SEC API XBRL API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: SEC API (sec-api.io) REST Extractor XBRL API
  description: 'REST surface of SEC API (sec-api.io), a commercial developer platform that turns the U.S. SEC EDGAR system into fast, queryable APIs. Covers 18+ million filings back to 1993 across 400+ form types. This document models the core REST endpoints - Filing Query, Full-Text Search, XBRL-to-JSON, Extractor, Insider Trading (Form 3/4/5), and Form 13F institutional holdings. The real-time Filing Stream API is a WebSocket surface and is modeled separately in asyncapi/sec-api-asyncapi.yml.

    Authentication is a single API token, obtained from your sec-api.io account. Pass it either as an `Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY` header or as a `?token=YOUR_API_KEY` query parameter. Endpoints, request shapes, and parameters were grounded against the live sec-api.io documentation on 2026-07-11.'
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: SEC API
    url: https://sec-api.io
  license:
    name: API documentation - SEC API Terms of Service
    url: https://sec-api.io/terms-of-service
servers:
- url: https://api.sec-api.io
  description: SEC API REST base
security:
- apiKeyHeader: []
- apiKeyQuery: []
tags:
- name: XBRL
  description: Convert XBRL financial data in filings to standardized JSON.
paths:
  /xbrl-to-json:
    get:
      operationId: xbrlToJson
      tags:
      - XBRL
      summary: Convert filing XBRL to JSON
      description: Parse the XBRL financial data embedded in a filing into standardized JSON (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, cover page, and custom items). Supply exactly one of htm-url, xbrl-url, or accession-no.
      parameters:
      - name: htm-url
        in: query
        required: false
        description: URL of the filing's primary document, ending in .htm or .html.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: xbrl-url
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Direct URL of the filing's XBRL instance file, ending in .xml.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: accession-no
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Filing accession number, e.g. 0001564590-21-004599.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: XBRL financial data as JSON, organized by statement.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                additionalProperties: true
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
components:
  responses:
    RateLimited:
      description: Rate limit exceeded for your plan.
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid API token.
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: 'API key passed directly in the Authorization header (no `Bearer` prefix), e.g. `Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY`.'
    apiKeyQuery:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: token
      description: API key passed as the `token` query parameter.