📌 Looking for the full toolkit? This is a focused workflow guide. See the complete SEC Filings Toolkit hub for every actor in this category.
SEC EDGAR is free, but raw — paging through filings by hand doesn’t scale, and the polished terminals that structure it for you cost five figures a year. This page maps the NexGenData actors that turn EDGAR (and a few international equivalents) into clean, structured data for fundamental research, event-driven strategies, and compliance — billed per result, run from your own account.
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The SEC data toolkit
Filings & reports
- SEC EDGAR Search — query company filings and reports across EDGAR.
- SEC EDGAR Scraper — pull 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and proxy statements for any company.
- SEC EDGAR 8-K Tracker / Form 8-K Material Events — real-time material-event filings with item codes.
- Form NT Late-Filing Tracker — an early-warning signal: companies that just announced they’ll file late.
- SEC Litigation Releases — enforcement actions with case metadata and links.
Insider & ownership
- Form 4 Insider Trading — officer/director buys and sells.
- Schedule 13D/G Activist Tracker — 5%+ stakes and activist positions.
- Form D Scraper — private-placement / fundraising filings.
Fund & institutional holdings
- 13F Tracker Pro and 13F Holdings Delta Tracker — institutional holdings and quarter-over-quarter position changes.
- Form N-PORT-P Holdings — mutual-fund portfolio holdings.
- Form N-PX Proxy Votes — how funds voted their proxies.
International insider & ownership (same workflow, other markets)
Workflows analysts actually run
- Smart-money tracking — 13F Delta + Form 4 to see what institutions and insiders are accumulating before it’s consensus.
- Event-driven — 8-K + Form NT for material events and late-filing warnings, the moment they hit EDGAR.
- Activist & special situations — Schedule 13D/G for new 5%+ stakes; Form D for fresh private raises.
- Fund research — N-PORT holdings + N-PX votes to profile a fund’s book and governance stance.
Why not just a terminal?
A Bloomberg or FactSet seat structures all of this — and costs accordingly, bundled with far more than a filings workflow needs. These actors give you the same EDGAR-derived structured data per result, in your own pipeline, for metered cents. For an independent analyst, a small fund, or a fintech wiring filings into a product, that’s the difference between an annual contract and pay-as-you-go.
FAQ
Is this just scraping EDGAR I could do myself? EDGAR is free, but these actors handle the parsing, normalization, full-text search, and per-form structure (item codes, XBRL fields, position deltas) so you get clean JSON instead of raw filings to wrangle.
How current is it? Each actor pulls live from EDGAR at run time; schedule it intraday or daily for near-real-time coverage.
Can I track 13F position changes automatically? Yes — the 13F Holdings Delta Tracker computes quarter-over-quarter adds, trims, and exits.
What does it cost? Pay-per-event on Apify — per filing/result, no subscription or seat fee.
Get started
Start with SEC EDGAR Search or the 13F Holdings Delta Tracker, or see the full NexGenData 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.
See also: New — SEC Reg A/A+ Crowdfunding & Form D Amendments Tracker
See also: New — SEC Form 11-K Employee Stock Plan Tracker
See also: New — SEC Form N-PORT — Mutual Fund Holdings & Risk Data
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