{
  "page": "https://wealthtech.dev/products/sec-edgar",
  "title": "SEC EDGAR APIs API: access, auth, sandbox and MCP (checked Oct 2026)",
  "description": "SEC EDGAR's data.sec.gov offers free RESTful JSON APIs for filing history by company and XBRL financial-statement data, with no API key. Automated requests must declare a User-Agent and stay under 10 requests per second.",
  "updated": "2026-10-17",
  "data": {
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    "url": "https://wealthtech.dev/products/sec-edgar",
    "title": "SEC EDGAR APIs API: access, auth, sandbox and MCP (checked Oct 2026)",
    "lastChecked": "2026-10-17",
    "id": "sec-edgar",
    "name": "SEC EDGAR APIs",
    "vendor": "U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission",
    "website": "https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces",
    "category": "regulatory-data",
    "tier": "core",
    "company": "sec",
    "listed": true,
    "access": {
      "value": "open",
      "state": "verified",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "source": "regulator",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces",
      "evidence": "These APIs do not require any authentication or API keys to access.",
      "capture": "evidence/sec-edgar/www-sec-gov-search-filings-edgar-application-programming-interfaces.txt",
      "note": null
    },
    "docsUrl": {
      "value": "https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces",
      "state": "verified",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "source": "regulator",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces",
      "evidence": "\"data.sec.gov\" was created to host RESTful data APIs delivering JSON-formatted data to external customers and to web pages on SEC.gov.",
      "capture": "evidence/sec-edgar/www-sec-gov-search-filings-edgar-application-programming-interfaces.txt",
      "note": null
    },
    "style": {
      "value": [
        "rest"
      ],
      "state": "verified",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "source": "regulator",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces",
      "evidence": "RESTful data APIs delivering JSON-formatted data",
      "capture": "evidence/sec-edgar/www-sec-gov-search-filings-edgar-application-programming-interfaces.txt",
      "note": "Also nightly bulk ZIP files of the JSON structures."
    },
    "auth": {
      "value": [
        "none"
      ],
      "state": "verified",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "source": "regulator",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces",
      "evidence": "These APIs do not require any authentication or API keys to access.",
      "capture": "evidence/sec-edgar/www-sec-gov-search-filings-edgar-application-programming-interfaces.txt",
      "note": "Automated requests must declare a User-Agent in request headers (Accessing EDGAR Data page)."
    },
    "howToGetAccess": {
      "value": "No sign-up. Send requests to data.sec.gov and declare your user agent in the request headers.",
      "state": "verified",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "source": "regulator",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-search-assistance/accessing-edgar-data",
      "evidence": "Please declare your user agent in request headers:",
      "capture": "evidence/sec-edgar/www-sec-gov-search-filings-edgar-search-assistance-accessing-edgar-data.txt",
      "note": null
    },
    "sandbox": {
      "value": "unknown",
      "state": "unknown",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "note": "No sandbox or test environment mentioned. Pages read: sec.gov EDGAR Application Programming Interfaces and Accessing EDGAR Data."
    },
    "rateLimits": {
      "value": "Current max request rate: 10 requests/second.",
      "state": "verified",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "source": "regulator",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-search-assistance/accessing-edgar-data",
      "evidence": "Current max request rate: 10 requests/second.",
      "capture": "evidence/sec-edgar/www-sec-gov-search-filings-edgar-search-assistance-accessing-edgar-data.txt",
      "note": "SEC reserves the right to limit request rates."
    },
    "webhooks": {
      "value": null,
      "state": "unknown",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "note": "No webhooks or push notifications mentioned. Pages read: sec.gov EDGAR Application Programming Interfaces and Accessing EDGAR Data."
    },
    "sdks": {
      "value": [],
      "state": "unknown",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "note": "No official SDKs mentioned. Pages read: sec.gov EDGAR Application Programming Interfaces and Accessing EDGAR Data."
    },
    "openapi": {
      "value": "none",
      "state": "unknown",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "note": "No OpenAPI spec linked on the pages read. Pages read: sec.gov EDGAR Application Programming Interfaces and Accessing EDGAR Data."
    },
    "partnerProgram": {
      "value": null,
      "state": "unknown",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "note": "Not applicable: no partner program mentioned. Pages read: sec.gov EDGAR Application Programming Interfaces and Accessing EDGAR Data."
    },
    "publicIntegrationList": {
      "value": null,
      "state": "unknown",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "note": "No list of integrations mentioned. Pages read: sec.gov EDGAR Application Programming Interfaces and Accessing EDGAR Data."
    },
    "connectionMechanisms": {
      "value": [
        "native-api",
        "file"
      ],
      "state": "verified",
      "checked": "2026-10-17",
      "source": "regulator",
      "url": "https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces",
      "evidence": "In addition, a bulk ZIP file is available to download all the JSON structures for an API.",
      "capture": "evidence/sec-edgar/www-sec-gov-search-filings-edgar-application-programming-interfaces.txt",
      "note": null
    },
    "mcp": [],
    "whatDocsDontSay": [
      "The page says the APIs currently include submissions history by filer and XBRL data from financial statements; the page does not mention Form ADV adviser data.",
      "data.sec.gov does not support CORS, so browser JavaScript cannot call it directly.",
      "The EDGAR APIs page does not state the User-Agent requirement itself; it is on the Accessing EDGAR Data page."
    ],
    "changelog": [],
    "summary": "SEC EDGAR's data.sec.gov offers free RESTful JSON APIs for filing history by company and XBRL financial-statement data, with no API key. Automated requests must declare a User-Agent and stay under 10 requests per second.",
    "license": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "wealthtech.dev",
    "publisher": "wealthtech.dev"
  }
}