# SEC EDGAR Filings & Insider Trades Monitor (`snappytools/sec-edgar-filings-monitor`) Actor

This Actor monitors the official, public SEC EDGAR submissions API (data.sec.gov) for filings by the companies you choose. Provide stock tickers or CIK numbers and the Actor resolves them through the SEC public ticker file, downloads each company's recent submission history, filters by form type.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/snappytools/sec-edgar-filings-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Snappy](https://apify.com/snappytools) (community)
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## Pricing

$2.10 / 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?

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

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

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# README

## SEC EDGAR Filings and Insider Trades Monitor

### What it does

This Actor monitors the official, public SEC EDGAR submissions API (data.sec.gov) for filings by the companies you choose. Provide stock tickers or CIK numbers and the Actor resolves them through the SEC public ticker file, downloads each company's recent submission history, filters by form type (for example 8-K current reports, 10-K annual reports and Form 4 insider transaction reports) and by filing date, and writes clean, deduplicated records to the default dataset. Each record contains a stable id based on the accession number, a canonical https link to the filing index and primary document, the filing and report dates, the form type, and company identifiers. It is designed for scheduled runs that feed alerting, research and compliance workflows.

### Use cases

- Equity analysts and portfolio managers tracking material events (8-K) for a watchlist.
- Compliance teams monitoring insider transactions (Form 4) for covered issuers.
- Investor relations and competitive intelligence teams following annual and quarterly reports.
- Data engineers feeding filing metadata into dashboards, Slack alerts or RAG pipelines.

### Input

- companies (required): tickers or CIKs, up to 25 entries.
- formTypes: forms to include, such as 8-K, 10-K, 4. Empty means all forms.
- sinceDate: YYYY-MM-DD lower bound for filing date.
- maxResultsPerCompany: 1 to 200, default 20.
- userAgent: contact string sent to the SEC, as its fair access policy requires.

### Output

Each dataset item has: id, accessionNumber, cik, ticker, companyName, form, filingDate, reportDate, acceptanceDateTime, primaryDocument, primaryDocDescription, url, indexUrl, scrapedAt.

### Example

Input:

{"companies": \["AAPL"], "formTypes": \["8-K"], "maxResultsPerCompany": 1}

Sample output:

{"id": "0000320193-24-000123", "accessionNumber": "0000320193-24-000123", "cik": "0000320193", "ticker": "AAPL", "companyName": "Apple Inc.", "form": "8-K", "filingDate": "2024-11-01", "reportDate": "2024-10-31", "acceptanceDateTime": "2024-11-01T16:30:00.000Z", "primaryDocument": "aapl-20241031.htm", "primaryDocDescription": "8-K", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019324000123/aapl-20241031.htm", "indexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019324000123/", "scrapedAt": "2024-11-02T08:00:00.000Z"}

### Limits and data provenance

All data comes from public SEC EDGAR endpoints: https://www.sec.gov/files/company_tickers.json and https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK##########.json. No login, credentials or access-control bypass is used. The Actor sends a descriptive User-Agent and pauses between requests to stay well under the SEC limit of 10 requests per second. Only the recent submissions block (roughly the last 1,000 filings per company) is read. Input is capped at 25 companies and 200 records per company. Filing contents are not parsed; records describe filing metadata and link to the original documents. Unknown tickers are logged and skipped. EDGAR data is provided by the SEC as-is; verify critical information against the original filing.

# Actor input Schema

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

List of US stock tickers (e.g. AAPL) or numeric SEC CIK numbers to monitor. Maximum 25 entries.

## `formTypes` (type: `array`):

SEC form types to include, such as 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q or 4. Leave empty to include all forms.

## `sinceDate` (type: `string`):

Only output filings with a filing date on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave empty for no date filter.

## `maxResultsPerCompany` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of filing records emitted per company, between 1 and 200.

## `userAgent` (type: `string`):

User-Agent header with a contact name and email, as required by SEC fair access policy.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "AAPL",
    "MSFT"
  ],
  "formTypes": [
    "8-K",
    "10-K",
    "4"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerCompany": 20,
  "userAgent": "ApifyActor sec-edgar-filings-monitor contact@example.com"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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",
        "MSFT"
    ],
    "formTypes": [
        "8-K",
        "10-K",
        "4"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("snappytools/sec-edgar-filings-monitor").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",
        "MSFT",
    ],
    "formTypes": [
        "8-K",
        "10-K",
        "4",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("snappytools/sec-edgar-filings-monitor").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",
    "MSFT"
  ],
  "formTypes": [
    "8-K",
    "10-K",
    "4"
  ]
}' |
apify call snappytools/sec-edgar-filings-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,snappytools/sec-edgar-filings-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

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/VS86rpB3Lb1zARaUv/builds/otchsPovFhBWXUuUY/openapi.json