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The complete SEC EDGAR filing toolkit — every high-value regulatory event indexed and cross-joined across 12+ filing types. Structured JSON/CSV output at fractions of a cent per record vs $24,000+/yr for Bloomberg’s bundled access.
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SEC EDGAR is the largest public-domain financial dataset in the world — every public company, every fund manager, every activist investor must file regulatory disclosures here. The data drives essentially every event-driven trading strategy, every M&A deal flow analysis, every activist-tracking workflow at hedge funds. But raw EDGAR XML is unworkable. Bloomberg Terminal bundles structured access at $24K+/seat. WhaleWisdom and Quiver focus on 13F at $10-100/seat. The NexGenData SEC actors cover the full filing-type spectrum at pay-per-record pricing — a daily watchlist scan across all forms typically costs under $5.
Coverage map — 12 actors across 6 filing categories
| Category | Form | Actor |
|---|---|---|
| Institutional holdings | Form 13F-HR | SEC 13F Holdings Tracker |
| Institutional holdings — deltas | 13F deltas | 13F Delta Tracker |
| Insider transactions | Form 4 | SEC Form 4 Insider Tracker |
| Insider transactions — full | Form 4 | Form 4 Insider Trading Scraper |
| Insider clustering | Form 4 patterns | Insider Cluster Detector |
| Activist filings | Schedule 13D/13G | Schedule 13D/G Tracker |
| Private placements | Form D | SEC Form D Scraper |
| Material events | Form 8-K | Form 8-K Material Events |
| Earnings estimates | Analyst revisions | Earnings Estimate Revisions |
| Federal rulemaking | Federal Register | Federal Register Rules Scraper |
| Lobbying disclosure | LDA filings | LDA Lobbying Disclosures |
| Campaign finance | FEC filings | FEC Independent Expenditures |
Why this beats Bloomberg, WhaleWisdom, Capital IQ for batch SEC research
| Feature | NexGenData SEC stack | Bloomberg Terminal | WhaleWisdom | Capital IQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost — daily filing scan | $1-3 | $24,000+/yr/seat | $50/mo/seat | $15,000+/yr/seat |
| 13F quarterly full pull | $50-150 once | Included | API on Premium | Included |
| Form 4 insider real-time | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Schedule 13D/G activist filings | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Form D private placements | Yes | Limited | No | Yes |
| Form 8-K material events | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Insider cluster detection | Built-in algorithm | Manual filter | Manual filter | Manual filter |
| 13F delta computation | Built-in | Built-in | Built-in | Built-in |
| API / batch export | Apify — JSON/CSV/Excel | BBG API (enterprise) | API on Premium | Enterprise tier |
| Custom watchlist alerts | Yes — Apify webhooks | Yes | Email alerts | Yes |
Use cases
Event-driven hedge fund desk — activist + insider activity
Set a watchlist of sub-$5B-cap companies in your coverage universe. Schedule the Schedule 13D/G tracker hourly. Cross-reference any 13D filing with Form 4 insider transactions over the prior 30 days from the Insider Cluster Detector. The intersection — activist filing + insider buying cluster — historically generates 6-12 month forward returns above market.
Long/short quant — 13F factor research
Quarter-end: pull the full 13F universe (every filer above $100M AUM). Compute deltas via the 13F Delta Tracker. Build factor portfolios from new positions, large additions, and complete exits. Regress against forward returns. Pay-per-result means a full universe pull costs ~$150 quarterly vs Bloomberg’s bundled access at $24K+/year — but you only get the 13F slice, not the rest of Bloomberg.
M&A research — early deal sourcing
Schedule Form 8-K Item 1.01 (Entry into Material Agreement) and Item 2.01 (Completion of Acquisition or Disposition) hourly. Cross-reference with Form D filings to surface companies raising acquisition financing. Pair with the PR Newswire Releases actor for the public-comms layer of the same deals.
Compliance / regulatory affairs — federal rulemaking
The Federal Register Rules Scraper + LDA Lobbying Disclosures + FEC Independent Expenditures together give you the full influence-and-rulemaking layer of D.C. regulatory activity. Use for proactive compliance: surface proposed rules in your industry 30-60 days before they’re finalized.
Sovereign wealth + family office — long-only holdings tracking
Filter 13F filings to specific manager CIKs (Norges Bank, GIC, Temasek, ADIA, etc.). Track quarterly position deltas across the long-only sovereign cohort. Pair with the Sovereign Wealth Fund Tracker actor for confirmation across non-13F-disclosing entities.
Frequently asked questions
Why scrape SEC EDGAR when it’s free?
EDGAR is free for browsing and individual filings. But for analytical workflows — pulling every 13F across managers above $X AUM, computing quarter-over-quarter deltas, joining Form 4 transactions to 13F clusters, or filtering Form D filings by industry — the raw EDGAR XML and HTML is unworkable. The NexGenData SEC actors handle the structured parsing, deduplication, and cross-filing joins so you can build pipelines on clean JSON/CSV without writing your own parser.
How do these compare to Bloomberg Terminal’s filing access?
Bloomberg Terminal includes EDGAR access ($24,000+/yr/seat), bundled with everything else. WhaleWisdom and Quiver Quantitative offer 13F-focused subscriptions ($10-100/month). The NexGenData SEC actors are pay-per-record (typically fractions of a cent per filing) and output to Apify’s standard JSON/CSV format. Use Bloomberg if you need the bundled terminal; use these if you want raw structured data for custom analysis at a fraction of the cost.
Which SEC filings drive the most advantage?
Academic research consistently identifies four high-value filings: (1) Form 4 insider transactions with clustered filings (3+ insiders buying same direction within 30 days), (2) Schedule 13D activist filings on sub-$5B-cap companies, (3) 13F quarter-over-quarter position deltas (especially new positions and complete exits), and (4) Form 8-K Item 1.01 (entry into material agreement) for M&A activity. The NexGenData actors cover all four with deduplicated structured output.
How fresh is the data?
EDGAR posts filings within hours of receipt. The NexGenData actors process new filings within hours of posting. Latency varies by filing type: Form 4 is filed within 2 business days of insider transaction; Schedule 13D within 10 days of crossing 5%; 13F is quarterly (45 days after quarter end); Form D within 15 days of first sale; Form 8-K within 4 business days of material event.
Can I track specific companies or insiders by watchlist?
Yes — each actor’s input schema accepts a watchlist parameter (ticker symbols, company names, or CIK numbers). Schedule the actor at desired frequency (hourly during market hours, daily for off-market). Apify’s webhook integration delivers alerts to Slack, Discord, or any HTTP endpoint when a matching filing posts.
Do the actors handle XBRL financial filings (10-K, 10-Q)?
Not yet — these actors focus on form-driven event filings (13F, 13D/G, Form 4, Form D, 8-K). For 10-K and 10-Q financial statement extraction, use a dedicated XBRL parser or the Apify rag-web-browser actor configured to crawl EDGAR’s HTML versions. We may add structured 10-K/10-Q actors in a future release.
What’s the typical batch cost?
A daily check across all SEC actors (Form D + Form 4 + 13F + 13D/G + 8-K filings) for the last 24 hours costs roughly $1-3. A full 13F quarter-end pull across every filer costs $50-150 once per quarter. A targeted watchlist of 50 tickers running hourly across Form 4 costs ~$5-15/month. Pay-per-result means you only pay for what you actually pull.
NexGenData publishes 260+ buyer-intent actors covering SEC filings, financial data, lead generation, and competitive intelligence. Browse the full catalog →
Use with n8n
Prefer to automate this in n8n? These tools are available as open-source n8n community nodes — install n8n-nodes-nexgendata and import the SEC late-filing alert and 13F holdings-change templates. See Use NexGenData with n8n or get the package on GitHub.
Latest additions
- SEC Fails-to-Deliver Tracker — Short Squeeze Data
- SEC XBRL Financial Frames — Peer Comparison
- SEC Executive Compensation & Proxy Tracker
- SEC Form 4 Insider Monitor — Transaction Alerts — delta alerts on new insider buys, sells and grants
- SEC 8-K Event Monitor — Material Filing Alerts — delta alerts on new 8-K material events, tagged by item code
- Private Funding Intelligence — a real-time SEC Form D feed of newly funded companies
- SEC Reg A/A+ Crowdfunding & Form D Amendments Tracker
- SEC Form 11-K Employee Stock Plan Tracker
- SEC Form N-PORT — Mutual Fund Holdings & Risk Data
- SEC Form D Tracker — Reg D private placements & exempt offerings
- SEC Event Router — every SEC event for a ticker in one chronological timeline
- SEC Form ADV Investment Adviser Tracker — RIA prospecting data from EDGAR
- SEC Form 144 Insider Pre-Sale Tracker — early read on restricted-stock insider sales
- SEC Filings to Markdown for RAG — EDGAR filings as clean, citation-tagged chunks for your LLM
In-depth buyer guides
- SEC 13F Holdings Data — Hedge Fund Positions API — run the actor in minutes with sample input/output.
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Sample data & downloads
Recently added
- SEC Filings RAG (Markdown) — SEC filings converted to clean markdown for RAG/LLM use.
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