SEC EDGAR API Python Tutorial - Get SEC Filing And Financial Data

No more looking up SEC filings by hand through the SEC web portal. Let's dive in and see how to automate getting SEC filing data and company financial data from the SEC EDGAR API in python.

All the code from this video can be found on my Github.

0:23 open the docs
0:59 import modules
1:05 assign request header
1:28 get CIK numbers, company names, and tickers
2:14 review and parse CIK request response
3:24 get SEC filing metadata
4:58 FACTS
5:05 get company facts data
7:51 request historical financial data

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[XwitterEye]

bro this saved me so much time. was about to start writing this from scratch parsing excel files and wanted to die

[ekhoobm]

Thank you Adam for this information, its very super helpful)

[petterstensland]

Nicely done! Love this video. Keep up the great work.

[miguelcastillo]

I came from another video looking for ways to fix the "403" error.

Thank you!

Your channel is a gold mine.

[alvaromejia]

Thank you Adam for this information, super helpful.

[ekaterinavolkova]

Hey buddy! I love your videos! Thanks a bunch!

[mhxmikb]

Much respect, I appreciate you homie🤘🏻

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[cedomirgligoric]

Yo Adam great video. I don't often comment on videos but I just had to complement this, it's really good. The only thing I wish you did was maybe move through a bit slower, you were kinda rushing everything. But that's not really the most important thing I can decrease the speed when I need to.

Other than that great video. Straight to the point. Very good audio quality. Charismatic dude leading through the subject matter in consistent, linear fashion. Keep it up!

[foslight]

yeah boy. well done. keep udpate new videos!

[MegaChanTV]

Awesome video! Great content and easy to follow along especially for a python newbie like myself. I was wondering how you were able to format the console to return the data in the format the way it did? I'm current using vs code and it doesn't look that way.

[DepthWish]

How's it going Adam. Are you doing any algo trading? It would be interesting to discuss strategies and using python/apis to do it. Great videos btw!

[dhruvjani]

Hi Adam, love your content. It was really helpful. I just had a small question, I am pulling revenues data for a bunch of companies and even though they have reported revenues for a particular year, the api can't seem to find it. Can you please help me with this?

[quasimodo]

This tutorial has me cheesing like it's picture day

[nattyzaddy]

Super helpful, what if you want it as it comes in live, do you just keep polling the API, if for example earnings is coming in at 4:00 pm EST you just keep hitting the api real time?

[jervinfaderanga]

hi adam, this is a nice video. i'm just wondering if there is a way to pull latest filling without cik? just latest fillings by whichever company.

[ltmczrf]

I'm facing challenges in processing financial data from multiple companies at once, as each company uses its own unique tag for the same financial items. For instance, NVIDIA (NVDA) refers to its sales as 'Revenues', while Apple (AAPL) uses This variation in the naming of financial tags across different companies makes it challenging to aggregate their financial data effectively.
Is there a way to gather and use revenue data from various companies, considering that each company might refer to revenue using different terms? Can we retrieve this specific financial information (like revenue) from multiple companies in a unified manner?

[bcollege]

How do I search for specific word or phrase within filing documents for filing types 6-K and 8-K?

Many thanks for your kind support

[ishaangupta]

This was very helpful, great work
I also wanted to pull data for RSU's and PSU's granted but am unable to do it.
Is there a way to pull it using SEC Edgar API

[fmxrdus]

Hi Adam, Amazing work. I wonder whether we can get the narrative parts of the 10-K such as Item 1, Item 1A ... using this API?