SEC Form 4 Insider Trades Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

Every SEC Form 4 filing carries an <ownershipDocument> XML body listing the actual insider trades behind the filing -- who traded, how many shares, at what price, under which transaction code, and what they own afterward. Most EDGAR tooling stops at the filing index (form type, date, accession number); this Actor goes one level deeper and parses that XML directly, resolving tickers to CIKs, walking each issuer's recent Form 4 filings, and emitting one row per buy, sell, award, or option-exercise line item -- joint filings included, with every reporting owner correctly attributed to their share of each transaction.

What we handle for you

• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 429 / 5xx and honours Retry-After -- we never hammer SEC's servers into a block.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing -- a shared request-interval floor keeps every run inside SEC's ~10 req/s polite-use ceiling, even across concurrent runs.
• 🧾 Transaction-level parsing, not just a filing index -- every buy, sell, award, and exercise line item, with footnote-only fields honestly reported as null instead of guessed.
• 🧊 Joint filings handled correctly -- every reporting owner on a multi-owner Form 4 gets attributed rows, never silently dropped.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows -- Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable accession-number IDs.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing -- you only pay for transaction rows that land in your dataset. No data, no charge (beyond the small warm-up fee).

Use cases

• Insider-trading signal feeds -- quant and fintech shops ingesting transaction-level buy/sell data as a raw factor input.
• Activist and executive-conviction tracking -- flag large open-market buys (code P) by officers and directors across a watchlist.
• Equity research workflows -- pull every recent insider transaction for a covered issuer without hand-parsing XML.
• Financial media and newsletters -- surface notable Form 4 activity (large sells, cluster buying) for a daily brief.
• Compliance and governance monitoring -- audit officer/director trading windows against blackout-period policy.

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"
  ],
  "lookbackDays": 30,
  "maxFilingsPerIssuer": 3,
  "includeDerivative": true,
  "includeNonDerivative": true,
  "userAgent": "DevilScrapes-Form4/1.0 (contact: apify.com/DevilScrapes)",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

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.

issuer_cikissuer_nameissuer_tickerowner_cikowner_nameis_directoris_officeris_ten_percent_ownerofficer_titletransaction_datetransaction_codetransaction_code_labelis_derivativesecurity_titleshares_transactedprice_per_share

{
  "issuer_cik": "0000320193",
  "issuer_name": "Apple Inc.",
  "issuer_ticker": "AAPL",
  "owner_cik": "0002148403",
  "owner_name": "Ternus John",
  "is_director": true,
  "is_officer": true,
  "is_ten_percent_owner": false,
  "officer_title": "CEO",
  "transaction_date": "2026-09-01",
  "transaction_code": "A",
  "transaction_code_label": "Grant/award/other acquisition",
  "is_derivative": true,
  "security_title": "Restricted Stock Unit",
  "shares_transacted": 7690.0,
  "price_per_share": null,
  "transaction_value_usd": null,
  "acquired_disposed": "A",
  "shares_owned_after": 7690.0,
  "ownership_nature": "D",
  "indirect_ownership_note": null,
  "underlying_security_title": "Common Stock",
  "underlying_shares": 7690.0,
  "exercise_price": null,
  "exercise_date": null,
  "expiration_date": null,
  "accession_number": "0001140361-26-035362",
  "filed_at": "2026-09-01T18:32:04-04:00",
  "period_of_report": "2026-09-01",
  "source_xml_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126035362/form4.xml",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-03T12:00:00+00:00"
}

Pricing

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

Limitations

• Form 4 only -- Form 3 (initial ownership) and Form 5 (annual) filings are out of scope.
• No unbounded historical backfill -- lookback is bounded by lookbackDays and maxFilingsPerIssuer, with older filings pulled from an issuer's overflow submissions pages only as needed to cover the window.
• No "sweep everything filed today" firehose entry point -- you supply the tickers/CIKs to sweep; there's no reverse market-wide Form 4 stream in v1.
• Amended filings (form "4/A") are excluded by default.