SEC EDGAR: what its own pages say about the data
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Free public source.
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The record
- What it covers
- 'Currently included in the APIs are the submissions history by filer and the XBRL data from financial statements (forms 10-Q, 10-K,8-K, 20-F, 40-F, 6-K, and their variants).'sec.govread
- History depth
- 'EDGAR started in 1994/1995.'sec.govread
- Delivery
- 'data.sec.gov was created to host RESTful data APIs delivering JSON-formatted data'. 'The JSON structures are updated throughout the day, in real time, as submissions are disseminated.' A bulk ZIP file is also offered.sec.govread
- Free tier and its limits
- 'Anyone can access and download this information for free'. 'Current max request rate: 10 requests/second.' 'Please declare your user agent in request headers'. 'The SEC does not allow botnets or automated tools to crawl the site.' The API page adds: 'These APIs do not require any authentication or API keys to access.'sec.govread
- Pricing, as worded
- No charge: 'Anyone can access and download this information for free'.sec.govread
- Official Python library
- Not stated on the pages openedNo official Python library is named on the pages opened.
The licence position
What the pages opened say about passing the data on and about training a model on it. Where they say nothing, that is recorded as not stated: silence is neither permission nor prohibition.
- Redistribution terms
- 'Information presented on sec.gov is considered public information and may be copied or further distributed by users of the web site without the SEC's permission. Please consider appropriate citation to the SEC as the source.'sec.govread
- Training machine learning or AI models
- Not stated on the pages openedNot stated on the pages opened, which contain no clause on machine learning, AI or model training. Silence is neither permission nor prohibition.
Pages opened and not opened
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How to cite this
SEC EDGAR: what its own pages say about the data. Broker API Hub, https://openbrokerapi.com/data-sources/sec-edgar, newest check .
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