13F Manager Search API: Search institutional 13F managers by name — SEC Form 13F
Search institutional 13F managers by name — returns manager CIK, latest period, position count and total reported value, free. Use to resolve a fund name to the CIK the holdings, changes and top-managers views take.
Free — no key, no signup, rate-limited to 60 calls per minute per client.
How do you call it?
GET /v1/sec/13f/search — product id
sec_13f_manager_search. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with
product_id=sec_13f_manager_search.
curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/13f/search?q=capital"Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/13f/search?q=capital · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_13f_manager_search
What does the answer look like?
A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_13f_manager_search.
as_of | 2026-08-31T17:00:00Z |
|---|---|
periods_held | 2025-12-31, 2025-09-30 |
count | 1 |
refresh_after | 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z |
managers
| cik | manager_name | state | period | holdings_count | value_total_usd | accession |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0001566307 | Ramiah Investment Group | WI | 2025-12-31 | 35 | 14970455 | 0001566307-26-000071 |
The same sample as raw JSON
{
"as_of": "2026-08-31T17:00:00Z",
"periods_held": [
"2025-12-31",
"2025-09-30"
],
"count": 1,
"managers": [
{
"cik": "0001566307",
"manager_name": "Ramiah Investment Group",
"state": "WI",
"period": "2025-12-31",
"holdings_count": 35,
"value_total_usd": 14970455,
"accession": "0001566307-26-000071"
}
],
"refresh_after": "2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z"
}How fresh is it, and where does the data come from?
The fastest source behind this answer can change every 15 minutes, so every response carries a refresh_after timestamp — right now it would be 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z. Schedule the next call on that value rather than on a guess.
- SEC EDGAR (US federal public domain) — upstream:
https://efts.sec.gov
Method version 0.1.0 ·
serving cache 1 day ·
every response carries a result_id you can resolve at
/v1/provenance.
When should you use it?
First call before any 13F holdings question.
What you skip building
- full-text EDGAR search for managers
- manual CIK hunting
When should you not use it?
Operating companies — use SEC CIK lookup; 13F CIKs are managers.
Where else can you find this?
- Catalog entry (JSON, free)
- OpenAPI schema — input and output types, prices, the 402 flow
- llms.txt — every product in one plain-text document