/sec/search/companies

POST /api/sec/search/companies

Price: 1 credit

Search SEC EDGAR filings by full-text query, company, form type, date range and location

How to use it

Search SEC EDGAR filings by full-text query over filing contents, company name or ticker, exact CIK, form type, date range, and business location.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• q string — Full-text query over filing contents. Supports exact phrases in quotes and boolean logic (default: ""; examples: "climate change", "\"share repurchase\"")
• entity_name string — Company name or ticker symbol to search for (default: ""; examples: "apple", "AAPL")
• ciks array nullable — Exact company identifiers (CIK) to filter by, with leading zeros (examples: ["0000320193"], ["0000320193","0000789019"])
• forms array nullable — List of form types to filter by. Prefix with '-' to exclude (e.g., ['-3', '-4', '-5']) (examples: ["10-K","10-Q","8-K"], ["-3","-4","-5"])
• location_codes array nullable — State codes to filter by (e.g., ['CA', 'NY']) (examples: ["CA"], ["NY","CA"])
• date_from string nullable — Start date in YYYY-MM-DD format (examples: "2024-01-01")
• date_to string nullable — End date in YYYY-MM-DD format (examples: "2024-12-31")
• count integer required — Maximum number of results to return (min: 1; max: 10000)

Response

• @type string (default: "SECFiling")
• accession_number string required
• file_name string required
• document_url string required
• filing_type string nullable
• file_date string nullable
• period_ending string nullable
• ciks array nullable
• display_names array nullable
• file_description string nullable
• biz_locations array nullable
• biz_states array nullable
• inc_states array nullable
• sics array nullable
• items array nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.