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Explore SEC API products

Compare the marketing API catalog, workflow pages, glossary, and sandbox before choosing the endpoint family for a commercial or agentic workflow.

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Start here

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Pick the domain you care about

Start from the family page that matches your workflow: entities, filings, statements, ownership, market utilities, or platform surfaces.
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Open the exact operation page

Each operation page is titled with the literal REST call, such as GET /v1/entities/resolve.
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Hand it to your agent

Every operation page includes a copyable prompt, example request, example response, metadata expectations, and failure posture.

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Common tasks

Find the latest 10-K

Use GET /v1/filings/latest with ticker=AAPL&form=10-K when you need the current annual report manifest.

Extract Item 1A risk factors

Use GET /v1/filings/latest/sections/{section_key} with section_key=item_1a to fetch the latest 10-K risk-factor text.

Look up XBRL facts by tag

Use GET /v1/facts for concepts such as RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax or Assets.

Set up MCP

Install the hosted MCP server, then inspect the transport contract at POST /mcp.

Debug auth and billing errors

Map 401, 402, 429, and MCP JSON-RPC errors to the fastest next action before retrying.

Inspect prepaid credits

Use GET /v1/billing/credits to see credit balance, auto-top-up settings, lifetime totals, and low-balance status.

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Endpoint families

Advisers

Reference pages for Advisers endpoints.

Agent

Provision an agent’s first organization-scoped API key through a short-lived sponsor-token exchange.

Alerts

Public alert-plan and email-registration endpoints; availability is explicitly feature-gated.

Analytics

Tenant-safe analytical query workflows over supported SEC API history datasets.

Artifacts

Build organization-scoped filing or comparison bundles, then inspect their manifests, exports, downloads, and storage state.

Board

Board composition and director-level governance surfaces derived from SEC proxy disclosures.

Companies

Build issuer research views from SEC-derived statements, ratios, segments, macro exposure, and company snapshots.

Compensation

Compensation and governance-oriented executive pay workflows.

Delivery

Inspect organization-scoped delivery records, export event history, or handle signed email unsubscriptions.

Dilution

Investigate SEC-disclosed dilution signals: offerings, convertibles, warrants, share float, cash, and capital-structure events.

Earnings materials

SEC-furnished earnings materials, coverage state, and transcript-adjacent filing extracts.

Embed

Reference pages for Embed endpoints.

Entities

Resolve and search best-match public-market entities across issuers, managers, insiders, and funds.

Event Types

Reference pages for Event Types endpoints.

Events

Search disclosure-derived M&A, restatement, auditor, officer, voting, IPO, and SEC enforcement events before reviewing the cited filing or release.

Factors

Reference pages for Factors endpoints.

Facts

Reference pages for Facts endpoints.

Filings

Find filing records and move from search results into retrieval, extraction, download, export, or latest-filing views.

Forms

Locate filed capital-formation, insider-sale, and fund-disclosure records without treating filing discovery as transaction completion.

Fund Letters

Reference pages for Fund Letters endpoints.

Funds

Reference pages for Funds endpoints.

Insiders

Insider transaction history and actor-level trading surfaces.

Intelligence

Reference pages for Intelligence endpoints.

Macro

Retrieve country macro indicators, releases, forecasts, regimes, and source-aware coverage for supported markets.

Market utilities

Market calendars, security reference, and reusable market utility endpoints.

Models

Reference pages for Models endpoints.

Monitors

Organization-scoped saved searches, match reads, delivery destinations, and structured-monitor compilation.

News

Reference pages for News endpoints.

Offerings

Find filed registration statements and prospectuses for public-offering research, with filing-date filters and source-aware review guidance.

Ownership

Institutional and beneficial ownership surfaces for managers, holders, and ticker-centric analysis.

Platform

Set up and manage your SEC API organization: authenticate clients, create API keys, inspect limits, and manage billing.

Portfolio

Reference pages for Portfolio endpoints.

Search

Reference pages for Search endpoints.

Sections

Search and extract filing sections, items, and snippets.

Signals

Derived public-market signals such as the SEC API Volatility Score.

Situations

Reference pages for Situations endpoints.

Statements

Retrieve normalized financial statements and segment disclosures with periods, units, and filing provenance.

Stocks

Reference pages for Stocks endpoints.

Strategies

Reference pages for Strategies endpoints.

Stream

Reference pages for Stream endpoints.

Streams

Stream subscription creation and event polling for replay-safe event delivery.

Traces

Trace hydration, filing page anchors, and source-to-derived lineage workflows. Traces cover filing-derived data (segmented revenues, section excerpts), SEC enforcement actions, market price snapshots, and analyst estimates.

Webhooks

Organization webhook endpoints, signed event delivery, recorded attempts, replay, and one-time secret rotation.

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Canonical wire contract

  • OpenAPI JSON: /openapi/sec-api.v1.json
  • Base URL: https://api.secapi.ai
  • API key env var: SECAPI_API_KEY
  • Version header: secapi-version set to the current published version.