SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search — Find Any Phrase in Any Filing

Search the full text of every SEC EDGAR filing since 2001 for any word or exact phrase — across all companies at once — and get clean, structured JSON back. Find every 10-K that mentions "climate risk," every 8-K naming a specific executive, every S-1 with a given risk factor. Filter by form type and date. Built for equity research, fintech, legal/compliance, and AI/RAG pipelines. No API key.

Keywords: SEC full-text search API, EDGAR full text, search SEC filings, 10-K phrase search, risk factor search, fintech data, financial research API.

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Why this actor

EDGAR's full-text search is powerful but its endpoint returns raw Elasticsearch JSON with cryptic fields, parallel arrays, and offset pagination — and it has no official client. This actor wraps it into one clean record per matching filing, with the company, form, dates, filing location, SIC, and a click-ready URL to the document.

It complements our SEC EDGAR Filings actor: that one pulls a specific company's filings; this one searches across all companies for a phrase.

• Full text, all companies — every filing since 2001, searched in one call.
• Exact-phrase or keyword — quote a phrase for exact matching.
• Form + date filters — narrow to 10-Ks in 2025, or 8-Ks last quarter.
• Clean output — company, CIK, form, file date, period, accession, location, SIC, filing URL.
• No API key — official SEC endpoint; fair-access User-Agent only.

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What you can build

• Thematic research — find every company disclosing exposure to a topic (AI, tariffs, a supplier, a regulation).
• Risk-factor monitoring — track how a specific risk spreads across filers over time.
• Event detection — surface 8-Ks mentioning a person, deal, or product.
• AI/RAG corpora — assemble a topic-specific filing set, then pull full text with our SEC EDGAR Filings actor.
• Competitive & legal intel — who said what, in which filing, when.

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	string	"climate risk"	Word or quoted exact phrase.
formTypes	string[]	["10-K"]	Form types to include (empty = all).
dateFrom / dateTo	string	—	Filing-date window YYYY-MM-DD (covers 2001 onward).
maxResults	integer	200	Max hits, newest first.
contactEmail	string	—	Your email for SEC fair-access.

Example

{ "query": "\"artificial intelligence\"", "formTypes": ["10-K", "10-Q"], "dateFrom": "2025-01-01", "maxResults": 500 }

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Output

{
  "company": "CONOCOPHILLIPS (COP) (CIK 0001163165)",
  "ciks": ["0001163165"],
  "form": "10-K",
  "file_date": "2025-02-18",
  "period_ending": "2024-12-31",
  "accession_number": "0001163165-25-000012",
  "sic": "2911",
  "biz_location": "Houston, TX",
  "inc_state": "DE",
  "filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163165/000116316525000012/cop-20241231.htm",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-12T00:00:00.000Z"
}

A final {"_type":"summary"} record reports total matches and how many were returned.

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Pricing

First 25 hits free per account, then $0.003 per hit. Zero charge on empty searches. No API key, no monthly rental.

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FAQ

Do I need a key? No — official SEC endpoint; just a contact email in the User-Agent.

How far back? Full-text coverage is 2001 to present.

Difference from the SEC EDGAR Filings actor? This searches across all companies for a phrase; that one pulls a specific company's filing history (with financials/text). Use them together.

Exact phrases? Yes — wrap the phrase in quotes.