sec-edgar-downloader¶

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sec-edgar-downloader is a Python package for downloading company filings from the SEC EDGAR database. Searches can be conducted either by stock ticker or Central Index Key (CIK). You can use the SEC CIK lookup tool if you cannot find an appropriate ticker.

Quick Start¶

Installation¶

Install and update this package using pip:

$ pip install -U sec-edgar-downloader

Basic Usage¶

from sec_edgar_downloader import Downloader

# Initialize a downloader instance. Download filings to the current
# working directory. Must declare company name and email address
# to form a user-agent string that complies with the SEC Edgar's
# programmatic downloading fair access policy.
# More info: https://www.sec.gov/os/webmaster-faq#code-support
# Company name and email are used to form a user-agent of the form:
# User-Agent: <Company Name> <Email Address>
dl = Downloader("MyCompanyName", "my.email@domain.com")

# Get all 8-K filings for Apple (ticker: AAPL)
dl.get("8-K", "AAPL")

# Get all 8-K filings for Apple, including filing amends (8-K/A)
dl.get("8-K", "AAPL", include_amends=True)

# Get all 8-K filings for Apple after January 1, 2017 and before March 25, 2017
# Note: after and before strings must be in the form "YYYY-MM-DD"
dl.get("8-K", "AAPL", after="2017-01-01", before="2017-03-25")

# Get the five most recent 8-K filings for Apple
dl.get("8-K", "AAPL", limit=5)

# Get all 10-K filings for Microsoft
dl.get("10-K", "MSFT")

# Get the latest 10-K filing for Microsoft
dl.get("10-K", "MSFT", limit=1)

# Get all 10-Q filings for Visa
dl.get("10-Q", "V")

# Get all 13F-NT filings for the Vanguard Group
dl.get("13F-NT", "0000102909")

# Get all 13F-HR filings for the Vanguard Group
dl.get("13F-HR", "0000102909")

# Get all SC 13G filings for Apple
dl.get("SC 13G", "AAPL")

# Get all SD filings for Apple
dl.get("SD", "AAPL")

Advanced Usage¶

from sec_edgar_downloader import Downloader

# Download filings to the current working directory
dl = Downloader("MyCompanyName", "my.email@domain.com", "/path/to/save/location")

# Get all 10-K filings for Microsoft without the filing details
dl.get("10-K", "MSFT", download_details=False)

# Get the latest supported filings, if available, for Apple
for filing_type in dl.supported_filings:
    dl.get(filing_type, "AAPL", limit=1)

# Get the latest supported filings, if available, for a
# specified list of tickers and CIKs
equity_ids = ["AAPL", "MSFT", "0000102909", "V", "FB"]
for equity_id in equity_ids:
    for filing_type in dl.supported_filings:
        dl.get(filing_type, equity_id, limit=1)

Supported SEC Filing Types¶

This package supports downloading all SEC filing types (6-K, 8-K, 10-K, DEF 14A, S-1, and many others). You can learn more about the different SEC filing types here). Below is an exhaustive list of all filings types that can be downloaded by this package:

  • 1

  • 1-A

  • 1-A POS

  • 1-A-W

  • 1-E

  • 1-E AD

  • 1-K

  • 1-SA

  • 1-U

  • 1-Z

  • 1-Z-W

  • 10-12B

  • 10-12G

  • 10-D

  • 10-K

  • 10-KT

  • 10-Q

  • 10-QT

  • 11-K

  • 11-KT

  • 13F-HR

  • 13F-NT

  • 13FCONP

  • 144

  • 15-12B

  • 15-12G

  • 15-15D

  • 15F-12B

  • 15F-12G

  • 15F-15D

  • 18-12B

  • 18-K

  • 19B-4E

  • 2-A

  • 2-AF

  • 2-E

  • 20-F

  • 20FR12B

  • 20FR12G

  • 24F-2NT

  • 25

  • 25-NSE

  • 253G1

  • 253G2

  • 253G3

  • 253G4

  • 3

  • 305B2

  • 34-12H

  • 4

  • 40-17F1

  • 40-17F2

  • 40-17G

  • 40-17GCS

  • 40-202A

  • 40-203A

  • 40-206A

  • 40-24B2

  • 40-33

  • 40-6B

  • 40-8B25

  • 40-8F-2

  • 40-APP

  • 40-F

  • 40-OIP

  • 40FR12B

  • 40FR12G

  • 424A

  • 424B1

  • 424B2

  • 424B3

  • 424B4

  • 424B5

  • 424B7

  • 424B8

  • 424H

  • 425

  • 485APOS

  • 485BPOS

  • 485BXT

  • 486APOS

  • 486BPOS

  • 486BXT

  • 487

  • 497

  • 497AD

  • 497H2

  • 497J

  • 497K

  • 5

  • 6-K

  • 6B NTC

  • 6B ORDR

  • 8-A12B

  • 8-A12G

  • 8-K

  • 8-K12B

  • 8-K12G3

  • 8-K15D5

  • 8-M

  • 8F-2 NTC

  • 8F-2 ORDR

  • 9-M

  • ABS-15G

  • ABS-EE

  • ADN-MTL

  • ADV-E

  • ADV-H-C

  • ADV-H-T

  • ADV-NR

  • ANNLRPT

  • APP NTC

  • APP ORDR

  • APP WD

  • APP WDG

  • ARS

  • ATS-N

  • ATS-N-C

  • ATS-N/UA

  • AW

  • AW WD

  • C

  • C-AR

  • C-AR-W

  • C-TR

  • C-TR-W

  • C-U

  • C-U-W

  • C-W

  • CB

  • CERT

  • CERTARCA

  • CERTBATS

  • CERTCBO

  • CERTNAS

  • CERTNYS

  • CERTPAC

  • CFPORTAL

  • CFPORTAL-W

  • CORRESP

  • CT ORDER

  • D

  • DEF 14A

  • DEF 14C

  • DEFA14A

  • DEFA14C

  • DEFC14A

  • DEFC14C

  • DEFM14A

  • DEFM14C

  • DEFN14A

  • DEFR14A

  • DEFR14C

  • DEL AM

  • DFAN14A

  • DFRN14A

  • DOS

  • DOSLTR

  • DRS

  • DRSLTR

  • DSTRBRPT

  • EFFECT

  • F-1

  • F-10

  • F-10EF

  • F-10POS

  • F-1MEF

  • F-3

  • F-3ASR

  • F-3D

  • F-3DPOS

  • F-3MEF

  • F-4

  • F-4 POS

  • F-4MEF

  • F-6

  • F-6 POS

  • F-6EF

  • F-7

  • F-7 POS

  • F-8

  • F-8 POS

  • F-80

  • F-80POS

  • F-9

  • F-9 POS

  • F-N

  • F-X

  • FOCUSN

  • FWP

  • G-405

  • G-405N

  • G-FIN

  • G-FINW

  • IRANNOTICE

  • MA

  • MA-A

  • MA-I

  • MA-W

  • MSD

  • MSDCO

  • MSDW

  • N-1

  • N-14

  • N-14 8C

  • N-14MEF

  • N-18F1

  • N-1A

  • N-2

  • N-23C-2

  • N-23C3A

  • N-23C3B

  • N-23C3C

  • N-2MEF

  • N-30B-2

  • N-30D

  • N-4

  • N-5

  • N-54A

  • N-54C

  • N-6

  • N-6F

  • N-8A

  • N-8B-2

  • N-8F

  • N-8F NTC

  • N-8F ORDR

  • N-CEN

  • N-CR

  • N-CSR

  • N-CSRS

  • N-MFP

  • N-MFP1

  • N-MFP2

  • N-PX

  • N-Q

  • NO ACT

  • NPORT-EX

  • NPORT-NP

  • NPORT-P

  • NRSRO-CE

  • NRSRO-UPD

  • NSAR-A

  • NSAR-AT

  • NSAR-B

  • NSAR-BT

  • NSAR-U

  • NT 10-D

  • NT 10-K

  • NT 10-Q

  • NT 11-K

  • NT 20-F

  • NT N-CEN

  • NT N-MFP

  • NT N-MFP1

  • NT N-MFP2

  • NT NPORT-EX

  • NT NPORT-P

  • NT-NCEN

  • NT-NCSR

  • NT-NSAR

  • NTFNCEN

  • NTFNCSR

  • NTFNSAR

  • NTN 10D

  • NTN 10K

  • NTN 10Q

  • NTN 20F

  • OIP NTC

  • OIP ORDR

  • POS 8C

  • POS AM

  • POS AMI

  • POS EX

  • POS462B

  • POS462C

  • POSASR

  • PRE 14A

  • PRE 14C

  • PREC14A

  • PREC14C

  • PREM14A

  • PREM14C

  • PREN14A

  • PRER14A

  • PRER14C

  • PRRN14A

  • PX14A6G

  • PX14A6N

  • QRTLYRPT

  • QUALIF

  • REG-NR

  • REVOKED

  • RW

  • RW WD

  • S-1

  • S-11

  • S-11MEF

  • S-1MEF

  • S-20

  • S-3

  • S-3ASR

  • S-3D

  • S-3DPOS

  • S-3MEF

  • S-4

  • S-4 POS

  • S-4EF

  • S-4MEF

  • S-6

  • S-8

  • S-8 POS

  • S-B

  • S-BMEF

  • SC 13D

  • SC 13E1

  • SC 13E3

  • SC 13G

  • SC 14D9

  • SC 14F1

  • SC 14N

  • SC TO-C

  • SC TO-I

  • SC TO-T

  • SC13E4F

  • SC14D1F

  • SC14D9C

  • SC14D9F

  • SD

  • SDR

  • SE

  • SEC ACTION

  • SEC STAFF ACTION

  • SEC STAFF LETTER

  • SF-1

  • SF-3

  • SL

  • SP 15D2

  • STOP ORDER

  • SUPPL

  • T-3

  • TA-1

  • TA-2

  • TA-W

  • TACO

  • TH

  • TTW

  • UNDER

  • UPLOAD

  • WDL-REQ

  • X-17A-5

Contributing¶

If you encounter a bug or would like to see a new company filing or feature added to sec-edgar-downloader, please file an issue or submit a pull request.

Development¶

In order to validate local code changes before creating a pull request, you can run the following commands:

# Run unit test suite on all locally-installed Python versions
$ tox

# Run unit test suite on a single Python version (e.g. Python 3.11)
$ tox -e py311

# Run end-to-end integration tests
$ tox -e integration

# Lint
$ tox -e lint

# Validate documentation
$ tox -e docs

Release¶

In order to create a new release, complete the following steps:

  1. Outline changes made in the new release in CHANGELOG.md.

  2. Bump the version in _version.py and push change to master branch.

  3. Ensure all unit and integration tests pass locally and in the GitHub Actions testing workflow.

  4. Create and push tags for the latest version specified in _version.py by running make tag.

  5. Once the tag is pushed, a GitHub Actions release workflow will be kicked off that automatically creates the package artifacts and uploads them to PyPI.

  6. Create a new version based off of the published tag on the GitHub repository’s release page.

Documentation¶

For full documentation, please visit sec-edgar-downloader.readthedocs.io.

API Guide¶

Downloader¶

class sec_edgar_downloader._Downloader.Downloader(company_name, email_address, download_folder=None)¶

A Downloader object.

Parameters:
  • company_name (str) – company name to comply with SEC Edgar’s programmatic downloading fair access policy. All programmatic SEC interactions must declare a header comprised of a company name and email address. More info: https://www.sec.gov/os/webmaster-faq#code-support.

  • email_address (str) – email address to comply with SEC Edgar’s programmatic downloading fair access policy. All programmatic SEC interactions must declare a header comprised of a company name and email address. More info: https://www.sec.gov/os/webmaster-faq#code-support.

  • download_folder (Union[str, Path, None]) – relative or absolute path to download location. Defaults to the current working directory.

Usage:

>>> from sec_edgar_downloader import Downloader

# Download to current working directory.
# Must declare company name and email address to comply with SEC Edgar's
# programmatic downloading fair access policy.
# More info: https://www.sec.gov/os/webmaster-faq#code-support
>>> dl = Downloader("MyCompanyName", "my.email@domain.com")

# Download to relative or absolute path
>>> dl = Downloader("MyCompanyName", "my.email@domain.com", "/path/to/save/location")
get(form, ticker_or_cik, *, limit=None, after=None, before=None, include_amends=False, download_details=False)¶

Download filings and save them to disk.

Parameters:
  • form (str) – form type to download (e.g. 8-K, 10-K).

  • ticker_or_cik (str) – ticker or CIK for which to download filings.

  • limit (Optional[int]) – max number of filings to download. Defaults to all available filings.

  • after (Union[str, date, datetime, None]) – date of form YYYY-MM-DD after which to download filings. Date or datetime objects can also be passed. Defaults to 1994-01-01, the earliest date supported by SEC EDGAR.

  • before (Union[str, date, datetime, None]) – date of form YYYY-MM-DD before which to download filings. Date or datetime objects can also be passed. Defaults to today.

  • include_amends (bool) – denotes whether to include filing amends (e.g. 8-K/A). Defaults to False.

  • download_details (bool) – denotes whether to download human-readable and easily parseable filing detail documents (e.g. form 4 XML, 8-K HTML). Defaults to False.

Return type:

int

Returns:

number of filings downloaded.

Usage:

>>> from sec_edgar_downloader import Downloader
>>> dl = Downloader("MyCompanyName", "my.email@domain.com")

# Get all 8-K filings for Apple
>>> dl.get("8-K", "AAPL")

# Get all 8-K filings for Apple, including filing amends (8-K/A)
>>> dl.get("8-K", "AAPL", include_amends=True)

# Get all 8-K filings for Apple after January 1, 2017 and before March 25, 2017
>>> dl.get("8-K", "AAPL", after="2017-01-01", before="2017-03-25")

# Get the five most recent 10-K filings for Apple
>>> dl.get("10-K", "AAPL", limit=5)

# Get all 10-K filings for Apple, excluding the filing detail documents
>>> dl.get("10-K", "AAPL", amount=1, download_details=False)

# Get all 10-Q filings for Visa
>>> dl.get("10-Q", "V")

# Get all 13F-NT filings for the Vanguard Group
>>> dl.get("13F-NT", "0000102909")

# Get all 13F-HR filings for the Vanguard Group
>>> dl.get("13F-HR", "0000102909")

# Get all SC 13G filings for Apple
>>> dl.get("SC 13G", "AAPL")

# Get all SD filings for Apple
>>> dl.get("SD", "AAPL")