SEC Events API: List flagged SEC EDGAR events (15-min refresh)
List flagged SEC EDGAR events (15-min refresh) — returns 8-K items, Form 4 insider buys/sells with USD size and buy clusters, Form D raises, each with ticker, flags and salience score. Use instead of polling EDGAR.
Free — no key, no signup, rate-limited to 60 calls per minute per client.
How do you call it?
GET /v1/sec/events — product id
sec_events. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with
product_id=sec_events.
curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/events?ticker=JEF"Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/events?ticker=JEF · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_events
What does the answer look like?
A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_events.
as_of | 2026-08-30T18:00:00Z |
|---|---|
index_started_at | 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z |
count | 1 |
method_id | sec_events_rules_v1 |
refresh_after | 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z |
events
| event_id | accession | cik | ticker | company | form | event_type | occurred_at | flags | score | payload.items | filing_url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| evt_8k_0000096223 | 0000096223-26-000041 | 0000096223 | JEF | JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC. | 8-K | results_of_operations | 2026-08-29T20:11:03Z | results | 0.42 | 2.02 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96223/000009622326000041-index.htm |
The same sample as raw JSON
{
"as_of": "2026-08-30T18:00:00Z",
"index_started_at": "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z",
"count": 1,
"events": [
{
"event_id": "evt_8k_0000096223",
"accession": "0000096223-26-000041",
"cik": "0000096223",
"ticker": "JEF",
"company": "JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC.",
"form": "8-K",
"event_type": "results_of_operations",
"occurred_at": "2026-08-29T20:11:03Z",
"flags": [
"results"
],
"score": 0.42,
"payload": {
"items": [
"2.02"
]
},
"filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96223/000009622326000041-index.htm"
}
],
"method_id": "sec_events_rules_v1",
"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?
You need parsed, flagged corporate events from EDGAR for one company or the whole market, in one call, without maintaining a poller and XML parsers.
What you skip building
- EDGAR polling and rate-limit handling
- Form 4 and Form D XML parsing
- 8-K item mapping
- insider-cluster detection
When should you not use it?
You need full filing text, historical archives before we started indexing, or legal advice.
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