Products / DIRECTORY

API contracts for discovery, documents, financial data, and exports.

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Reference

Company identifiers

Search current company tickers and names, or retrieve a CIK profile.

Search & discovery

Filing search by company

Filter one issuer’s recent filings or traverse its available SEC history.

SEC full-text searchBeta

Search official SEC document matches across companies, with form and date filters.

Daily filing indexBeta

Retrieve and filter the SEC daily master filing index for a selected date.

Financial data

Reported XBRL facts

Query reported companyfacts observations without dropping units or periods.

Documents & extraction

Filing documents & exhibitsBeta

List an accession’s document manifest and retrieve supported document text.

Filing section extractionBeta

Extract supported 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K narrative sections using document headings.

Source-native XML to JSONBeta

Read a filing’s actual XML structure as JSON with decimal strings and attributes retained.

Ownership

Insider transactions & holdingsBeta

Read Forms 3, 4, and 5 ownership XML, preserving transaction and holding record types.

13F information tablesBeta

Parse a manager’s filed information table with reported positions and voting authority.

Quarterly insider transactions

Query imported SEC Form 3/4/5 transaction records across issuers, preserving source strings and footnotes.

Data exports

JSON & CSV exports

Export ticker snapshots and pages of filings or reported facts.

AI agents

MCP server for AI agents

Connect an API-key-capable MCP client to read-only SEC search, filing, fact, document, and ownership tools.

Offering data

Form D offering notices

Query imported SEC Form D notices across issuers, with offering fields, amendment links and archive provenance.

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Datasets / DIRECTORY

Browse per-issuer filing metadata by form. Each dataset documents its coverage.

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Reports

Annual reports · 10-K

10-K filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Quarterly reports · 10-Q

10-Q filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Foreign annual reports · 20-F

20-F filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Canadian annual reports · 40-F

40-F filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Events

Current reports · 8-K

8-K filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Foreign current reports · 6-K

6-K filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Regulation A current reports · 1-U

1-U filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Proxy & governance

Definitive proxy statements · DEF 14A

DEF 14A filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Preliminary proxy statements · PRE 14A

PRE 14A filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Additional proxy materials · DEFA14A

DEFA14A filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Merger proxy statements · DEFM14A

DEFM14A filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Information statements · DEF 14C

DEF 14C filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Ownership

Initial insider ownership · 3

3 filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Insider ownership changes · 4

4 filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Annual insider statements · 5

5 filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Proposed restricted sales · 144

144 filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Institutional holdings reports · 13F-HR

13F-HR filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

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Offerings

Registration statements · S-1

S-1 filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Shelf registrations · S-3

S-3 filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Business combination registrations · S-4

S-4 filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Employee plan registrations · S-8

S-8 filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Foreign registration statements · F-1

F-1 filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

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Funds

Fund portfolio reports · NPORT-P

NPORT-P filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Fund annual census · N-CEN

N-CEN filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Proxy voting reports · N-PX

N-PX filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Fund shareholder reports · N-CSR

N-CSR filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Fund registration statements · N-1A

N-1A filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

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Structured finance

Asset-backed distribution reports · 10-D

10-D filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Asset-backed exhibits · ABS-EE

ABS-EE filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

SEC notices

Effectiveness notices · EFFECT

EFFECT filing metadata by SEC CIK: dates, accession numbers, and original document links.

Imported bulk data

Form D quarterly offering records · D

Cross-issuer source-native offering records from the imported 2026Q3 SEC bulk archive.

Quarterly insider transaction records · 3 / 4 / 5

Imported cross-issuer SEC ownership transaction tables with filing provenance and source footnotes.

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Tutorials / DIRECTORY

Runnable workflows, explicit parameters, and source-aware integration patterns.

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JavaScript workflows

Find recent SEC filings from a ticker with JavaScript

Build a two-request Node.js workflow: resolve a ticker to a CIK, filter recent SEC filings by form, and retain the original document links and source metadata.

Build a provenance check for SEC filing responses

Write a small Node.js check for source URLs, fetch timestamps, stale flags, filing identifiers, and document links without overstating what metadata proves.

Paginate available SEC filing history with JavaScript

Traverse an issuer’s available SEC history with a bounded request budget, deduplicate accessions, and detect source snapshot changes.

Find and download SEC filing document text

Resolve a filing accession, inspect its real document manifest, and retrieve a bounded page of document text with Node.js.

Extract a 10-K risk-factor section with source context

Find an annual report and request Item1A using bounded heading-based extraction, retaining method and source metadata.

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Python workflows

Export SEC companyfacts to CSV with Python

Use Python’s standard library to export bounded pages of reported SEC facts, preserving units, periods, accession numbers, and a separate source-provenance file.

Read a daily SEC filing index with Python

Retrieve a published daily master index, preserve its source metadata, and distinguish daily filing discovery from real-time alerts.

Download SEC filing metadata CSV and preserve its headers

Export a bounded annual-filing metadata page with Python, saving source and pagination headers next to the CSV.

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