SEC EDGAR API: US Company Filings, Financials & Insiders

What it does: SEC EDGAR as clean JSON: company lookup, profile, recent filings (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K...), XBRL financials and insider Form 4 trades.

Who it's for: Investing, research and fintech agents, analysts and dashboards that need official US company data without an API key.

Price: Pay per event: $0.005 per request. Bad requests return an error row and are not charged. You only pay Apify for what you run; there is no monthly fee for this Actor.

Clean JSON from the official SEC EDGAR APIs for AI agents, analysts and fintech automations. No API key needed.

Actions

action	fields	returns
lookup	ticker, cik or name	CIK, ticker, official name (+ other name matches)
profile	ticker / cik / name	SIC industry, state of incorporation, fiscal year end, exchanges, EIN, addresses, former names
filings	+ forms? (e.g. ["10-K","10-Q","8-K","S-1","4","13F-HR"]), limit?, since?	recent filings with document and index links, 8-K item numbers
financials	+ period annual/quarterly, limit?	revenue, net income, diluted EPS, total assets, liabilities, cash, shares outstanding from XBRL
insiders	+ limit? (max 25)	recent Form 4s: insider name, role/title, transaction code, shares, price, holdings after

Batch: {"requests": [{"action": "financials", "ticker": "MSFT"}, {"action": "insiders", "ticker": "TSLA", "limit": 5}]} (max 200). Bad requests return an error row and are not charged.

Notes

• Annual financials are fiscal-year values from 10-K/20-F (the latest filing wins when restated). Quarterly values use SEC XBRL calendar frames. Units are as reported.
• filings covers each company's most recent ~1,000 filings (the EDGAR "recent" set).
• Complies with SEC fair-access rules: a declared User-Agent, under 10 requests per second, and caching within each run.
• Not affiliated with or endorsed by the SEC. Data is US government public-domain information from SEC EDGAR. This is not investment advice.

Pricing

One lookup event per successful result.

Keywords: SEC EDGAR API, SEC filings, 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, 13F, Form 4, insider trading, company financials, XBRL financial data, stock filings, CIK lookup, ticker to CIK, fundamentals, AI agent tool, MCP.

Quick example

Input

{
 "requests": [
  {
   "action": "profile",
   "ticker": "AAPL"
  },
  {
   "action": "filings",
   "ticker": "AAPL",
   "forms": [
    "10-K",
    "10-Q",
    "8-K"
   ],
   "limit": 5
  },
  {
   "action": "financials",
   "ticker": "AAPL",
   "period": "annual",
   "limit": 3
  }
 ]
}

Output (one dataset item, shortened)

{
 "action": "profile",
 "cik": "0000320193",
 "ticker": "AAPL",
 "company": "Apple Inc.",
 "source": "SEC EDGAR",
 "profile": {
  "name": "Apple Inc.",
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "entityType": "operating",
  "sic": "3571",
  "sicDescription": "Electronic Computers",
  "tickers": [
   "AAPL"
  ],
  "exchanges": [
   "Nasdaq"
  ],
  "ein": "942404110",
  "lei": null,
  "category": "Large accelerated filer",
  "fiscalYearEnd": "09-26",
  "stateOfIncorporation": "CA",
  "phone": "(408) 996-1010",
  "website": ""
 },
 "error": null
}

Use it from AI agents (MCP) and code

• Apify MCP server: add https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=tudorlane/us-company-filings to Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT connectors, VS Code or any MCP client (sign in with Apify OAuth or an API token). The Actor appears as a tool the model can call.
• REST (sync): POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/tudorlane~us-company-filings/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN with the input JSON as the body; results come back in the response.
• SDKs / no-code: apify-client (Python/JS), LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, n8n, Make and Zapier integrations.

FAQ

Do I need an SEC key? No. It follows SEC fair-access rules for you.

Non-US companies? Any SEC filer, including 20-F foreign issuers.

What if the source is down? You get an error row and are not charged for it.

Support? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.

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Keywords: SEC EDGAR API, 10-K API, company financials API, XBRL, insider trading Form 4, CIK lookup, stock fundamentals, MCP tool, Apify Actor, AI agent tool.