GET /v1/situations - SEC API for AI

curl -X GET \
  -H "x-api-key: $SECAPI_API_KEY" \
  -H "secapi-version: 2026-03-19" \
  "https://api.secapi.ai/v1/situations"

{
  "requestId": "req_2ZK8Q1W9F4M6P7R3"
}

List durable special situations (M&A, tender offers, going-private, spin-offs, activist campaigns, restructuring, bankruptcy, …) with lifecycle status, deal terms, and market snapshot.

Audience: application and coding agent.

Canonical metadata

requestId
traceparent

Example request

curl -X GET \
  -H "x-api-key: $SECAPI_API_KEY" \
  -H "secapi-version: 2026-03-19" \
  "https://api.secapi.ai/v1/situations"

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