📈 SEC EFFECT Registration Effectiveness Monitor

Turn SEC EFFECT notices into a clean, schedulable dataset. The Actor finds the moment a registration statement is declared effective and returns normalized company, CIK, filing date, effective date, file numbers, referenced forms, accession links, and the original SEC document.

Why this is useful

An EFFECT notice is a concrete regulatory milestone, but it is easy to miss inside the general EDGAR stream. Use it to monitor offerings, follow capital-markets events, trigger diligence, enrich issuer pipelines, or alert analysts when a tracked registration becomes effective.

📥 Input

• daysBack: rolling lookback (1–31 days), ideal for schedules.
• startDate and endDate: optional fixed range; provide both or neither.
• companyQuery: optional case-insensitive company-name filter.
• cik: optional exact SEC CIK filter.
• maxItems: hard result cap.
• secContactEmail: required for SEC fair-access identification and never included in output.

📤 Output

Each dataset item includes accessionNumber, filingDate, effectiveDate, companyName, cik, fileNumbers, referencedForms, relatedAccessionNumber, official filing links, and source provenance. Missing optional values remain null or empty arrays instead of being guessed.

Scheduling

Leave fixed dates empty and schedule the Actor daily with daysBack: 2. Overlap is intentional so weekend or delayed filings are not missed; deduplicate downstream by accessionNumber.

Data source and responsible use

Data comes from the official SEC EDGAR daily index and filing archives. Provide a real contact email, keep ranges bounded, and follow SEC fair-access guidance. This Actor reports public regulatory records and does not provide investment advice.

📥 Complete input reference

Field	Type	Default	Purpose
daysBack	integer	7	Rolling lookback used when fixed dates are empty.
startDate	string	—	Optional YYYY-MM-DD. Provide together with endDate.
endDate	string	—	Optional YYYY-MM-DD. Provide together with startDate.
companyQuery	string	""	Optional case-insensitive substring matched against the SEC company name.
cik	string	""	Optional exact SEC Central Index Key, with or without leading zeroes.
maxItems	integer	100	Hard cap on paid dataset items written by one run.
secContactEmail	string	—	Required by SEC fair-access guidance; used only in the request User-Agent.

📤 Complete output reference

The default dataset is exportable as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS. Fields remain stable for scheduled runs and API integrations.

Field	Type
accessionNumber	string
filingDate	string
effectiveDate	string / null
companyName	string
cik	string
formType	string
fileNumbers	array
referencedForms	array
relatedAccessionNumber	string / null
filingUrl	string
sourceDocumentUrl	string
signal	string
source	string

🔌 API & integrations

Run this Actor from the Apify Console, API, CLI, MCP, Make, Zapier or n8n. Replace the Actor identifier and token in this template:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sec-effectiveness-monitor/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Results are stored in the run's default dataset and can be forwarded with Apify webhooks or scheduled Tasks.

🔎 Search keywords

SEC EFFECT Registration Effectiveness Monitor, sec, effect, registration, effectiveness, monitor, Apify Actor, scraper API, structured data, scheduled monitor, automation.

💰 Pricing

Billing is tied to successfully delivered result events. Empty, filtered, duplicate or failed records are not charged as results. Open the Pricing tab for the current per-event rate before starting a run, and use Apify's maximum-charge control to enforce a hard budget.