SEC Enforcement & Litigation Release Delta Feed

SEC.gov has no API. This gives you one — with the entity matching already done.

If you track enforcement actions against companies, your only option today is refreshing a static SEC.gov webpage and reading it yourself — and even then, the release only names a person or entity, never the actual EDGAR-registered company you have on file. This Actor solves that: it turns SEC.gov's litigation releases and administrative proceedings into a structured, cross-linked, delta-tracked feed.

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Why this outperforms a standard scraper

• Delta tracking, not re-scraping. Every release is fingerprinted on every run. Unchanged releases are never re-delivered — and never billed.
• Pay only for what's new. A genuinely new enforcement release costs $0.05. A correction to a release you've already received costs $0.02 — rare, since SEC releases are essentially immutable once published. An unchanged release costs nothing.
• Automatic entity resolution. The named respondent is cross-linked to their real EDGAR filer CIK, with a confidence score — including former company names — instead of leaving that match to you. Monetary sanctions (sought vs. ordered) are extracted directly from the administrative proceeding PDFs.

See it before you trust it

{
  "record_id": "LR-26636",
  "event_type": "NEW_LISTING",
  "release_type": "litigation_release",
  "release_date": "2026-09-12",
  "title": "SEC Charges Investment Adviser with Overbilling Advisory Clients",
  "primary_respondent": "Example Capital Management LLC",
  "linked_edgar_cik": "0001234567",
  "edgar_match_confidence": 0.94,
  "monetary_sanctions": { "sought_usd": 450000, "ordered_usd": 310000 }
}

Notice linked_edgar_cik and edgar_match_confidence — that match is automatic, not something you build yourself. And monetary_sanctions is parsed straight out of the PDF, not left for you to read by hand.

Zero-risk trial

Unchanged runs cost $0.00. Run it once against real data before you commit to anything:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/EDhT9Mvrdm2hzTECA/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"userAgent": "YourCompany your-email@example.com", "maxItemsPerRun": 50, "onlyNew": true}'

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/EDhT9Mvrdm2hzTECA/run-sync-get-dataset-items",
    params={"token": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"},
    json={"userAgent": "YourCompany your-email@example.com", "maxItemsPerRun": 50, "onlyNew": True},
)
records = response.json()
print(f"{len(records)} records returned")

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/EDhT9Mvrdm2hzTECA/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      userAgent: "YourCompany your-email@example.com",
      maxItemsPerRun: 50,
      onlyNew: true,
    }),
  }
);
const records = await response.json();
console.log(`${records.length} records returned`);

Pricing

Event	What it means	Price
New Enforcement Release	A litigation release or administrative proceeding seen for the first time.	$0.05
Updated Release Content	Content on a previously-delivered release changed on a later run — rare, since SEC releases are essentially immutable.	$0.02

Actor-start fee: $0.00005/GB-memory (one-time per run, not per record).

What you get on every record

• Release/proceeding type, date, and title, exactly as published
• Primary respondent name, as named in the release
• Linked EDGAR CIK with a numeric match-confidence score
• Cited statutes/rules where present in the release
• Monetary sanctions broken out as sought vs. ordered, parsed from the source PDF
• Delta classification: NEW_LISTING or UPDATED, so you never process the same release twice

Input parameters

Field	Type	Description	Default
userAgent	string	Identifies your requests to SEC.gov per their fair-access policy — use your company name and an email.	required
maxItemsPerRun	integer	Caps how many releases are processed in one run.	50
onlyNew	boolean	When true, only NEW_LISTING events are returned; set false to also see UPDATED events.	true

Source & reliability

Source is SEC.gov's own public litigation-release and administrative-proceeding feeds — no third-party aggregator in between. This Actor runs on the same delta-engine pattern behind this operator's whole fleet: canonicalize, fingerprint, persist state across runs, retry with backoff on transient failures, and — critically — distinguish a genuine upstream outage from an actual code defect in its own error reporting, so a bad day for SEC.gov's servers never gets mistaken for a broken pipeline.