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New SEC 8-K filings as an alert feed: every item decoded into plain English and ranked high, medium or low, with a severity filter and new-only monitor mode. Bankruptcy, cyber, restatement, delisting alerts. Also 10-K, IPO, full-text.
| Field | Name | Required | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
formTypes | Form types | yes | SEC forms to return, one per line. Examples: 8-K, 10-K, 10-Q, S-1, F-1, 424B* (all final prospectuses), 13D, 13G, 6-K, 20-F, DEF 14A, S-4, 425, SC TO-T, NT 10-K. Shortcuts: IPO... |
eightKItems | 8-K items (events) | no | Only 8-K filings that report at least one of these items. Use codes or event names: 1.01 material agreement, 1.03 bankruptcy, 1.05 cybersecurity incident, 2.01 acquisition... |
minSeverity | Minimum event severity | no | Return only 8-K filings whose most serious item is at least this tier. Combine with 'Only new filings since last run' for a material-event alert feed. Any value other than 'any'... |
tickers | Tickers | no | Only filings by these companies, by exchange ticker (AAPL, MSFT, BRK-B). Resolved to CIK with the official SEC ticker file. Leave empty for the whole market. |
ciks | CIK numbers | no | Only filings by these companies, by SEC Central Index Key (with or without leading zeros, e.g. 320193). Works for private and pre-IPO companies that have no ticker. |
fullTextQuery | Full-text phrase | no | Optional. Search inside the filing text and exhibits with EDGAR full-text search, for example "going concern", "material weakness" or "artificial intelligence". Put a phrase in... |
filedWithinDays | Filed within the last (days) | no | Look-back window counted back from today (or from the 'Filed to' date). Default 7 days. |
filedFrom | Filed from (optional) | no | Exact start date (YYYY-MM-DD). Overrides the look-back when set. EDGAR full-text search covers 2001 onward. |
filedTo | Filed to (optional) | no | Exact end date (YYYY-MM-DD). Default today. |
includeAmendments | Include amendments (/A) | no | Keep amended filings such as 8-K/A and 10-K/A. Turn off to get original filings only. |
onlyNewSinceLastRun | Only new since last run (monitor mode) | no | Remember every accession number delivered and skip it in later runs, so a scheduled run returns (and charges) only filings you have not received yet. Uses a named key-value store... |
stateStoreName | Monitor state store name | no | Name of the key-value store that keeps the delivered accession numbers. Use a different name per schedule to keep separate watch lists. |
maxItems | Max filings | no | Stop after this many filings. Newest first (or most relevant first with a full-text phrase). You pay only for filings delivered. |
maxApiRequests | Max SEC requests | no | Safety cap on requests to SEC per run (each search page holds 100 filings). Raise it for large backfills. |
One row per result. These are the 36 fields declared in the actor's dataset schema (field list from the schema, not a sample run).
| Field | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
accessionNumber | string | SEC accession number, the unique ID of the filing (for example 0001193125-26-123456). |
formType | string | Form as filed, including /A for amendments (8-K, 8-K/A, 10-K, S-1, SCHEDULE 13D ...). |
baseFormType | string | Form type without the /A amendment suffix. |
isAmendment | boolean | True when the filing amends an earlier one (/A). |
filingCategory | string | Plain category: current_report, annual_report, quarterly_report, ipo_registration, prospectus, proxy, beneficial_ownership_5pct, merger_acquisition,... |
filedAt | string | Date the filing was accepted by EDGAR (YYYY-MM-DD). |
periodOfReport | string | Period end or event date the filing reports on (YYYY-MM-DD), when given. |
companyName | string | Registrant (filer company) name as on EDGAR. For Schedules 13D/13G this is the subject company. |
cik | string | 10-digit SEC Central Index Key of the company. |
tickers | array | Exchange tickers of the company (from the SEC ticker file), empty for private or pre-IPO companies. |
exchange | string | Listing exchange from the SEC ticker file (Nasdaq, NYSE, CBOE, OTC). |
sic | string | 4-digit Standard Industrial Classification code assigned by the SEC. |
sicDescription | string | SIC industry name (for example Pharmaceutical Preparations). |
stateOfIncorporation | string | EDGAR state or country code of incorporation (DE, NV, E9 ...). |
stateOfIncorporationName | string | State or country of incorporation, decoded. |
businessState | string | EDGAR state or country code of the business address. |
businessStateName | string | State or country of the business address, decoded. |
businessLocation | string | City and state of the business address as indexed by EDGAR. |
fileNumber | string | SEC file number of the registration (for example 001-12345 or 333-123456). |
eightKItems | array | 8-K item codes reported in the filing (for example 2.02, 5.02). |
eightKItemLabels | array | Official titles of the reported 8-K items, in plain English. |
eightKEventTypes | array | Short event tags derived from the items (earnings, executive_change, material_agreement, bankruptcy, restatement, cybersecurity_incident ...). |
eventSummary | string | What the 8-K says happened, decoded from its item numbers into plain English, e.g. 'Changed its outside auditor; Said past financial statements can no longer... |
eventSeverity | string | Highest materiality tier among the 8-K items: high (bankruptcy, cyber incident, restatement, delisting notice, change in control, debt acceleration,... |
highSeverityItems | array | The 8-K item codes on this filing that are in the high tier (empty when none). |
isPreIpo | boolean | For S-1, F-1 and S-11 registrations: true when the company has no listed ticker yet (likely IPO). Empty for other forms. |
coFilerCount | integer | Number of additional entities on the same filing (co-registrants or other filers). Their names are not output. |
documentDescription | string | Description of the matched document as given by the filer. |
primaryDocumentUrl | string | Direct link to the main document of the filing on sec.gov. |
filingIndexUrl | string | Link to the EDGAR filing index page listing every document and exhibit. |
companyFilingsUrl | string | Link to the company's EDGAR filing list for this form type. |
fullTextQuery | string | The full-text search phrase that matched, when one was used. |
fullTextMatchedDocumentUrl | string | Link to the document (main filing or exhibit) where the phrase was found. |
fullTextMatchedDocumentType | string | Type of the matched document (for example 8-K, EX-99.1, EX-10.1). |
fullTextScore | number | EDGAR full-text search relevance score of the match (higher = more relevant). |
scrapedAt | string | Timestamp when the row was collected (ISO 8601). |
Public data only, no login. Fields a source does not publish come back empty rather than guessed. Coverage and freshness follow the underlying public source.
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