AAPL, MSFT, TSLA' in one run shows you which companies in a portfolio just had a material event, without opening five EDGAR pages. Results are flat JSON rows ready for CSV, Excel, or direct API consumption.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Retail investors, equity research analysts, compliance teams, financial due-diligence teams, AI research agents	Portfolio monitoring, material-event alerting, due diligence, compliance tracking, automated screening

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📋 What SEC Material Event Tracker does

One input, one run, a clean dataset:

• 📋 Item-code scoring. Every 8-K's item codes mapped to a plain-English label and a HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW significance tier.
• ⚖️ Multi-ticker watchlist. Monitor up to 5 companies in one run, each row tagged with its ticker.
• 🎯 Ranked output. Rows sorted by significance first, so the most material events surface at the top.
• 🔗 Direct filing links. Every row includes a link straight to the filing on SEC EDGAR.

💡 Why it matters: 8-K filings are how public companies disclose material events between quarterly reports, but SEC EDGAR only shows you a bare list of filing dates and forms - you have to open each one to learn what happened. Scoring by item code means you can screen a whole watchlist for HIGH-significance events (executive changes, bankruptcy, M&A) in one run instead of opening every filing.

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🎬 Full demo

🚧 Video walkthrough coming soon — the Quick Start below takes under 3 minutes end to end.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
tickers	string	"AAPL"	Ticker, or comma-separated tickers to monitor (max 5).
daysBack	integer	90	How many days back to search for 8-Ks, per ticker (1-365).
maxResults	integer	20	Filing events to return per ticker, most significant first. Controls cost.

Example: track material events for one company

{
  "tickers": "AAPL",
  "daysBack": 90,
  "maxResults": 20
}

Example: monitor a 3-company watchlist

{
  "tickers": "AAPL, MSFT, TSLA",
  "daysBack": 180,
  "maxResults": 10
}

⚠️ Good to know: Significance tiers are based on the SEC's own Form 8-K item categories (e.g. Item 5.02 Executive Changes, Item 1.03 Bankruptcy = HIGH; Item 2.02 Earnings Results = MEDIUM; Item 9.01 Exhibits = LOW), not sentiment analysis of filing text. maxResults applies per ticker.

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📊 Output

Each scored filing event returns 8 fields. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML, or consume via the Apify API.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🏷️ ticker	string	"AAPL"
🏢 companyName	string	"Apple Inc."
📅 filingDate	string	"2026-05-01"
🔢 accessionNumber	string	"0000320193-26-000047"
🔖 itemCodes	string	"5.02,9.01"
📝 itemLabels	string[]	["Executive/Director Changes"]
🎯 significance	string	"HIGH"
🔗 filingUrl	string	"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/..."

📦 Sample record

{
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
  "filingDate": "2026-05-01",
  "accessionNumber": "0000320193-26-000047",
  "itemCodes": "5.02,9.01",
  "itemLabels": ["Executive/Director Changes", "Financial Statements/Exhibits"],
  "significance": "HIGH",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000047/"
}

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
⚖️	Watchlist, not one lookup. Up to 5 tickers monitored in one run - see which companies just had a material event.
📋	Scored significance, not a raw filing list. Item codes mapped to plain-English labels and a HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW tier.
🎯	Ranked output. Most significant events sort to the top automatically.
⚡	Built on the official SEC EDGAR submissions API. Stable and durable — no breakage from page redesigns.
🔁	Automatic retries. Transient failures retry with backoff; errors are logged clearly, never silent.
💳	Pay per result. No subscription. A typical run costs $0.09 for one ticker (20 events); $0.19 monitoring 3 tickers at 15 results each (45 rows).

📊 Public companies file thousands of 8-Ks a year. Scoring by item code turns a bare filing-date list into a screenable significance ranking in one run.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Setup
⭐ SEC Material Event Tracker (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Any US public company that files 8-Ks with the SEC	Live per run	⚡ 2 min
Bloomberg Terminal / FactSet alerts	$2,000+/month	Full market data + alerts	Live	🏢 Enterprise-only pricing
Manual EDGAR filing review	Free	Whatever you read	One-shot	🐢 Opening every filing manually
Manual copy-paste	Free	Current session only	One-shot	🐢 Hours of clicking

Pick this Actor when you want a scored, watchlist-wide view of material corporate events on demand - per run, not per manual filing check.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free Apify account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the SEC Material Event Tracker page on the Apify Store.
3. ✏️ Set your input. Enter one or more tickers (comma-separated) in tickers — or just press Start, the prefilled example works.
4. 🚀 Run it. Watch results stream into the Dataset tab.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML — or pipe them anywhere via the Apify API.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3–5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

• 💼 Retail investors - screen a watchlist for HIGH-significance events (executive changes, bankruptcy risk) without opening EDGAR.
• 📊 Equity research analysts - pull a scored event history into models or notes without manual filing review.
• 🔍 Due-diligence teams - quick material-event check on an acquisition target or vendor before deeper review.
• 🤖 AI research agents - agent calls the Actor via MCP, screens a portfolio nightly, flags newly-HIGH events automatically.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows:

• 🎓 Research & academia — empirical datasets for papers and coursework; longitudinal studies across scheduled snapshots; reproducible, citable data pulls.
• 🎨 Personal & creative — side projects, dashboards, visualizations; content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters.
• 🤝 Non-profit & civic — transparency reporting, advocacy backed by public-interest data, community databases.
• 🧪 Experimentation — prototype AI/ML pipelines on real data; validate product hypotheses before engineering spend.

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🔌 Automating SEC Material Event Tracker

Control this Actor programmatically for scheduled runs and pipelines:

Node.js (apify-client on NPM):

const { ApifyClient } = require('apify-client');
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('saint_person/sec-material-event-tracker').call({
  "tickers": "AAPL",
  "daysBack": 90,
  "maxResults": 20
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Python (apify-client on PyPI):

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient('YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN')
run = client.actor('saint_person/sec-material-event-tracker').call(run_input={
  "tickers": "AAPL",
  "daysBack": 90,
  "maxResults": 20
})
items = client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).list_items().items

📚 Full Apify API documentation

Apify Schedules triggers this Actor on any cron interval — hourly for fresh monitoring, daily for feeds, weekly for historical datasets.

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🧠 Use via MCP (for AI agents)

SEC Material Event Tracker is directly callable by any MCP-compatible AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and others) through Apify's hosted MCP server — no custom integration code needed.

Add this to your MCP client config (e.g. Claude Desktop's claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/sse?actors=saint_person/sec-material-event-tracker",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

Once connected, just ask your agent something like: "Use the SEC Material Event Tracker Actor to pull scored filing event data for my target and summarize it." The agent reads the input schema automatically and calls the Actor directly — no manual dataset download step.

📚 Apify MCP server docs

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this Actor

Open a ready-to-send prompt in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Enter one ticker, or up to 5 comma-separated tickers, and click Start. For each ticker, the Actor resolves it to its SEC CIK number, queries the official SEC EDGAR submissions API for recent filings, filters to 8-Ks within the requested day range, maps each filing's item code(s) to a plain-English label and significance tier, and returns the results ranked by significance.

🔑 Do I need a SEC account or API key?

No - the Actor works out of the box. SEC EDGAR's API is public and requires no authentication.

🎯 How is significance calculated?

Each 8-K item code maps to a fixed tier based on the SEC's own Form 8-K item categories: HIGH for events like executive changes, M&A completion, bankruptcy, auditor changes, and debt defaults; MEDIUM for earnings results and Reg FD disclosures; LOW for routine items like exhibits. A filing with multiple item codes takes its highest tier.

🌐 Does this cover non-8-K filings like 10-Ks or 10-Qs?

No - this Actor is focused specifically on 8-Ks, the SEC's real-time material-event disclosure form. For financial statement history (revenue, income, balance sheet trends), see the Public Company Financials Actor in this collection.

⏰ Can I schedule regular runs?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run this Actor on any cron interval (hourly, daily, weekly).

⚖️ Is this data legal to collect?

This Actor only collects data that is publicly accessible through the official SEC EDGAR API, a public government data service. No login, no bypass of access controls. You are responsible for complying with the source's Terms of Service and any regulations that apply to your use.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan?

No. The free Apify plan is enough for testing and small runs. Paid plans unlock larger runs, scheduling, and higher concurrency.

🔁 What happens if a run fails?

Transient errors retry automatically with backoff. If a run still fails, the log explains exactly why, and partial results are preserved — you never lose progress.

🆘 What if I need help?

Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab — reliability is the whole point, and issues get fixed with priority. You can also request custom features or entirely new Actors there.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

SEC Material Event Tracker connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Zapier — connect with 5,000+ apps
• Make — automate multi-step workflows
• n8n — self-hosted automation
• Google Sheets — export datasets to a shared sheet
• Slack — run notifications in your channels
• Gmail — email results automatically after each run
• Webhooks — trigger downstream pipelines
• MCP — let AI agents call this Actor directly

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🧩 Works even better together

Pair this Actor with Public Company Financials in this collection: track 5-year revenue/profit trends there, then monitor for material events here - a HIGH-significance auditor change or executive departure often precedes a shift in the financial trend.

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🆘 Help & custom requests

• 🐛 Something not working? Open an issue on this Actor's Issues tab — reliability is the whole point, and issues are fixed with priority.
• 🛠️ Need a custom feature, a different data source, or an entirely new Actor built for you? Open an issue describing what you need — custom builds are available.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available data is collected.