SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

This Actor is a direct client for SEC EDGAR's full-text search index (efts.sec.gov) — the same backend behind the official EDGAR full-text search UI. Give it a phrase, optionally narrow by form type, date range, or a single filer's CIK, and it returns one row per matching filing: accession number, form type, filer names and CIKs, SIC codes, business locations, relevance score, and a direct link to the filing's index page.

This is deliberately not a per-company filing lister and not a Form D lead-gen tool — we ship both of those separately (sec-edgar-filings-scraper for "every filing company X ever made"; sec-form-d-leads for Regulation D capital-raise leads). If you want "which filings anywhere mention this phrase," you're in the right place.

What we handle for you

• 🔎 Phrase search across every form type — 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, and everything else EDGAR indexes, all in one query.
• 📅 Date-range and CIK filters — narrow to a quarter, a year, or one filer.
• 🧊 Structured rows, not HTML — accession number, form type, filer identity, SIC codes, and a resolved filing-index URL, every time.
• 🛡️ We handle the fair-access gate. EDGAR requires a descriptive User-Agent with contact info or it 403s — we send one so you don't have to figure that out.
• 🔁 We retry on transport failures with exponential backoff, and we track EDGAR's own 10,000-row pagination ceiling so a broad query never silently truncates without telling you.
• 💰 You pay only for results that land. No matches → no per-row charge, only the small warm-up fee.

Use cases

• Compliance & legal research — find every 8-K mentioning "material weakness" in a quarter, across the entire market.
• Investigative journalism — trace a phrase (a product name, an executive, a lawsuit) across every filer that mentioned it.
• Investor due diligence — check whether a company's own 10-Ks ever mentioned "going concern," "stock buyback," or a competitor by name.
• Market research — count how many filers mention a technology, regulation, or trend across a date window.

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.

{
  "query": "material weakness",
  "forms": [
    "8-K"
  ],
  "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-03-31",
  "maxResults": 200
}

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.

accession_numberform_typeroot_formfiled_datecompany_namescikssic_codesrelevance_scorefiling_index_url

{
  "accession_number": "0000320193-23-000106",
  "form_type": "10-K",
  "root_form": "10-K",
  "filed_date": "2023-11-03",
  "period_ending": "2023-09-30",
  "company_names": [
    "Apple Inc."
  ],
  "ciks": [
    "0000320193"
  ],
  "primary_cik": "0000320193",
  "sic_codes": [
    "3571"
  ],
  "business_locations": [
    "CA"
  ],
  "file_numbers": [
    "001-36743"
  ],
  "relevance_score": 12.4,
  "filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019323000106/0000320193-23-000106-index.htm",
  "edgar_hit_id": "0000320193-23-000106:0"
}

Pricing

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

Limitations

• EDGAR's full-text search index covers filings from 2001-01-01 onward — this is a platform limit, not an Actor bug.
• Pagination stops at EDGAR's own 10,000-row ceiling per query; a very broad query will hit this before returning every match.
• This Actor returns the filing's search hit and index-page link, not the filing document body or XBRL data.