SEC 13D/13G Beneficial Ownership Filings Scraper

Pull SEC 13D and 13G beneficial ownership filings from EDGAR by company CIK. Track activist investor positions, 5%+ stakes, and ownership changes. No API key required: uses the public EDGAR submissions API.

Example output row

{
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "company_name": "Apple Inc.",
  "accession_number": "0000902664-23-001234",
  "form": "SC 13G/A",
  "filing_date": "2023-02-10",
  "report_date": "2022-12-31",
  "primary_document": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000090266423001234/sc13ga.txt",
  "primary_doc_description": "SC 13G/A"
}

How to use

Provide an array of 10-digit zero-padded SEC CIK numbers. You can look up a company's CIK at EDGAR full-text search.

Input schema:

{
  "cik": [
    "0000320193",
    "0001318605",
    "0001067983"
  ]
}

Field	Type	Required	Description
cik	string[]	No	10-digit zero-padded CIK numbers. Defaults to Apple, Tesla, Berkshire Hathaway if omitted.

If you supply a shorter CIK (e.g. "320193"), the actor zero-pads it to 10 digits automatically.

Output fields per row:

Field	Description
cik	Zero-padded 10-digit CIK
company_name	Company name from EDGAR
accession_number	Filing accession number (e.g. 0000902664-23-001234)
form	Form type as EDGAR labels it: SCHEDULE 13D, SCHEDULE 13D/A, SCHEDULE 13G, SCHEDULE 13G/A (older filings: SC 13D, SC 13D/A, SC 13G, SC 13G/A)
filing_date	Date the filing was submitted to SEC
report_date	Date of the event that required the filing, read from the filing itself (SCHEDULE 13D/13G in the XML format, filed since December 2024); empty for the older SC 13D/13G
primary_document	Direct URL to the primary filing document
primary_doc_description	Description of the primary document

Only 13D and 13G filings and their amendments are returned (SCHEDULE 13D/13G and the older SC 13D/13G labels). Other filing types are filtered out.

Pricing

Pay per event. Price per 1,000 events:

Event	Base price	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Result	$4.89	$4.40	$3.91	$3.42

Bronze, Silver and Gold are the discounts Apify gives users of its paid plans. The Pricing tab always shows the current prices.

Buyer

• Hedge funds and equity analysts monitoring activist investor accumulation in portfolio companies
• M&A and legal teams tracking 5%+ ownership stakes that trigger Schedule 13D/13G disclosure obligations
• Quant researchers building ownership-change signals and institutional holding datasets
• Compliance teams ensuring awareness of major ownership events in covered companies
• Financial data vendors enriching EDGAR pipelines without building SEC API integrations in-house

Run it through the API

Python, with the apify-client package:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("v0iddo/sec-13d-13g-beneficial-ownership").call(run_input={"cik": ["0000320193", "0001318605", "0001067983"]})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript, with the apify-client package:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('v0iddo/sec-13d-13g-beneficial-ownership').call({"cik": ["0000320193", "0001318605", "0001067983"]});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

One HTTP call that waits for the run and returns the rows (for runs that finish within 5 minutes):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/v0iddo~sec-13d-13g-beneficial-ownership/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"cik": ["0000320193", "0001318605", "0001067983"]}'

Use it from an agent (MCP)

Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients can call this actor as a tool through the Apify MCP server. Add it to the client's MCP configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=v0iddo/sec-13d-13g-beneficial-ownership",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

FAQ

Do I need an account, cookies or an API key?

No. The actor reads public data without logging in. You only need an Apify account to start it.

How am I charged?

Pay per event, at the prices on the Pricing tab for your Apify plan (the Pricing section of this page lists them). The platform usage of the run is included in those prices, and your spending limit for a run is always respected.

Why did my run return no results?

The status message and the log of the run say why: usually nothing matched the input, or the source did not answer for a moment. Check the input against the example above and run it again.

Can I run it on a schedule?

Yes. Save your input as a task and add a schedule in the Apify Console (daily, hourly or with a cron expression). Each run gets its own dataset, so you keep a history.

Which formats can I export?

JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML table and RSS from the Output tab or the API. Integrations send the rows to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier, n8n or a webhook.

Is collecting this data allowed?

The actor collects data that the source publishes openly, without a login. Public data can still be personal data under laws such as the GDPR, and sources have their own terms: make sure your use of the data follows the rules that apply to you.

What happens when the source changes?

An automated test runs the actor every day on the example input and checks the rows, not only that the run finished. When a check fails, the actor is repaired and rebuilt; the build history on this page shows each update.

Something is missing or wrong. Where do I report it?

Open an issue on the Issues tab of this actor with the run link. Requests for a new field are welcome too.

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Source

EDGAR Submissions API
GET https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK{cik}.json

• Public, no API key required
• SEC applies a fair-access rate limit per IP; the actor waits 0.3 s between CIKs
• The actor reads the filings.recent parallel arrays (the most recent filings) of each CIK
• Older filings beyond that window are listed in shards under filings.files[].name and are not fetched
• SEC requires a User-Agent header identifying your application and contact email

Official documentation: EDGAR EFTS API
EDGAR full submissions: data.sec.gov