# SEC Form 4 Insider Trades by Ticker (`se7enmethod/sec-form4-insider-trades`) Actor

Get insider buys, sells, grants and option exercises from official SEC Form 4 filings for any list of tickers or CIKs. Returns insider name, role, transaction code, shares, price, value and holdings after. Free official SEC EDGAR data.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/se7enmethod/sec-form4-insider-trades.md
- **Developed by:** [Patrick Hebert](https://apify.com/se7enmethod) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## SEC Form 4 Insider Trades by Ticker

Pull **insider trading transactions** from official **SEC Form 4** filings for a list of tickers or CIKs: open-market purchases and sales, grants, option exercises, tax withholding and gifts, with insider name, role, shares, price, dollar value and holdings after the trade. Data comes from SEC EDGAR; no scraping of third-party sites, no key, no proxy.

### Use cases

- **Insider-buying screens**: `transactionCodes: ["P"]` across a watchlist.
- **Investor research**: see whether executives are selling and how much they still hold.
- **Scheduled alerts**: run daily with `dateFrom` and integrate with Slack or email.
- **Quant datasets**: export clean, typed insider transactions.

### Input

```json
{ "companies": ["AAPL", "NVDA"], "transactionCodes": ["P", "S"], "dateFrom": "2026-01-01", "maxFilingsPerCompany": 20 }
```

### Output (one row per transaction)

`ticker, insider, role, transactionDate, code, codeMeaning, acquiredOrDisposed, shares, pricePerShare, value, sharesOwnedAfter, filingDate, url`. Companies with no match return `found: false` and are not charged.

### Pricing

Pay per result (per transaction returned).

### Notes

Public SEC data, accessed under SEC fair-access rules (declared User-Agent, well under 10 requests/second). Not affiliated with the SEC. Not investment advice.

# Actor input Schema

## `companies` (type: `array`):

e.g. AAPL, NVDA, 320193.

## `transactionCodes` (type: `array`):

Optional. P = open-market buy, S = sale, A = grant, M = option exercise, F = tax withholding, G = gift.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Filed on or after (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `maxFilingsPerCompany` (type: `integer`):

Max Form 4 filings per company.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Max results.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "AAPL",
    "NVDA"
  ],
  "maxFilingsPerCompany": 20,
  "maxItems": 1000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All results in the default dataset (Overview view selected).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companies": [
        "AAPL",
        "NVDA"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("se7enmethod/sec-form4-insider-trades").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "companies": [
        "AAPL",
        "NVDA",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("se7enmethod/sec-form4-insider-trades").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companies": [
    "AAPL",
    "NVDA"
  ]
}' |
apify call se7enmethod/sec-form4-insider-trades --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,se7enmethod/sec-form4-insider-trades"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/A3ZGKYhUegVjVFnod/builds/0NS3Neb8YmEKejJ7n/openapi.json