SEC Entity Profile API: Get a registrant's full SEC identity — free lookup

Get a registrant's full SEC identity — tickers, exchanges, SIC and description, entity type, state of incorporation, fiscal year end and former names — free, from the submissions API without downloading the megabyte JSON.

Free — no key, no signup, rate-limited to 60 calls per minute per client.

How do you call it?

GET /v1/sec/entity — product id sec_entity_profile. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with product_id=sec_entity_profile.

curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/entity?ticker=NVDA"

Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/entity?ticker=NVDA · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_entity_profile

What does the answer look like?

A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_entity_profile.

{
 "as_of": "2026-08-31T14:00:00Z",
 "cik": "0000320193",
 "name": "Apple Inc.",
 "tickers": [
  "AAPL"
 ],
 "exchanges": [
  "Nasdaq"
 ],
 "sic": "3571",
 "sic_description": "Electronic Computers",
 "entity_type": "operating",
 "state_of_incorporation": "CA",
 "fiscal_year_end": "0927",
 "phone": null,
 "website": null,
 "former_names": [],
 "source": "https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000320193.json",
 "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?

Identity and classification questions about any SEC filer.

What you skip building

• submissions JSON download and slicing

When should you not use it?

Financials — use the XBRL views; filings — use filings list.

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