AnswerPool

Form Trend API: Get monthly EDGAR-wide volume for any form since 2021 — SEC EDGAR

Get monthly EDGAR-wide volume for any form since 2021 — S-1 as an IPO-pipeline proxy, Form D as private-capital activity, 10-K seasonality — one series, coverage stated. Use instead of counting filings yourself month by month.

$0.02 per call — pay with prepaid card credits (Authorization: Bearer ck_live_…, packs from $1) or with USDC over x402: call it, get 402 with the price, retry signed. Failed calls are never charged.

How do you call it?

GET /v1/sec/trends/form — product id sec_form_trend. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with product_id=sec_form_trend.

curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/trends/form?form=S-1"

# with a prepaid credit key
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_..." "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/trends/form?form=S-1"

Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/trends/form?form=S-1 · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_form_trend

What does the answer look like?

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

as_of2026-08-31T16:30:00Z
index_from2021-07-01
index_to2026-08-28
formS-1
total119
refresh_after2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z

points

monthcount
2026-0761
2026-0858
The same sample as raw JSON
{
 "as_of": "2026-08-31T16:30:00Z",
 "index_from": "2021-07-01",
 "index_to": "2026-08-28",
 "form": "S-1",
 "points": [
  {
   "month": "2026-07",
   "count": 61
  },
  {
   "month": "2026-08",
   "count": 58
  }
 ],
 "total": 119,
 "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.

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?

Market-level cycle and seasonality questions by form.

What you skip building

When should you not use it?

Individual filings or per-filer series.

Where else can you find this?