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Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.secapi.ai/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

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GET /v1/sections/search

Search filing sections and snippets with filing-scoped filters and cursor pagination
Audience: application and coding agent.

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Citation fields (OMNI-3083)

Every result row carries seven additive top-level fields:
FieldDescription
accessionSEC accession number for the source filing
section_keyCanonical section identifier (e.g. item_1a)
char_start / char_endHalf-open offsets into the section markdown text (section_snippets.content_md) — section-text-relative, stable across reparses
highlighted_snippet±150 char window with query terms wrapped in **…**, sentence-boundary truncated, ≤320 chars
source_urlPublic SEC.gov filing URL
tickerIssuer ticker, when known
When the validator can’t produce a span (no section text, no query-term match, or offsets out of bounds), char_start/char_end/highlighted_snippet drop to null and _citation_degraded records the reason. Identity fields (accession, section_key, source_url, ticker) are always populated when known. See api conventions → citation + char-range spans for the full contract.

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Agent mode

Pass ?view=agent to receive the compact agent shape: key + snippet + lifted accessionNumber / startOffset / endOffset from provenance/trace, plus the OMNI-3083 citation envelope (accession, section_key, char_start, char_end, highlighted_snippet, source_url, ticker). Content-md and metadata envelopes are dropped. See api conventions → response formats for the full ?view= contract.

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Canonical metadata

  • requestId
  • traceparent
  • provenance
  • freshness
  • materialization

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Example request

curl -X GET \
  -H "x-api-key: $OMNI_DATASTREAM_API_KEY" \
  -H "omni-version: 2026-03-19" \
  "https://api.secapi.ai/v1/sections/search"

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Example response

{
  "requestId": "req_example_123",
  "traceparent": "00-4bf92f3577b34da6a3ce929d0e0e4736-00f067aa0ba902b7-01",
  "provenance": {
    "source": "sec",
    "accessionNumber": "0000320193-25-000079",
    "filingUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019325000079/aapl-20250927_htm.xml",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-03-17T00:00:00.000Z",
    "parserVersion": "2026-03-13.5",
    "rawSourceKey": "0000320193-25-000079"
  },
  "freshness": {
    "status": "fresh",
    "asOf": "2026-03-17T00:00:00.000Z",
    "sourcePublishedAt": "2025-10-31T00:00:00.000Z",
    "lagMs": 900000
  },
  "materialization": {
    "parserVersion": "2026-03-13.5",
    "materializationVersion": "datastream-3.0"
  }
}

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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