SEC 8-K Scraper — Material Corporate Events

Every US public-company 8-K the day it is filed, classified by SEC item code. Straight from EDGAR, no third-party data source, no API key.

An 8-K is the filing a public company must make when something material happens — a merger, a bankruptcy, a CEO leaving, a cybersecurity breach, quarterly results. This actor turns the whole daily flow into structured records you can filter by event type.

Sample output

company_name	form	filing_date	item_codes	item_titles
AMGEN INC	8-K	2026-07-31	1.05	Material Cybersecurity Incidents
ALPHATIME ACQUISITION CORP	8-K	2026-07-31	5.02	Departure of Directors or Certain Officers…
CHEVRON CORP	8-K	2026-07-31	2.02, 9.01	Results of Operations and Financial Condition…
ASHLAND INC.	8-K	2026-07-31	1.01, 2.03, 9.01	Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement…

{
  "accession": "0000318154-26-000119",
  "cik": "0000318154",
  "company_name": "AMGEN INC",
  "form": "8-K",
  "filing_date": "2026-07-31",
  "period_of_report": "2026-07-29",
  "item_codes": ["1.05"],
  "item_titles": ["Material Cybersecurity Incidents"],
  "item_count": 1,
  "primary_document": "amgn-20260729.htm",
  "primary_document_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/318154/000031815426000119/amgn-20260729.htm",
  "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/318154/000031815426000119/0000318154-26-000119-index.htm",
  "co_registrants": []
}

One filing is one record, even when eight companies file it together. Utility holding companies and REITs routinely file a single 8-K under a parent and its subsidiaries, and SEC's index lists each registrant separately. You get one record and one charge, with the others named:

"company_name": "EXELON CORP",
"cik": "0001109357",
"co_registrants": [
  {"cik": "0000008192", "company_name": "ATLANTIC CITY ELECTRIC CO"},
  {"cik": "0000009466", "company_name": "BALTIMORE GAS & ELECTRIC CO"},
  {"cik": "0000022606", "company_name": "COMMONWEALTH EDISON Co"}
]

What you can filter for

Leave Item codes empty for the full daily feed, or narrow to the events you track:

code	event
1.01	Entry into a material definitive agreement
1.05	Material cybersecurity incident
2.01	Completion of acquisition or disposition of assets
2.02	Results of operations and financial condition (the earnings release item)
3.01	Delisting notice / failure to satisfy a listing rule
5.02	Departure or election of directors; appointment of officers
5.07	Submission of matters to a vote of security holders
8.01	Other events

Measured over a real business day (2026-07-31): 251 filings, 20 distinct item codes, 0 errors, 44 seconds.

Who uses this

• M&A and credit desks watching 1.01 / 2.01 for deal announcements the hour they land
• Security and risk teams tracking 1.05, the SEC's mandatory cyber-incident disclosure
• Earnings-calendar and news products using 2.02 to know who reported today
• Governance and executive-search researchers following 5.02 officer and board changes at the company level
• Quant and event-study pipelines that need a complete, deduplicated daily event tape

Common questions

Does it return the text of the filing? No — and that is deliberate. You get the classification, the company, the dates, and a direct link to the filing document on sec.gov. Fetch the body from primary_document_url if you need it.

Does it return financial figures? No. Item 2.02 tells you a company reported; the numbers are in the release itself.

Does it return names of executives? No. 5.02 filings are delivered as company-level events with SEC's own item title. This actor never reads the filing body, so no individual's name, contact detail, or profile is ever returned. That is enforced by tests, not by intention.

Am I charged twice when a parent and its subsidiary file the same 8-K? No. One filing is one record and one charge; the other registrants are listed in co_registrants on that record.

How far back can it go? Up to 14 business days per run via Business days, or any explicit range with Start date / End date. A full business day is roughly 250–440 filings — measured 437 on 2026-07-30 and 251 on 2026-07-31, so the day-to-day spread is real.

Is this official? No. This is an unofficial, independent tool that reads public EDGAR data. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Input

field	notes
Your contact email	Required. SEC asks automated requests to identify the requester; your address goes to SEC only.
Business days	1–14, walking back from today. Weekends and holidays are skipped automatically.
Start date / End date	Explicit range, YYYY-MM-DD. Overrides Business days.
Item codes	Keep only filings carrying at least one of these. Empty = every material event.
Include 8-K/A amendments	On by default.
Max records	Cap for a cheap preview. 0 = no cap.

Pricing

Pay per record delivered. Failed fetches are pushed as error rows and are never charged.

One filing is charged once. When a parent and its subsidiaries co-file a single 8-K, SEC's daily index lists one row per registrant — up to eight for a large utility group. Those rows are the same document, so they are collapsed into one record naming every registrant, and you are billed once. Measured across 2026-07-29..31, that is 3–6% of index rows on a typical day.