SEC EDGAR API · Filings, Full-Text Search & Financials

Query the U.S. SEC EDGAR system as clean JSON — company filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, Form 4, S-1, 13F…), full-text search across every filing since 2001, XBRL financial statements over time, and company profiles. Official government data. No API key, no subscription, no call caps — pay per record.

Built for fintech and investment tools, compliance/KYC teams, researchers, journalists, and AI agents that need reliable SEC data without wrestling EDGAR's raw endpoints.

Why this actor

• 4 data types, one actor — filings lists, full-text search, financials (XBRL), company profiles.
• Ticker or CIK — pass AAPL or 0000320193; tickers are resolved automatically.
• Full-text search across all filers — find every filing mentioning a phrase, filtered by form type and date. (e.g. every 10-K that mentions "large language model".)
• Real financial statements — revenue, net income, assets, equity, EPS, cash flow and more as clean annual & quarterly time series, pulled from XBRL (handles the different tags companies use).
• Direct filing URLs — every filing row links straight to the primary document on sec.gov.
• Monitoring mode — schedule runs and return only new filings via a persistent dedup store. Perfect for watching a portfolio for fresh 8-Ks, Form 4 insider trades, or 10-Ks.
• Compliant by design — proper SEC User-Agent and ≤10 requests/second throttling built in.

Use cases

You are a…	You use it to…
Fintech / investing tool	Pull fundamentals & filings for your coverage universe
Compliance / KYC	Monitor companies for new 8-Ks, ownership changes, Form 4s
Quant / researcher	Backfill XBRL financial time series across many tickers
Journalist / analyst	Full-text search filings for a phrase, person, or risk factor
AI / RAG / MCP agent	Give an agent an SEC filings & financials tool

Input

Field	Type	Description
dataType	string	filings, search, financials, or company.
companies	array	Tickers or CIKs (for filings/financials/company).
searchQuery	string	Text/phrase for full-text search (quotes = exact phrase).
forms	array	Form types filter, e.g. 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, 4, S-1, 13F-HR.
startDate / endDate	string	YYYY-MM-DD date range.
concepts	array	Financial line-items for financials (revenue, netIncome, assets…).
maxFilingsPerCompany	integer	Cap filings per company.
maxSearchResults	integer	Cap total full-text search results.
dedupAcrossRuns	boolean	Return only NEW records vs previous runs (monitoring).
userAgentContact	string	Your name/email for SEC's fair-access User-Agent (optional).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy recommended.

Example — a company's recent filings

{ "dataType": "filings", "companies": ["AAPL", "MSFT"], "forms": ["10-K", "10-Q", "8-K"], "maxFilingsPerCompany": 20 }

Example — full-text search

{ "dataType": "search", "searchQuery": "\"climate risk\"", "forms": ["10-K"], "startDate": "2025-01-01", "maxSearchResults": 100 }

Example — financials

{ "dataType": "financials", "companies": ["NVDA"], "concepts": ["revenue", "netIncome", "eps", "assets"] }

Output

Filing item:

{
  "dataType": "filing", "ticker": "AAPL", "company": "Apple Inc.", "form": "10-K",
  "filingDate": "2025-11-01", "reportDate": "2025-09-27", "accessionNumber": "0000320193-25-000123",
  "primaryDocument": "aapl-20250927.htm", "isXBRL": true,
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019325000123/aapl-20250927.htm"
}

Financials item: concept, xbrlTag, label, unit, latestValue, latestPeriodEnd, and a points array of { value, start, end, fiscalYear, fiscalPeriod, form, filed }.

Search item: matching form, filingDate, companies, cik, accessionNumber, and filingUrl. Company item: name, sic, sicDescription, tickers, exchanges, stateOfIncorporation, fiscalYearEnd, business address, and filings count.

A run summary is saved to the key-value store under SUMMARY.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: charged per record returned (one filing, one search hit, one financial-concept series, or one company profile), plus a small per-run start fee. No subscription, no per-call caps. See the Pricing tab for the live rate.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? Directly from the SEC's official EDGAR system (data.sec.gov, efts.sec.gov, sec.gov/Archives). It's public U.S. government data.

How far back does full-text search go? EDGAR full-text search covers filings from 2001 to today.

Why do revenue values use different XBRL tags? Companies tag the same concept differently; the actor tries the common tags and returns whichever the filer used (shown in xbrlTag).

Can I monitor for new filings? Yes — set dedupAcrossRuns: true with a dedupStoreName and schedule it; each run returns only filings not seen before.

Limitations

• Financial data reflects what companies report in XBRL; very old or non-standard filings may lack some concepts.
• Full-text search deep-paging is capped by EDGAR at 10,000 results per query — narrow with form/date filters for exhaustive coverage.
• Not investment advice; for informational use.