SEC EDGAR Real-Time Filing Monitor

Track every SEC filing the moment it hits EDGAR. Built for hedge funds, equity researchers, financial journalists, and competitive intel teams.

This actor monitors the official SEC EDGAR system for new filings (8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, S-1, 13F, Form 4 insider trades, DEF 14A proxies — any form type) and returns them as a clean structured dataset. Filter by ticker, CIK, form type, or date range. The data is pulled from SEC's official free API which has sub-second latency from filing-time to availability.

What does SEC EDGAR Filing Monitor do?

You give it a list of stock tickers (or SEC CIK numbers) and a list of form types you care about. It returns every matching filing for those companies in the date range you specify, with structured fields including:

• Ticker, company name, CIK (the SEC company identifier)
• Form type — 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, S-1, 13F, Form 4, DEF 14A, etc.
• Filing date (when filed with SEC)
• Report date (the period the filing covers)
• Accession number (unique SEC identifier)
• Filing URL — direct link to the actual filing document
• EDGAR URL — browsable SEC page
• Items — for 8-K filings, the specific event items disclosed (e.g. 1.01 Material Definitive Agreement, 2.03 Creation of Direct Financial Obligation, 5.02 Departure of Officer)
• XBRL flags — whether the filing has structured XBRL data
• Optional content — full text of the filing for keyword extraction or LLM analysis

Try it: leave the defaults (AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, NVDA, TSLA / 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q / last 30 days), press Start, and you'll get back every recent material filing from the FAANG companies in seconds.

Why use SEC EDGAR Filing Monitor?

The alternative data market is $17 billion by 2027, and 78% of hedge funds now incorporate alternative data into their strategies (source: Nasdaq State of Alternative Data 2025 report). Real-time SEC filings are one of the most valuable signals in that market — they move stocks within minutes of being filed.

• Hedge funds — react to material events (8-K Item 1.01 = M&A, 5.02 = exec departures, 7.01 = Reg FD disclosures) before the market processes them
• Equity research — automate quarterly earnings collection (10-Q + 8-K Item 2.02 earnings release)
• Financial journalists — break news on insider transactions (Form 4) and proxy contests (DEF 14A)
• Competitive intel teams — track competitor M&A, partnerships, leadership changes
• Compliance / risk teams — monitor portfolio companies for material disclosures
• AI / quant traders — feed filings into NLP pipelines for sentiment and event extraction
• Academic researchers — build datasets for finance research

This actor delivers ~70% of what Bloomberg Terminal charges $25,000/year for, at a fraction of the cost.

How to use

1. Click Try for free (or Start)
2. Enter tickers in Tickers to monitor (e.g. AAPL, MSFT, NVDA)
3. Pick which Form types to track (default: 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q)
4. Optionally set Since date (default: last 30 days) and Max per company
5. Click Start
6. Download as JSON, CSV, HTML, or Excel — or schedule daily/hourly runs

Input

• Tickers — list of stock symbols
• CIKs — alternative: list of SEC CIK numbers if you don't have tickers
• Form types — which filings to extract (8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, S-1, 13F, 4, DEF 14A, etc.)
• Since date — only return filings on/after this date (default: 30 days ago)
• Max filings per company — safety cap (default: 50)
• Extract content — also download the full filing text (slower, charged extra)

Output

{
    "ticker": "AAPL",
    "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
    "cik": "0000320193",
    "formType": "8-K",
    "filingDate": "2026-04-10",
    "reportDate": "2026-04-10",
    "accessionNumber": "0000320193-26-000045",
    "primaryDocument": "aapl-20260410.htm",
    "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019326000045/aapl-20260410.htm",
    "edgarUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000320193&accession_number=0000320193-26-000045",
    "items": ["2.03", "9.01"],
    "isXBRL": true,
    "isInlineXBRL": true,
    "sizeBytes": 1234567,
    "extractedAt": "2026-04-15T19:00:00.000Z"
}

Data table

Field	Type	Description
ticker	string	Stock symbol
companyName	string	Legal company name
cik	string	SEC Central Index Key (10-digit, zero-padded)
formType	string	Filing form type
filingDate	string	Date filed with SEC (YYYY-MM-DD)
reportDate	string	Period the filing covers
accessionNumber	string	Unique SEC identifier
primaryDocument	string	Filename of the primary filing document
filingUrl	string	Direct link to the filing
edgarUrl	string	Human-browsable EDGAR page
items	array	8-K event item codes (e.g. ["1.01", "9.01"])
isXBRL	boolean	Has structured XBRL data
sizeBytes	number	Filing size in bytes
content	string	(Optional) Full filing text body, max 50KB
extractedAt	string	ISO timestamp

Pricing

This actor uses Apify's pay-per-event pricing — perfect for use cases that need either bulk historical pulls or low-latency real-time monitoring:

• Actor start: $0.05 per run (covers ticker mapping + initial setup)
• Per filing extracted: $0.05 per filing pushed to the dataset

Example costs:

• Monitoring 10 companies, ~50 filings/quarter → $2.55/quarter
• Daily check on the S&P 500 for new 8-K filings (~20/day) → ~$30/month
• Bulk historical pull of all 8-K filings for one ticker over 5 years → ~$10
• Full real-time monitoring of all S&P 500 companies → ~$300-500/month

Compare to Bloomberg Terminal at $25,000/year, FactSet at $12,000/year, or commercial SEC API services at $99-$2,000/month with rate limits. For most use cases this actor is dramatically cheaper.

Free Apify tier members get $5/month in platform credits, which covers ~100 filings per month.

Tips and advanced options

• Schedule hourly runs during market hours to catch material events in near-real-time
• Filter by 8-K item codes in your downstream pipeline to focus on the events that matter (1.01 M&A, 2.02 earnings, 4.02 restated financials, 5.02 exec departures, 8.01 other material events)
• Combine with the Domain Lead Enricher to enrich newly-filed S-1 (IPO) companies with their tech stack and contact info
• Pipe to your trading system via Apify webhooks for low-latency event processing
• Build the entire SEC EDGAR archive using bulk historical pulls + a long sinceDate
• Train an NLP model on filings by setting extractContent: true and dumping to JSONL

FAQ and support

Is the data official? Yes — it comes directly from data.sec.gov and www.sec.gov, the official US Securities and Exchange Commission API and archive.

What's the latency? SEC's submissions API is updated within ~1 second of filings being accepted by EDGAR. The actor itself adds ~5-10 seconds of overhead per company query (to respect SEC's 10 req/sec rate limit).

Can I get filing content for an LLM pipeline? Yes — set extractContent: true and the actor will fetch each filing's primary document and return cleaned text (up to 50KB per filing).

What about XBRL data? XBRL flags are returned in each row. To pull the actual XBRL financial data, use the SEC company facts API directly: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK{cik}.json.

Is this legal? Yes — SEC EDGAR is a free public service and the SEC explicitly encourages programmatic access (with a User-Agent header identifying yourself, which this actor provides).

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