POST /v1/monitors - SEC API for AI

curl -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SECAPI_BEARER_TOKEN" \
  -H "secapi-version: 2026-03-19" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"Example filings monitor","query":"material agreement"}' \
  "https://api.secapi.ai/v1/monitors"

{
  "requestId": "req_2ZK8Q1W9F4M6P7R3"
}

Create a saved-search monitor with optional webhook or email delivery destination

Audience: signed-in organization administrator.

Creation constraints

A monitor requires a non-empty name and query. Choose one destination model: the legacy webhookUrl field and delivery cannot be sent together. Email delivery and certain event subscriptions can require account activation; preserve Retry-After on a throttled response. startAt defines the initial search boundary for ordinary saved searches. Structured search modes are validated against their own filter schema and may be unavailable. Creating a monitor records configuration; it is not a guarantee of a polling interval, match volume, or successful downstream delivery.

Canonical metadata

requestId
traceparent

Example request

curl -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SECAPI_BEARER_TOKEN" \
  -H "secapi-version: 2026-03-19" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"Example filings monitor","query":"material agreement"}' \
  "https://api.secapi.ai/v1/monitors"

This organization control-plane action requires a signed-in WorkOS browser session. Do not give an API key or an autonomous agent authority to create, change, test, replay, rotate, or delete it.

Example response

{
  "requestId": "req_2ZK8Q1W9F4M6P7R3"
}

Give this prompt to your agent

Failure posture

treat non-2xx responses as contract-aware failures, not free-form errors
preserve requestId and traceparent in logs and downstream reports
if provenance or freshness metadata is present, return it unchanged so trust is not lost in the handoff

GET /v1/monitors GET /v1/monitors/{monitor_id}

​Creation constraints

​Canonical metadata

​Example request

​Example response

​Give this prompt to your agent

​Failure posture

Creation constraints

Canonical metadata

Example request

Example response

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Failure posture