# SEC EDGAR Filings (`timbered_oak/sec-edgar-filings`) Actor

Fetches SEC EDGAR filing metadata (and optionally text) for companies by ticker, CIK, or name, via the official data.sec.gov API.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/timbered\_oak/sec-edgar-filings.md
- **Developed by:** [Mark](https://apify.com/timbered_oak) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$0.80 / 1,000 filing scrapeds

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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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## SEC EDGAR Filings

### What it does

Fetches SEC filing metadata for companies from the official
`data.sec.gov` submissions API — no proxy, no scraping of rendered pages.
Resolve a company by ticker, CIK, or name, get back its recent filings
(10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, etc.) with links to the primary document. Optionally
fetches the primary document itself and includes its plain text, with
automatic Risk Factors (Item 1A) extraction for 10-Ks.

Company-level data only. No officer/insider personal data is collected —
Form 4/3/5 filings are returned as metadata rows like any other form, but
their per-person transaction fields are never parsed out.

### Input

| Field | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `companies` | array of strings | yes | — | Ticker (`AAPL`), CIK (`320193`), or company name (`Nortel Networks Corp`) per company. |
| `formTypes` | array of strings | no | `["10-K","8-K","10-Q"]` | SEC form types to include. |
| `maxFilings` | integer | no | `20` | Max matching filings per company, most recent first. |
| `includeText` | boolean | no | `false` | Fetch the primary document text (truncated to 200,000 chars) and, for 10-Ks, its Risk Factors section. |

Name resolution uses EDGAR's company-search feed and takes the first CIK
match — an exact ticker or CIK is more reliable than a name, since a
name search can match a similarly-named subsidiary (e.g. "Nortel
Networks" alphabetically matches "Nortel Networks Capital Corp" before
the actual parent "Nortel Networks Corp").

### Output example

One row per filing in the default dataset:

```json
{
  "company": "NORTEL NETWORKS CORP",
  "cik": "0000072911",
  "ticker": null,
  "formType": "8-K",
  "filedAt": "2012-10-03",
  "reportDate": "2012-10-03",
  "accessionNumber": "0001193125-12-414094",
  "primaryDocUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72911/000119312512414094/d420239d8k.htm",
  "description": "8-K"
}
```

With `includeText: true`, rows also carry `text` (plain text, ≤200k
chars) and, for 10-K rows, `riskFactors` (Item 1A section, ≤50k chars).

### Pricing

Pay-per-event (PPE). One `filing-scraped` event is charged per filing row
pushed via `Actor.charge({ eventName: 'filing-scraped' })` — never charged
on an empty result. Console price: **$0.0008 per event** ($0.80/1,000
filings), no start fee (`docs/CANDIDATES.md` #14).

### Limits

- Free-plan compute only; no residential proxy — SEC is a public API.
- Requests carry a descriptive `User-Agent` and are throttled to stay
  under SEC's 10 req/s limit.
- `includeText` adds one extra fetch (and more compute) per filing;
  leave it off unless you need document text.
- Name search takes the first EDGAR match — verify the resolved `cik`
  in the output if the company name is ambiguous.

# Actor input Schema

## `companies` (type: `array`):

Ticker symbol, CIK number, or company name for each company to fetch filings for.

## `formTypes` (type: `array`):

SEC form types to include (e.g. 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K).

## `maxFilings` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of matching filings to return per company, most recent first.

## `includeText` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch the primary document and include its plain text (truncated to 200,000 chars). For 10-K filings, also extracts the Risk Factors (Item 1A) section. Slower and heavier — leave off unless you need the text.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "AAPL"
  ],
  "formTypes": [
    "10-K",
    "8-K",
    "10-Q"
  ],
  "maxFilings": 20,
  "includeText": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped rows as JSON

# 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 = {
    "companies": [
        "AAPL"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("timbered_oak/sec-edgar-filings").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 = { "companies": ["AAPL"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("timbered_oak/sec-edgar-filings").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 '{
  "companies": [
    "AAPL"
  ]
}' |
apify call timbered_oak/sec-edgar-filings --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,timbered_oak/sec-edgar-filings"
        }
    }
}

```

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/ZlCHx4Dm9t5FWLD7J/builds/VFkKXLN3ZsOEdiaWH/openapi.json