SEC 8-K Scraper: Executive Changes, M&A, Cyber & Restatements

$2 per 1,000 filings with item text ($1.25 on the Gold tier), $1 per 1,000 metadata-only rows, no start fee, no API key. On a schedule, only filings you have not received before are billed.

Every public company must file a Form 8-K within four business days of a material event, and the item number on the filing says which kind: 5.02 is an executive or director change, 1.05 a cybersecurity incident, 4.02 a restatement, 2.01 a completed acquisition, 1.01 a material agreement, 1.03 a bankruptcy. This Actor turns EDGAR into an event feed: pick the items you care about, and get every 8-K that reports them, market-wide or for a watchlist of tickers, with the text of the matched items, a one-sentence headline, the exhibits (press release, agreement, letter), company name, ticker, SIC code, state, and links.

Built on EDGAR full-text search and the filing archive, both public and free. The Actor declares itself to the SEC as its fair-access policy asks and never exceeds five requests a second.

What you get

Filing rows (kind: "filing"), one per 8-K, newest first:

{
  "kind": "filing",
  "accessionNumber": "0000056679-26-000033",
  "form": "8-K",
  "isAmendment": false,
  "filedDate": "2026-09-09",
  "eventDate": "2026-09-08",
  "companyName": "Example Corp",
  "cik": 56679,
  "ticker": "EXMP",
  "tickers": ["EXMP"],
  "coRegistrants": [],
  "sic": "7361",
  "state": "CA",
  "location": "Los Angeles, CA",
  "incorporatedIn": "DE",
  "fileNumbers": ["001-14505"],
  "items": ["5.02", "9.01"],
  "itemLabels": ["Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; ...", "Financial Statements and Exhibits"],
  "matchedItems": ["5.02"],
  "matchedItemLabels": ["Executive or director change"],
  "headline": "On September 8, 2026, the Board of Directors of Example Corp appointed Jane Q. Public as Chief Financial Officer, effective October 1, 2026.",
  "itemText": { "5.02": "Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; ... On September 8, 2026, the Board ..." },
  "itemTextTruncated": false,
  "exhibits": [
    { "file": "ex99-1.htm", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56679/000005667926000033/ex99-1.htm", "exhibit": "99.1", "label": "99.1 Press release dated September 8, 2026" }
  ],
  "primaryDocumentUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56679/000005667926000033/exmp-20260908.htm",
  "indexUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56679/000005667926000033/0000056679-26-000033-index.htm",
  "companyFilingsUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000056679&type=8-K&dateb=&owner=include&count=40",
  "detailError": null,
  "billedAs": "filing",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

items lists every item the filing reports (from the SEC's own index, not guessed from text); matchedItems is the subset you asked for. itemText holds the text of each matched item, starting with its heading and ending before the next item or the signature block, cut at "Max characters per item". headline is the first sentence of the first matched item. exhibits come from the filing's own exhibit table, so the press release (99.1), the agreement (10.1, 2.1) or the auditor letter (16.1) is one click away. eventDate is the "date of earliest event reported" on the cover.

Metadata-only rows carry the same fields without itemText, headline and exhibits, and are billed at the lower rate: when "Include item text and exhibits" is off, or when the SEC document could not be read, in which case detailError says why and billedAs is filing-summary.

One summary row (kind: "summary", free) reports the date window, how many filings were in it, how many were skipped as already delivered, as amendments, or by your filters, how many EDGAR requests were made, whether the SEC rate limit was hit, and whether the run stopped at your spending cap, so an empty result explains itself.

Filter on kind to keep one row type; the Console view Filings shows the useful columns.

Input

Field	What it does
8-K items to watch	The item codes that count as an event; a filing is delivered when it reports at least one. Empty means every 8-K in the window.
Filed within (days)	Look-back in calendar days before today (US Eastern), plus today. Default 2, so a Sunday run still sees Friday.
Watchlist: tickers / CIKs	Restrict to these companies. Tickers are resolved to CIK numbers through the SEC's public ticker file; the search itself is then restricted, so long look-backs for a watchlist stay fast.
Keywords (all must appear)	Phrases the filing text must contain, e.g. "chief executive officer" or "ransomware", searched by EDGAR full-text search.
SIC codes, Business states	Industry code prefixes and two-letter states of the filer.
Include amendments (8-K/A)	Default off. Amendments usually add exhibits to an event already reported.
Include item text and exhibits	Default on. Off gives metadata-only rows at the lower rate and makes no requests to the filing archive.
Max characters per item	Default 6,000. Longer sections are cut and flagged.
Only new since last run	Default on. Remembers what each snapshot name has delivered (90 days) and skips it next time.
Snapshot name	Which memory "only new" uses; kept on your account as a key-value store named sec-8k-event-radar-<name>. Give each schedule its own name.
Max filings per run	Default 500, newest first.
Proxy	Normally off. Turn on if the summary row reports SEC rate limiting.

Examples:

{ "items": ["5.02"], "keywords": ["chief executive officer"], "filedWithinDays": 1 }

Every CEO-related executive change filed yesterday or today, with the 5.02 text and the press release link.

{ "items": ["1.05", "4.02", "4.01", "3.01", "1.03"], "filedWithinDays": 7 }

This week's bad news: cyber incidents, restatements, auditor changes, delisting notices, bankruptcies.

{ "tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA"], "items": [], "filedWithinDays": 90, "includeItemText": false }

Every 8-K from three companies in the last quarter, metadata only.

Pricing

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold and above
8-K filing (with item text and exhibits)	$0.002	$0.0018	$0.0015	$0.00125
8-K filing summary (metadata only)	$0.001	$0.0009	$0.00075	$0.0006

EDGAR receives roughly 400 to 600 8-Ks on a business day and about 2,600 Item 5.02 filings a quarter. A daily schedule for executive changes, cyber incidents, restatements, acquisitions, material agreements and bankruptcies delivers about 60 to 90 filings a business day, around $0.15 a day or $3.50 a month with item text. The whole market with every item is about $1 a business day. The summary row is free, and so is an empty run. Set a maximum total charge on the run to cap spend; the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached and never delivers rows it could not bill.

Use cases

• Sales and recruiting triggers: a new CFO, CIO or CEO (5.02) is the moment to reach out; pipe rows into your CRM with the press release attached.
• Risk and compliance: cyber incidents (1.05), restatements (4.02), auditor changes (4.01), delisting notices (3.01), and bankruptcies (1.03) across every registrant, or for your portfolio.
• M&A and deal flow: completed acquisitions (2.01), material agreements (1.01) and terminations (1.02), new debt (2.03), changes in control (5.01).
• Investor relations and journalists: a watchlist of tickers with every item, or the whole market for one item, delivered to Slack, Sheets, or a database on a schedule.
• AI agents: ask "which companies announced a CFO departure this week" through the Apify MCP server and get the item text, not a PDF.

Data source and limits

• Filings come from EDGAR full-text search (efts.sec.gov), which indexes filings within minutes of acceptance and carries each 8-K's item codes, filer, ticker, SIC and state. Item text and exhibits come from the filing's primary document in the EDGAR archive. Both are US government public-domain records.
• The SEC asks automated tools to declare themselves and stay under 10 requests a second; the Actor does both and retries with backoff if the SEC throttles. If the platform's shared address is being throttled, rows are still delivered as metadata at the lower rate with detailError set, the summary row says rateLimited: true, and you can turn the proxy option on.
• Filing dates follow EDGAR's US Eastern calendar. Filings accepted after 5:30 pm Eastern are dated the next business day.
• Full-text search returns at most 10,000 documents per query; the summary row's searchCapped says if a window was too wide. One day is never close to the cap.
• Item text is extracted from the filing's own item headings. Filings with unusual formatting can come back without a section; those rows are billed as summaries and say so in detailError.
• Rows name officers and directors only as the filing itself discloses them; no personal data is added from any other source.
• At the end of each run the Actor reports run counts (rows delivered, events charged, duration, status) to its maintainer's dashboard. It never sends your input, your results, or anything about your account.

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About

Built and maintained by Upward Enterprises · AI & API Services (Iowa, USA). Public-data tools for people and AI agents, with pay-per-record pricing and no keys to manage.

Changelog

• 0.1 (2026-09-10): first release.