14 min
Download SEC Filings at Scale Without Rate Limits
Your SEC filing downloader works on 3 companies, but point it at 500 and EDGAR blocks your IP — so how do you pull filings at scale without fighting the 10 req/sec wall?
SEC Filings
Download, parse, monitor and analyze EDGAR filings at scale — rate limits, sections, exhibits, RAG pipelines, 8-K alerts, IPO terms, 20-F/ADR and cybersecurity disclosures.
10 guides
15 min
Extract Risk Factors and MD&A From a 10-K in Python
You need to pull Risk Factors from a 10-K in Python, and the regex works on Apple — but how do you extract sections across the S&P 500, where a third of the results come back wrong?
13 min
How to Build a RAG Pipeline Over SEC Filings
You built a RAG pipeline over SEC filings and the demo went perfectly — then a real user asked about supply-chain risk and the retriever pulled 3 chunks from the table of contents.
13 min
How to Build an SEC Filing Alert System for 8-K Events
Someone asks you to alert the team when a portfolio company files something that matters — and within a day you realize that 90% of what EDGAR sends you is noise.
12 min
How to Extract IPO Deal Terms From S-1 and F-1 Prospectuses
It is pricing day, you need use of proceeds, dilution and lock-up terms from a 400-page prospectus, and the section you need has no item number to anchor on.
16 min
How to Download SEC Filing Exhibits at Scale
You want to retrieve a particular exhibit from an SEC filing, but how do you do it programmatically, without experiencing IP blocks, and at scale?
10 min
How to Analyze 20-F Filings and ADR Disclosures via API
You run your 10-K section extractor across a global universe and wonder why Taiwan Semiconductor, Alibaba and Shell are missing — then you realize they file 20-F, not 10-K.
7 min
How to Detect Risk Factor and MD&A Changes Across SEC Filings
You want to know what changed in a company’s risk disclosures since last year, but your extractor hands you 30 pages of boilerplate and no clean way to diff them.
10 min
Free SEC Filings API: What Building on Raw EDGAR Actually Costs
Every SEC filing is already free on sec.gov, so you start building on raw EDGAR — and 3 weeks later you are maintaining a rate limiter, a parser, and a retry system you never planned for.
10 min
How to Monitor SEC Cybersecurity Disclosures via API
You set up monitoring for cybersecurity disclosures in the 10-K and think you are covered — until you realize you are missing every incident filing and every foreign issuer.