8-K Watch API: Watch 8-K filings with a since cursor — SEC EDGAR
Watch 8-K filings with a since cursor — returns only events newer than your cursor, optional item filter, plus the next cursor to store. Use as the cheap poll loop for current-report monitoring.
Free — no key, no signup, rate-limited to 60 calls per minute per client.
How do you call it?
GET /v1/sec/8k/since — product id
sec_8k_since. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with
product_id=sec_8k_since.
curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/8k/since?since=2026-08-30T00%3A00%3A00Z"
Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/8k/since?since=2026-08-30T00%3A00%3A00Z · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_8k_since
What does the answer look like?
A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_8k_since.
as_of | 2026-09-16T21:48:22.717Z |
|---|---|
index_started_at | 2026-08-30T19:10:24.500Z |
since | 2026-09-15T00:00:00 |
count | 3 |
next_cursor | 2026-09-16 |
refresh_after | 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z |
events
| event_id | accession | cik | ticker | company | form | event_type | occurred_at | flags | score | payload.items | payload.labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ev_f699bd66d60f4b2cac55 | 0001104659-26-108320 | 0001282648 | BATL | BATTALION OIL CORP | 8-K | form_8k | 2026-09-16 | delisting_notice | 0.8 | 3.01 | delisting_notice |
| ev_2ff77bb74c784946b9b4 | 0001193125-26-393256 | 0001467760 | ARI | Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. | 8-K | form_8k | 2026-09-16 | other_event | 0.1 | 8.01 | other_event |
| ev_2855b751f71142999f6f | 0001104659-26-108245 | 0002074176 | VNOM | Viper Energy, Inc. | 8-K | form_8k | 2026-09-16 | leadership_change, officer_or_director_change | 0.6 | 5.02 | officer_or_director_change |
The same sample as raw JSON
{
"as_of": "2026-09-16T21:48:22.717Z",
"index_started_at": "2026-08-30T19:10:24.500Z",
"since": "2026-09-15T00:00:00",
"count": 3,
"events": [
{
"event_id": "ev_f699bd66d60f4b2cac55",
"accession": "0001104659-26-108320",
"cik": "0001282648",
"ticker": "BATL",
"company": "BATTALION OIL CORP",
"form": "8-K",
"event_type": "form_8k",
"occurred_at": "2026-09-16",
"flags": [
"delisting_notice"
],
"score": 0.8,
"payload": {
"items": [
"3.01"
],
"labels": [
"delisting_notice"
]
},
"filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1282648/000110465926108320/0001104659-26-108320-index.htm"
},
{
"event_id": "ev_2ff77bb74c784946b9b4",
"accession": "0001193125-26-393256",
"cik": "0001467760",
"ticker": "ARI",
"company": "Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.",
"form": "8-K",
"event_type": "form_8k",
"occurred_at": "2026-09-16",
"flags": [
"other_event"
],
"score": 0.1,
"payload": {
"items": [
"8.01"
],
"labels": [
"other_event"
]
},
"filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1467760/000119312526393256/0001193125-26-393256-index.htm"
},
{
"event_id": "ev_2855b751f71142999f6f",
"accession": "0001104659-26-108245",
"cik": "0002074176",
"ticker": "VNOM",
"company": "Viper Energy, Inc.",
"form": "8-K",
"event_type": "form_8k",
"occurred_at": "2026-09-16",
"flags": [
"leadership_change",
"officer_or_director_change"
],
"score": 0.6,
"payload": {
"items": [
"5.02"
],
"labels": [
"officer_or_director_change"
]
},
"filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2074176/000110465926108245/0001104659-26-108245-index.htm"
}
],
"next_cursor": "2026-09-16",
"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?
Recurring checks; store next_cursor between calls.
What you skip building
- poller infrastructure
- cursor bookkeeping
When should you not use it?
One-off reads — use the feed.
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