# Earnings Reports Scraper: SEC 8-K Press Releases (`tapedawn/earnings-reports-scraper`) Actor

Every quarterly earnings release filed with the SEC as an 8-K (Item 2.02), with the full press-release text, headline EPS and revenue figures, tickers, and exhibit links. Filter by date range or tickers. Official EDGAR source, no API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tapedawn/earnings-reports-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ed Tan](https://apify.com/tapedawn) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$10.00 / 1,000 earnings reports

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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

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

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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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

## Earnings Reports Scraper: SEC 8-K Press Releases

Get every quarterly earnings release the moment it hits the SEC, straight from EDGAR, with the full press-release text and headline numbers already pulled out. Built for earnings-season trackers, equity research, financial news automation, and AI agents that need the actual report rather than a third-party summary.

Companies must file an 8-K with **Item 2.02, Results of Operations and Financial Condition**, when they announce results. This Actor finds those filings for any date range or set of tickers, opens the filing, locates the EX-99.1 press release, and returns it as clean text.

### What you get

One record per earnings release:

- **Who and when**: company name, tickers, CIK, SIC code, state, filing date, period ending, the 8-K items it reports.
- **Links**: filing index, primary 8-K document, press release (EX-99.1), and every EX-99 exhibit such as investor presentations.
- **Press release text**: the full release as plain text, truncated at a length you choose.
- **Headline figures**: EPS values mentioned in the text, the first revenue figure, and the opening headline sentence. These are best-effort regular-expression extractions, so verify them against the text for anything that matters.

```json
{
  "company": "KIMBERLY CLARK CORP",
  "tickers": ["KMB"],
  "cik": "55785",
  "filed_at": "2026-10-20",
  "period_ending": "2026-10-20",
  "items": ["2.02", "9.01"],
  "press_release_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/55785/000110465926115960/tm2627599d1_ex99-1.htm",
  "headline": "Kimberly-Clark Announces Third Quarter 2026 Results.",
  "eps_mentions": [1.85, 2.03],
  "revenue_usd": 5000000000,
  "press_release_text": "Kimberly-Clark Corporation today reported third quarter 2026 results ..."
}
```

### Filters

- **Filed from / Filed to**: date range of the filing date. Defaults to the last seven days, so a daily run gets everything new.
- **Tickers**: restrict to specific companies. Tickers are resolved to SEC CIKs through the SEC's own ticker file.
- **Only earnings releases**: on by default. Turn off to pull any 8-K matching the search text, for example guidance updates.
- **Full-text search**: override the EDGAR query, for example `"record revenue"` or `"restructuring"`.
- **Fetch press release text** and **Maximum press release characters** control the heavy part of the run.

### Pricing

Pay per event: one `earnings-report` event per filing saved. Searching costs you nothing. Set a maximum total charge and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached. Earnings season produces several hundred releases a day; use a ticker list or a tight date range to keep runs small.

### Data and fair use

All data comes from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR system and is in the public domain. The Actor follows the SEC's fair-access rules: it sends a declared user agent, makes one request at a time, and stays well under the SEC's rate limit. Add your email in the **Contact** field if you run it at volume, as the SEC asks of automated clients.

# Actor input Schema

## `startDate` (type: `string`):

Earliest filing date, YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to seven days ago.

## `endDate` (type: `string`):

Latest filing date, YYYY-MM-DD. Defaults to today.

## `tickers` (type: `array`):

Only these companies, by stock ticker (for example AAPL, MSFT). Leave empty for every filer in the date range.

## `onlyResultsItem` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only 8-K filings that report results of operations. Turn off to include every 8-K matching the search text.

## `fetchPressRelease` (type: `boolean`):

Open each filing's index, find the EX-99.1 press release, and include its text plus extracted headline figures.

## `maxTextChars` (type: `integer`):

Truncate the press-release text to this many characters. 0 keeps the full text.

## `query` (type: `string`):

EDGAR full-text query. Default finds Item 2.02 results filings. Use quotes for phrases, for example "record revenue".

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many filings have been saved.

## `contact` (type: `string`):

Optional email appended to the User-Agent, as the SEC asks of automated clients.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "tickers": [],
  "onlyResultsItem": true,
  "fetchPressRelease": true,
  "maxTextChars": 30000,
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

# 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 = {
    "tickers": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tapedawn/earnings-reports-scraper").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 = { "tickers": [] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tapedawn/earnings-reports-scraper").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 '{
  "tickers": []
}' |
apify call tapedawn/earnings-reports-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tapedawn/earnings-reports-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/rwyi6XWKK4N8QaeKw/builds/WkGggatZitRrRGxeT/openapi.json