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SEC EDGAR Full-Text M&A Filings Scraper

🚀 Export SEC EDGAR full-text search hits in seconds. Mergers, acquisitions, and any keyword across all public filings.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 . 📊 9 fields per record . Public API . Real-time

The SEC EDGAR Full-Text M&A Filings Scraper turns the SEC EDGAR full-text search public REST endpoint into a clean, structured dataset.

📋 What the SEC EDGAR Full-Text M&A Filings Scraper does

• Calls https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index with your query.
• Flattens each hit into a row with company, CIK, form type, filing date, snippet.
• Supports date range, form type, and CIK filters.
• Surfaces upstream errors as clean rows.

💡 Why it matters. The source returns raw API payloads that most data tools cannot ingest directly. This actor normalizes everything into a flat row format ready for analysis.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Example 1.

{
"q":"merger agreement",
"forms":"8-K",
"maxItems":50
}

Example 2.

{
"q":"tender offer",
"dateRange":"custom",
"startdt":"2025-01-01",
"enddt":"2025-12-31",
"maxItems":100
}

⚠️ Good to Know. This actor uses a public endpoint. No login or API key is required.

📊 Output

Sample record.

{
"company":"Apple Inc.",
"cik":"0000320193",
"formType":"8-K",
"filingDate":"2025-09-12",
"accessionNumber":"0001185185-13-002042",
"snippet":"merger agreement dated...",
"url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/...",
"scrapedAt":"2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z",
"error":null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public source, no API key required. | | 🧹 | Clean snake_case fields ready for BI tools. | | 🔢 | Numeric values auto-cast for spreadsheets. | | 🛟 | Errors surfaced as a clean record instead of crashing. | | 💾 | Push to dataset for instant export in multiple formats. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Adjust maxItems if needed (defaults to 10).
3. Click Start. Within seconds, your dataset is ready for download or integration.

💼 Business use cases

📊 Analytics dashboards. Pipe results into BI tools.

💼 Backtesting. Snapshot data daily for reproducible analysis.

📰 Reporting. Embed live numbers in newsletters or briefings.

🤖 ML feature engineering. Build training sets from public data.

🔌 Automating SEC EDGAR Full-Text M&A Filings Scraper

• Make / Zapier. Trigger this actor on a schedule, push results to Airtable, Google Sheets, or Slack.
• Cron schedule. Native Apify scheduler.
• Webhooks. POST to your endpoint when a run finishes.
• Pipe to BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres. Native Apify integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Use real data in finance and economics classes.

🧪 Personal research. Track your own metrics without coding.

🤝 Non-profit and open data. Build public dashboards with current numbers.

🧰 Tinkering and prototyping. Spin up a feed in seconds for new ideas.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Pop this README into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant and ask it to map your workflow to the actor inputs.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No. EDGAR full-text search is public.

❓ What forms can I search? Any EDGAR form. Pass a list like 8-K,10-K,S-1 in forms.

❓ Can I limit to a date range? Yes via dateRange, startdt, and enddt inputs.

❓ How fresh are results? EDGAR indexes filings within minutes.

❓ Will the schema change? company, cik, formType, filingDate, and accessionNumber are stable.

❓ Is rate limiting strict? SEC asks for a User-Agent. This actor sets one.

❓ Can I track an issuer? Yes via the ciks input.

❓ Can I schedule runs? Yes via Apify scheduler, Make, Zapier, or cron.

❓ What if upstream errors? A single record with error populated is pushed.

❓ Is this scraping or API? API. EDGAR full-text search has a stable JSON endpoint.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook endpoint.

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