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📰 SEC Form 8-K Material Events Tracker — M&A, executive departures, bankruptcies, funding events — straight from EDGAR

Track every SEC Form 8-K material event filing — M&A announcements, executive departures, bankruptcies, material agreements, funding events, and earnings releases. Each 8-K must be filed within 4 business days of the event. This actor parses the item code, summary, attachments, and the company financial context so you can act on market-moving filings within minutes.

One actor. One token. Real-time regulator-direct data delivered in structured JSON.

Why This Actor Beats Bloomberg Terminal, FactSet, Refinitiv Eikon

• Item-coded for instant filtering: Item 1.01 (material agreements), 2.01 (acquisitions), 5.02 (officer departures), 8.01 (other events) — every 8-K has structured item codes that map to the event type. We parse them so you can filter to just M&A or just officer changes.
• Real-time vs. terminal subscription: Bloomberg's 8-K alert function requires a $24K terminal seat per user. We charge $0.12 per filing. A whole year of every 8-K for the S&P 500 costs less than one terminal-month.
• Attached exhibits parsed: Most 8-Ks include exhibits — merger agreements, press releases, financial statements. We surface the exhibit list and URLs so you can pull the underlying documents.
• Webhook delivery: Pipe new 8-Ks into your Slack channel, your trading system, or your news terminal in real time.

What You Get

Every record returned by this actor is structured JSON with the following fields populated wherever the source filing provides them:

• Issuer name, ticker, CIK
• Filing date, event date, accession number, EDGAR URL
• Item codes filed (e.g. 1.01, 2.01, 5.02, 8.01)
• Item code descriptions — material agreement, acquisition, officer departure, etc.
• Full text body of the filing
• Exhibit list with names, types, and direct URLs
• Press release flag and parsed press release text
• Departing officer name and role (when item 5.02)
• M&A counterparty and announced deal value (when item 1.01/2.01)
• Ticker quote context (last close, change since filing)

The full output schema is stable across runs — safe to load into Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, or your data warehouse without re-mapping each refresh.

Use Cases

• Event-driven traders — Get alerted within minutes of M&A announcements, bankruptcies, and major officer changes — the events that move stocks 5-30%.
• M&A bankers — Monitor competitor deal announcements and identify potential targets the day an item 1.01 hits.
• Risk teams — Flag bankruptcy filings (item 1.03) and going-concern disclosures in your credit portfolio.
• PR and investor relations — Benchmark your company's 8-K filing cadence against peers.
• Journalists — Build a feed of every C-suite departure as it happens.
• Academic researchers — Study market reactions to 8-K item codes across decades of filings.
• Legal teams — Track contract amendments and material agreements your clients are entering.

Quick Start

Install the Apify Python client, set your token, and call the actor:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("nexgendata/sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper").call(run_input={
"maxItems":100,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)

You can also trigger via cURL:

curl-X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/nexgendata~sec-form-8k-material-events-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN"\
-H"Content-Type: application/json"\
-d'{"maxItems": 100}'

Schedule it on Apify's built-in scheduler for daily, hourly, or every-5-minute refreshes — no infra required.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing on Apify. Primary event: 8-K filing at $0.12 per record. An Actor Start fee of $0.00005 applies per run (charged per GB of memory, minimum 1). No subscription, no seat licence, no procurement cycle — pay only for the rows you receive.

For high-volume use cases (100K+ records/month), contact us at NexGenData for volume discounts.

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FAQ

Q: Why are 8-Ks filed within 4 business days?

A: SEC requires reporting companies to disclose material events within 4 business days under Regulation FD. This makes 8-K filings the most time-sensitive corporate disclosure.

Q: Can I filter by item code?

A: Yes. Pass item_codes=['1.01','2.01'] to capture only material agreements and acquisitions, or ['5.02'] for officer changes.

Q: How fresh is the data?

A: EDGAR publishes 8-K filings as soon as they're accepted — typically within seconds. The actor sees them on the next scheduled run.

Q: Do you parse the exhibit PDFs?

A: We surface exhibit URLs and metadata. PDF parsing of attached merger agreements is a downstream step you can do with your own tooling.

Q: What's the historical depth?

A: EDGAR 8-K archive starts in 1996. Most recent 25+ years are reliably parseable.

Q: Is this legal?

A: Yes. 8-K filings are public SEC disclosures. The actor reads the same public stream every Bloomberg user sees.

About NexGenData

NexGenData publishes 200+ buyer-intent Apify actors covering SEC filings, federal regulatory data (EPA, FTC, CFPB, FEC, IRS 990, FAA), private-market intelligence (Form D, IPO, 13F, 13D/G), stock screeners across 30+ exchanges (NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, TSX, ASX, HKEX, KOSPI, SGX, B3, BSE), B2B lead generation, and competitive intelligence. All actors are pay-per-result with no seat licences and no minimum commitments.

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Built by independent regulatory-data engineers. Reach out via the Apify message form for custom data integrations.

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