SEC EDGAR Insider Trading & 8-K Alert Monitor

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Monitor SEC EDGAR for Form 4 insider trades (buy/sell transactions by executives, directors, and large shareholders) and Form 8-K material events (M&A, earnings, CFO departures, bankruptcy, and more).

• ✅ Watch specific tickers — AAPL, TSLA, MSFT, etc.
• ✅ Firehose mode — latest filings across all public US companies
• ✅ Minimum value filter — skip noise, surface only significant insider moves
• ✅ Zero auth / no proxies needed — uses the official SEC EDGAR JSON & Atom APIs
• ✅ SEC fair-access compliant — rate-limited, identifies your contact as required by SEC policy

What it outputs

Form 4 rows (one row per transaction)

8-K rows (one row per filing)

Input options

Quickstart

Ticker mode — watch a handful of companies

{
"tickers":["AAPL","MSFT","NVDA","TSLA"],
"formTypes":["4"],
"lookbackDays":7,
"minTransactionValue":100000,
"userAgentContact":"YourName contact@yourdomain.com"
}

Firehose mode — every Form 4 filing across all of US public markets

{
"tickers":[],
"formTypes":["4"],
"maxLatestFilings":100,
"minTransactionValue":1000000,
"userAgentContact":"YourName contact@yourdomain.com"
}

8-K material event monitor for a watchlist

{
"tickers":["META","AMZN","GOOGL"],
"formTypes":["8-K"],
"lookbackDays":3,
"userAgentContact":"YourName contact@yourdomain.com"
}

Scheduling tips

Run this on a daily or hourly schedule via Apify's built-in scheduler to get fresh insider trading signals as soon as they hit EDGAR. Combine with a webhook to push results to Slack, Google Sheets, or your own database.

Data source & legal

All data is sourced from SEC EDGAR, the official US government repository of public company filings. This data is in the public domain. This actor does not scrape any third-party paid data source and complies fully with SEC's fair access policy.

Limitations

• Form 4 parsing covers standard non-derivative and derivative transactions. Unusual formats (paper filings scanned as PDFs, legacy HTML submissions) fall back to metadata-only output rows with ok: false and a direct link so you can check manually.
• 8-K item detection is best-effort text extraction. It correctly identifies Item codes in the vast majority of modern EDGAR HTML filings. Non-standard or inline XBRL filings may produce empty items arrays; the documentUrl link is always included.
• Firehose mode depends on SEC's getcurrent Atom feed, which is updated in near-real-time but not officially guaranteed to list every filing within any specific SLA.