SEC Insider Trading: Form 4 buys, sells and grants by company

Insider transactions from SEC Form 4 per company by ticker or CIK: role and title of the insider, transaction date, code, shares, price, value and shares owned after, derivative and 10b5-1 flags, with links to the filing. Up to 200 companies a run, filter on date. Pay per transaction.

Why this scraper

• Only delivered results are charged. Inputs that fail come back as clear error records at no cost.
• Straight from the SEC's own archive, no third party in between: the company's filing list comes from the SEC JSON API and every Form 4 is read from its raw XML, the same document the insider's lawyer filed. Measured on the platform: 48 transactions from 15 filings of three companies for a fifth of a cent.
• One row per transaction, not per filing. A Form 4 that reports an option exercise, the resulting shares and a tax withholding becomes three rows, each with its own code, shares, price, value and the holding afterwards. The SEC's one-letter transaction codes come with their meaning in words (S is "Open market or private sale", M "Exercise or conversion of derivative").
• Derivative transactions (options, RSUs, table II of the form) carry exercise price, exercise and expiration dates and the underlying security, and can be switched off with includeDerivatives when only share trades matter.
• The role of the insider is on every row: Officer, Director, 10% owner, with the officer's title as declared (Chief Financial Officer, SVP, General Counsel). Rule 10b5-1 plan trades are flagged, so scheduled sales are told apart from discretionary ones.

Who this is for

Paste tickers, CIKs or EDGAR company URLs in companies (up to 200 per run), optionally set sinceDate (YYYY-MM-DD) and maxFilingsPerCompany (default 20 newest Form 4 filings, ceiling 200). Built for insider-activity monitors, screens for open-market buys and clustered sales, research on executive selling around earnings, and compliance or journalism work that needs the official filing behind every number.

Who this is not for

The name of the insider is not delivered, nor their personal CIK or address, although the form carries them; a row says "Officer, Chief Financial Officer of Tesla sold 2,000 shares", and the filing behind documentUrl says who. If you need rows keyed to a named person, this actor is the wrong tool. Only Form 4 and 4/A are read; the initial holdings statement (Form 3) and the annual Form 5 are not. pricePerShare and valueUsd are empty when the form has no price (grants, gifts), never estimated. The SEC API carries the latest 1,000 filings per company, which for a heavy filer reaches back a few years. The SEC asks automated readers to identify themselves and to stay under ten requests per second; this actor does both.

Input fields

Field	Type	Required or default	What it does
companies	list of text	required	One per row, up to 200: a ticker (AAPL), a CIK (320193) or an EDGAR company URL.
sinceDate	text		Only Form 4 filings filed on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Empty means the latest filings.
includeDerivatives	true/false	true	Also deliver options, RSUs and other derivative securities (table II of the form). Off means shares only.
maxFilingsPerCompany	number	20	Cost ceiling per company, newest Form 4 filings first; one filing usually holds one to five transactions.

Input example

{
    "companies": [
        "AAPL",
        "NVDA",
        "TSLA"
    ],
    "includeDerivatives": true,
    "maxFilingsPerCompany": 20
}

Output example

Field	Type	What it holds	Example
cik	text	The SEC's own number for the filer, the key that stays the same when a company changes its name.	1045810
companyName	text	The company the transaction is in.	NVIDIA CORP
ticker	text	The company's ticker symbol, as far as the filing names one.	NVDA
form	text	The form type this filing is, for example 10-K, 13F-HR or 4.	4
filingDate	text	The date the document was filed with the SEC.	2026-09-23
periodOfReport	text	The date of the earliest transaction on the form, as the SEC labels it; not the filing date.	2026-09-21
accessionNumber	text	The SEC's id for this filing, the key to find the document back.	0001696841-26-000014
insiderRole	text	The insider's relationship to the company as declared on the form: Officer, Director, 10% owner or Other, joined when several apply. The person's name is not delivered; it is in the filing behind documentUrl.	Officer
officerTitle	text	The title the officer declares, for example CEO or SVP, General Counsel. Empty for directors and 10% owners who hold no office.	EVP, General Counsel and Sec
isDirector	true/false	Whether the insider is a board member.	False
isOfficer	true/false	Whether the insider is an officer of the company.	True
isTenPercentOwner	true/false	Whether the insider holds ten percent or more of a class of shares.
securityTitle	text	Which security was traded, for example common stock or an option.	Common Stock
transactionDate	text	The date of the transaction itself, which can be days before the filing date.	2026-09-21
transactionCode	text	The SEC's one-letter code: P purchase, S sale, A grant, M option exercise, F tax withholding, G gift and so on.	S
transactionType	text	That code in words, so a row reads without the code table. Empty for a code the SEC has not documented.	Open market or private sale
acquiredOrDisposed	text	Whether the insider gained (Acquired) or gave up (Disposed) the securities in this line.	Disposed
shares	number	The number of shares or units in this transaction.	12483
pricePerShare	number	The price per share of this transaction; empty for grants, gifts and other lines without a price.	222.1932
valueUsd	number	shares times pricePerShare, rounded to cents; empty when there is no price, never estimated.	2773637.72
sharesOwnedAfter	number	The insider's holding in this security after the transaction, as reported on the same line.	2705637
ownership	text	Direct, or Indirect when held through a trust, fund or family member.
ownershipNature	text	How the indirect holding is held, in the filer's words, for example By trust. Empty for direct holdings.
isDerivative	true/false	True for options, RSUs and other derivative securities (table II of the form), false for shares (table I).	False
exercisePrice	number	The conversion or exercise price of the derivative; 0 for RSUs that convert for free. Only on derivative rows.
exerciseDate	text	When the derivative becomes exercisable; often a footnote instead of a date, then empty.
expirationDate	text	When the derivative expires; RSUs frequently have none.
underlyingSecurity	text	The security the derivative converts into, usually Common Stock.	Common Stock
underlyingShares	number	How many underlying shares the derivative represents.	47645
transactionIndex	number	The position of this transaction within its filing, counting from 1; with accessionNumber it identifies the row.
footnoteIds	list	The footnotes this transaction refers to, such as F2; two grants that are otherwise equal differ here. The footnote texts are in the filing at documentUrl.
is10b51Plan	true/false	Whether the filer marked the transaction as made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, adopted in advance.	True
documentUrl	text	The filing as the SEC renders it; the reporting person's name and the footnotes are there.	https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000169684...
indexUrl	text	The SEC index page of the filing with every document in it.	https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000169684...

Error codes: INVALID_COMPANY, NOT_FOUND, NO_FILINGS, DUPLICATE_INPUT, BLOCKED.

One delivered row looks like this:

{
  "cik": "320193",
  "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "form": "4",
  "filingDate": "2026-09-24",
  "accessionNumber": "0001140361-26-037584",
  "documentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126037584/xslF345X06/form4.xml",
  "indexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126037584/0001140361-26-037584-index.htm",
  "periodOfReport": "2026-09-22",
  "insiderRole": "Officer",
  "officerTitle": "SVP, GC and Government Affairs",
  "isDirector": false,
  "isOfficer": true,
  "isTenPercentOwner": false,
  "is10b51Plan": true,
  "securityTitle": "Common Stock",
  "transactionDate": "2026-09-22",
  "transactionCode": "S",
  "transactionType": "Open market or private sale",
  "acquiredOrDisposed": "Disposed",
  "shares": 2399,
  "pricePerShare": 340.06,
  "valueUsd": 815803.94,
  "sharesOwnedAfter": 44391,
  "ownership": "Direct",
  "ownershipNature": null,
  "isDerivative": false,
  "exercisePrice": null,
  "exerciseDate": null,
  "expirationDate": null,
  "underlyingSecurity": null,
  "underlyingShares": null,
  "status": "ok"
}

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Pricing

Pay per event: one transaction-listed event per delivered result. No charge for inputs that fail, no separate platform-usage surcharge.

Free Apify plan: this actor delivers up to 25 rows per run for accounts on the Apify free plan, and then stops with a message. That limit is set by us, not by Apify. It exists so the actor keeps paying for itself for the people who do pay. Any paid Apify plan runs it at full size, billed per delivered row, with failed rows never charged.

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FAQ

Is personal data collected? No. The row carries the company, the insider's role and title, and the transaction. The reporting person's name, personal CIK and address, which the form contains, are not read into the dataset; they remain in the filing behind documentUrl.

How do I get only new insider trades every day? Run with sinceDate set to yesterday. Companies without a new Form 4 come back as a free NO_FILINGS row, so a daily watchlist of 200 companies costs only the transactions that actually appeared.

What do the transaction codes mean? P is an open-market purchase and S a sale, the two that most screens look for. A is a grant or award, M an option exercise or RSU conversion, F shares withheld for taxes, G a gift, D a disposition to the company. Every row carries the code and its meaning in transactionType.

Why does one filing give several rows? Because one Form 4 can report several transactions: an exercise (M), the shares it produced, and the tax withholding (F) on the same day. Each is its own row with its own sharesOwnedAfter, so the sequence can be followed.

What is is10b51Plan? A Rule 10b5-1 plan is a schedule of trades adopted in advance, when the insider has no inside information. Filers mark such trades on the form; the flag lets you separate planned sales from discretionary ones.

What does a run cost when a ticker is unknown? Nothing. NOT_FOUND, NO_FILINGS, INVALID_COMPANY and BLOCKED rows are free; only delivered transactions are charged.

What happens when the source changes? Sources change from time to time; that is the nature of this work. The actor is monitored daily and fixed fast, and while it is broken you are not charged, because only delivered results cost anything.