SEC EDGAR without an API key: filings, XBRL financials, full-text search

EDGAR is free, but it isn't one API

The SEC publishes three useful surfaces, each with its own shape:

• Submissions — a company's full filing history (data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK##########.json).
• Company facts — XBRL financial values (companyfacts), per concept.
• Full-text search — efts.sec.gov across all filings.

The SEC EDGAR API Actor wraps all three behind one input and emits one row schema.

Three modes

{ "queries": ["AAPL"], "mode": "filings", "formTypes": ["10-K"], "maxFilingsPerCompany": 4 }

{ "queries": ["TSLA"], "mode": "facts", "concepts": ["Revenues", "NetIncomeLoss"], "unitsFilter": "USD" }

{ "queries": ["\"generative AI\""], "mode": "search", "searchForms": ["10-K"], "maxSearchHits": 50 }

A filing row

{
  "recordType": "filing",
  "cik": "0001045810",
  "entityName": "NVIDIA CORP",
  "ticker": "NVDA",
  "accessionNumber": "0001045810-26-000021",
  "formType": "10-K",
  "filingDate": "2026-02-25",
  "reportDate": "2026-01-25",
  "primaryDocument": "nvda-20260125.htm",
  "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/...",
  "isXBRL": true,
  "isInlineXBRL": true
}

Facts rows carry the concept, unit, value, period and the accession that reported it — so a number is always traceable to a filing.

Why use an Actor for this

• Polite by default: the Actor sends a declared user agent with contact info, as the SEC requires.
• Joins the tedious bits: ticker → CIK lookup, pagination, concept filtering, unit filtering.
• Error rows, not failures: an unknown ticker becomes an ok:false row with a hint instead of killing the run.

Try it

SEC EDGAR API: Filings & XBRL Financials — no API key.