SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper — 10-K, 10-Q & 8-K

What this Actor scrapes

The SEC EDGAR system (sec.gov) publishes every public-company filing — 10-K annual reports, 10-Q quarterlies, 8-K material events, S-1 registration statements, proxy statements, Form 4 insider-transaction filings, SC 13D beneficial-ownership reports, and more. The system exposes both per-company submissions endpoints and full-text search APIs.

This SEC EDGAR filings scraper wraps the per-company submissions endpoint, resolves ticker symbols to 10-digit CIKs automatically, and writes one Pydantic-validated dataset row per filing — including form type, period, filing date, accession number, and the direct URL to the primary document. We handle the rate-limit ceiling (~10 req/sec polite limit), backoff on 429s, and User-Agent compliance so you never have to.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a legitimate browser session, not Python.
• 🌐 Proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every retry, keeping your run clean through any turbulence.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per request, with Retry-After headers honoured automatically.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when EDGAR pushes back, we slow down instead of hammering and getting your run flagged.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable accession-number IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that land in your dataset. No data, no charge (beyond the small warm-up fee).

Use cases

• Earnings calendar automation — schedule a daily diff for 10-Q and 10-K filings across your covered companies. Build your own earnings calendar without paying for a vendor feed.
• 8-K filing alert and material-events monitoring — pull every 8-K for your watchlist; pipe to Slack or email via n8n / Make / Zapier. Sub-minute freshness is not guaranteed (SEC publishes in batches), but daily-cadence monitoring is solid.
• M&A and activist-investor monitoring — filter for S-4 merger filings and SC 13D beneficial-ownership disclosures. Ideal for investigative journalists and M&A research desks.
• Insider trading filings API substitute — harvest Form 4 filings for any issuer without a per-seat subscription. Use as a free research tool; complement sec-api.io for production.
• Investigative data journalism — structured rows ready for pandas, Jupyter, or R. Used by data-desk reporters at NICAR-affiliated newsrooms for document-heavy investigations.
• Academic finance research — replicate event-study datasets; bulk-download 10-Ks for NLP analysis; reconstruct historical S-1 filings for IPO research.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "tickers": [
    "AAPL"
  ],
  "formTypes": [
    "10-K"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerCompany": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

ciktickercompany_nameform_typeaccession_numberfiling_datereport_dateacceptance_datetimeprimary_documentprimary_document_urlfiling_index_urlis_xbrlscraped_at

{
  "cik": "0000320193",
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "company_name": "Apple Inc.",
  "form_type": "10-K",
  "accession_number": "0000320193-24-000123",
  "filing_date": "2024-11-01",
  "report_date": "2024-09-28",
  "acceptance_datetime": "2024-11-01T06:01:36.000Z",
  "primary_document": "aapl-20240928.htm",
  "primary_document_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019324000123/aapl-20240928.htm",
  "filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000320193&type=10-K",
  "is_xbrl": true,
  "scraped_at": "2024-11-02T09:14:22.000Z"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.

Limitations

• Filing history depth: we pull from each company's submissions/CIK#.json, which covers the most recent ~1 000 filings. For historical filings beyond that window, the EDGAR full-text search and per-year archive endpoints need a separate request pattern.
• Ticker resolution scope: ticker-to-CIK resolution works for the operating-company set in SEC's company_tickers.json. Mutual-fund CIKs and individual-filer CIKs are supported if you supply the CIK directly.
• Filing content: we surface primary_document_url and filing_index_url — we do not download or parse the filing body. Pair with a generic HTML fetcher to retrieve the actual document text.
• Sub-minute freshness: SEC publishes filings to EDGAR in processing batches; new filings can take minutes to appear in the submissions API. For near-real-time push, use SEC's RSS or PDS feeds alongside this scraper.
• Form 4 display names: insider-person names are in the XML body of the Form 4 — not in the submissions metadata we extract. primary_document_url links directly to the XML for downstream parsing.