Filing Documents API: List every document in one SEC filing — SEC EDGAR
List every document in one SEC filing — name, type, size and direct URL per document, from the accession number. Use to fetch exactly the exhibit or XML you need instead of scraping the index page.
Free — no key, no signup, rate-limited to 60 calls per minute per client.
How do you call it?
GET /v1/sec/filing/documents — product id
sec_filing_documents. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with
product_id=sec_filing_documents.
curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/filing/documents?cik=0001045810&accession=0001045810-26-000021"
Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/filing/documents?cik=0001045810&accession=0001045810-26-000021 · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_filing_documents
What does the answer look like?
A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_filing_documents.
as_of | 2026-08-31T14:00:00Z |
|---|---|
cik | 0001045810 |
accession | 0001045810-26-000021 |
count | 1 |
refresh_after | 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z |
documents
| name | type | size | url |
|---|---|---|---|
| nvda-20260125.htm | text.gif | 1024 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581026000021/nvda-20260125.htm |
The same sample as raw JSON
{
"as_of": "2026-08-31T14:00:00Z",
"cik": "0001045810",
"accession": "0001045810-26-000021",
"count": 1,
"documents": [
{
"name": "nvda-20260125.htm",
"type": "text.gif",
"size": 1024,
"url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581026000021/nvda-20260125.htm"
}
],
"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 30 days ·
every response carries a result_id you can resolve at
/v1/provenance.
When should you use it?
You have an accession and need its documents.
What you skip building
- index-page scraping
- URL construction
When should you not use it?
Finding filings — use list/search views first.
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