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sec-edgar

SEC EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's online database where public companies file mandatory disclosures and other corporate filings.

sec-edgar publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Company Facts API, Full-Text Search API, Submissions API, and 1 more.

The sec-edgar catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

sec-edgar’s developer surface includes developer portal, documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

35.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
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5 APIs

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0
Composite quality — 35.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Access Clarity 5.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13
Contract Governance 1.2 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 6 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5
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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

SEC EDGAR Company Filings API

The SEC EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) system provides REST APIs for accessing company filings, XBRL financial data, and full-text search across SEC ...

sec-edgar Company Facts API

Aggregated company financial facts

sec-edgar Full-Text Search API

Full-text search across all EDGAR filings

sec-edgar Submissions API

Company filing submission history

sec-edgar XBRL API

Structured XBRL financial data

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sec Edgar Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Sec Edgar Context

29 classes · 6 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

sec-edgar API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

SEC EDGAR Company

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SEC EDGAR Filing

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Sec Edgar Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Sec Edgar Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: sec-edgar
specificationVersion: '0.23'
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  label: Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/sec-edgar.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sec-edgar/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
apis:
- aid: sec-edgar:sec-edgar-company-filings-api
  name: SEC EDGAR Company Filings API
  tags:
  - Filings
  - Finance
  - Regulatory
  - SEC
  - XBRL
  image: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sec-edgar/refs/heads/main/image.png
  humanURL: https://www.sec.gov/developer
  baseURL: https://efts.sec.gov
  properties:
  - url: https://www.sec.gov/developer
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://www.sec.gov/developer
    type: Reference
  description: The SEC EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) system provides REST APIs for accessing
    company filings, XBRL financial data, and full-text search across SEC submissions. APIs deliver 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, and other
    filing data in JSON, XML, and XBRL formats.
- aid: sec-edgar:sec-edgar-company-facts-api
  name: sec-edgar Company Facts API
  description: Aggregated company financial facts
  humanURL: https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index
  baseURL: https://efts.sec.gov
  tags:
  - Company Facts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sec-edgar-company-facts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.sec.gov/submissions/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.sec.gov/developer
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/
- aid: sec-edgar:sec-edgar-full-text-search-api
  name: sec-edgar Full-Text Search API
  description: Full-text search across all EDGAR filings
  humanURL: https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index
  baseURL: https://efts.sec.gov
  tags:
  - Full-Text Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sec-edgar-full-text-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.sec.gov/submissions/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.sec.gov/developer
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/
- aid: sec-edgar:sec-edgar-submissions-api
  name: sec-edgar Submissions API
  description: Company filing submission history
  humanURL: https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index
  baseURL: https://efts.sec.gov
  tags:
  - Submissions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sec-edgar-submissions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.sec.gov/submissions/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.sec.gov/developer
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/
- aid: sec-edgar:sec-edgar-xbrl-api
  name: sec-edgar XBRL API
  description: Structured XBRL financial data
  humanURL: https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index
  baseURL: https://efts.sec.gov
  tags:
  - XBRL
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sec-edgar-xbrl-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.sec.gov/submissions/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.sec.gov/developer
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/sec-edgar-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sec-edgar-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/sec-edgar
- url: https://www.sec.gov/developer
  type: Portal
- url: https://www.sec.gov/developer
  type: Documentation
- url: https://www.sec.gov/developer
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://www.sec.gov/privacy-policy
  type: PrivacyPolicy
- url: https://www.sec.gov/
  type: Website
- url: json-schema/sec-edgar-filing-schema.json
  type: JSONSchema
- url: json-schema/sec-edgar-company-schema.json
  type: JSONSchema
- url: json-ld/sec-edgar-context.jsonld
  type: JSONLDContext
- url: https://www.sec.gov/news/pressreleases.rss
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- name: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
modified: '2026-05-19'
description: SEC EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's
  online database where public companies file mandatory disclosures and other corporate filings.

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