A tool to read through filings on the EDGAR site from the SEC
Project description
edgar_tool
Features
- 🔍 Company Lookup — Convert stock tickers to SEC CIK numbers
- 📑 Filing Retrieval — Fetch recent filings for any public company
- 🧩 Automatic Section Parsing — Extract specific sections (Risk Factors, MD&A, etc.)
- 🌐 Cross-Company Search — Find filings across all companies by date
- 🤖 LLM-Friendly — Clean markdown output, structured returns, designed for AI agents
- ⚡ Smart Caching — Built-in TTL caches to respect SEC rate limits
Developer Guide
If you are new to using nbdev here are some useful pointers to get you
started.
Install edgar_tool in Development mode
# make sure edgar_tool package is installed in development mode
$ pip install -e .
# make changes under nbs/ directory
# ...
# compile to have changes apply to edgar_tool
$ nbdev_prepare
Usage
Installation
pip install edgar_tool
Or install from GitHub for the latest version:
pip install git+https://github.com/problemsolversguild/edgar_tool.git
Documentation
Documentation can be found hosted on this GitHub repository’s pages. Additionally you can find package manager specific guidelines on conda and pypi respectively.
Quick Start
First, set up your SEC User-Agent (required by SEC):
export SEC_USER_AGENT="YourName your@email.com"
from edgar_tool.filings import get_filing, get_recent_filings
# Get Apple's latest 10-K with automatic section parsing
filing = get_filing("AAPL", filing_type="10-K")
print(filing["summary"])
10-K Filed: 2025-10-31 | Report Date: 2025-09-27
Ticker: AAPL | CIK: 320193
Items found: 23
Part I:
• Item 1: Business
• Item 1A: Risk Factors
• Item 1B: Unresolved Staff Comments
• Item 1C: Cybersecurity
• Item 2: Properties
• Item 3: Legal Proceedings
• Item 4: Mine Safety Disclosures
Part II:
• Item 5: Market for Registrant's Common Equity
• Item 6: [Reserved]
• Item 7: Management's Discussion and Analysis (MD&A)
• Item 7A: Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
• Item 8: Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
• Item 9: Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants
• Item 9A: Controls and Procedures
• Item 9B: Other Information
• Item 9C: Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions
Part III:
• Item 10: Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
• Item 11: Executive Compensation
• Item 12: Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners
• Item 13: Certain Relationships and Related Transactions
• Item 14: Principal Accountant Fees and Services
Part IV:
• Item 15: Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
• Item 16: Form 10-K Summary
# Extract a specific section (e.g., Risk Factors)
filing = get_filing("AAPL", filing_type="10-K", section="1A")
print(f"Risk Factors: {len(filing['section']['content'])} characters")
Risk Factors: 68281 characters
# Get a list of recent 8-K filings
filings = get_recent_filings("MSFT", filing_type="8-K", count=5)
for f in filings:
print(f"{f['filingDate']}: {f['form']} - {f['primaryDocDescription']} - {f['items']}")
2025-12-08: 8-K - 8-K - 5.02,5.07
2025-10-29: 8-K - 8-K - 2.02,7.01,9.01
2025-09-30: 8-K - 8-K - 5.02
2025-07-30: 8-K - 8-K - 2.02,9.01
2025-07-01: 8-K - 8-K - 5.03,9.01
Key Functions
| Function | Description |
|---|---|
get_filing(ticker, filing_type, section) |
Get a parsed filing with automatic section extraction |
get_recent_filings(ticker, filing_type, count) |
List recent filings for a company |
get_latest_filings(filing_type, start_date, end_date) |
Search filings across all companies |
ticker_to_cik(ticker) |
Convert ticker to SEC CIK number |
get_filing_document(url) |
Fetch raw filing content as markdown |
Filing Classes
For more control, use the typed filing classes directly:
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
Filing10K |
Annual reports with 23 standard items across 4 parts |
Filing10Q |
Quarterly reports with financial statements and MD&A |
Filing8K |
Current reports for material events (earnings, exec changes, etc.) |
Each class provides: - Lazy content loading — Content fetched only
when accessed - Automatic section parsing — Structured access to all
standard items - Convenience properties — .business,
.risk_factors, .mda, .financials - Summary generation —
Human-readable filing overviews
Section Reference
10-K Sections
- Item 1: Business description
- Item 1A: Risk Factors ⭐
- Item 7: Management’s Discussion & Analysis (MD&A) ⭐
- Item 8: Financial Statements ⭐
10-Q Sections
- I-1: Financial Statements
- I-2: MD&A ⭐
- II-1A: Risk Factor updates
8-K Items
- 2.02: Results of Operations (earnings) ⭐
- 5.02: Director/Officer changes
- 7.01: Regulation FD Disclosure
- 8.01: Other Events
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