SEC filing discovery
EDGAR Filing Search API
Find the filing before the market narrative hardens.
Search SEC filings by issuer, form, date, accession, and filing metadata. Use it for monitoring, diligence, and backtests that need the filed record rather than a vendor summary.
Category
Discovery
Grouped for navigation, not for access control.
Primary use
Investor workflow
Built around diligence, monitoring, and source-backed analysis.
Access
API key
Use the x-api-key header for authenticated requests.
Investor use cases
Where it earns its keep
- Monitor new 8-Ks, 10-Qs, and offering filings for a watchlist.
- Backfill a research database by form type and issuer.
- Anchor agent-written research to accession numbers.
Workflow
How to use it without losing provenance
- Resolve the issuer, query filings, retrieve the accession, then extract sections or facts.
- Store accession, filing date, form, CIK, and source URL with downstream notes.
Example request
Code
curl "https://api.secapi.ai/v1/filings?ticker=AAPL&form=10-K&limit=5" \
-H "x-api-key: $SECAPI_API_KEY"Endpoints
/v1/filings/v1/filings/latest/v1/filings/{accession_number}Limitations
What to check before relying on the output
- Filing availability and extracted-content availability are separate coverage layers.
- Amendments should be compared by accession, not collapsed away.
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All APIs
SEC filing discovery
EDGAR Filing Search API
Search and retrieve SEC filings with canonical metadata, accession numbers, and source links.
Disclosure retrieval
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Financial statement extraction
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Research outputs
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Dataset analytics
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