EDGAR Text Search API: Search EDGAR filing text for any phrase with form and date filters — SEC EDGAR
Search EDGAR filing text for any phrase with form and date filters — returns matching filings with filer, date, items and URL. The search competitors gate at their top tier or lack entirely; one call, no crawling.
$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/search/fulltext — product id
sec_full_text_search. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with
product_id=sec_full_text_search.
curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/search/fulltext?q=supply+chain+disruption&forms=8-K&start=2026-08-01&end=2026-08-31"
# with a prepaid credit key
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_..." "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/search/fulltext?q=supply+chain+disruption&forms=8-K&start=2026-08-01&end=2026-08-31"
Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/search/fulltext?q=supply+chain+disruption&forms=8-K&start=2026-08-01&end=2026-08-31 · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_full_text_search
What does the answer look like?
A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_full_text_search.
as_of | 2026-08-31T14:00:00Z |
|---|---|
count | 1 |
refresh_after | 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z |
filings
| accession | cik | company | form | filed | items | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0001437749-26-028920 | 0000320193 | APPLE INC | 8-K | 2026-08-29 | 1.03 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000143774926028920-index.htm |
The same sample as raw JSON
{
"as_of": "2026-08-31T14:00:00Z",
"count": 1,
"filings": [
{
"accession": "0001437749-26-028920",
"cik": "0000320193",
"company": "APPLE INC",
"form": "8-K",
"filed": "2026-08-29",
"items": [
"1.03"
],
"url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000143774926028920-index.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 1 day ·
every response carries a result_id you can resolve at
/v1/provenance.
When should you use it?
Content questions across filings.
What you skip building
- EDGAR text crawling and indexing
- EFTS pagination
When should you not use it?
Metadata-only listing — the metadata search is cheaper.
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