Insider Transactions API: Get parsed Form 4/5 transaction lines for one issuer — SEC Form 4
Get parsed Form 4/5 transaction lines for one issuer — returns date, code, shares, price, USD value, security, post-holdings, owner role and Rule 10b5-1 flag, derivatives included. Use instead of fetching and parsing ownershipDocument XML per filing.
Free — no key, no signup, rate-limited to 60 calls per minute per client.
How do you call it?
GET /v1/sec/insider/transactions — product id
sec_insider_transactions. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with
product_id=sec_insider_transactions.
curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/insider/transactions?ticker=JEF"Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/insider/transactions?ticker=JEF · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_insider_transactions
What does the answer look like?
A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_insider_transactions.
as_of | 2026-08-31T14:00:00Z |
|---|---|
index_started_at | 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z |
since | 2026-08-01T00:00:00 |
count | 1 |
refresh_after | 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z |
transactions
| accession | filed_at | cik | ticker | company | owner_cik | owner_name | is_officer | is_director | is_ten_percent_owner | officer_title | rule_10b5_1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0001214659-26-011100 | 2026-08-28T21:53:58 | 0000096223 | JEF | JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC. | 0001211677 | HANDLER RICHARD B | true | true | false | CEO | false |
The same sample as raw JSON
{
"as_of": "2026-08-31T14:00:00Z",
"index_started_at": "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z",
"since": "2026-08-01T00:00:00",
"count": 1,
"transactions": [
{
"accession": "0001214659-26-011100",
"filed_at": "2026-08-28T21:53:58",
"cik": "0000096223",
"ticker": "JEF",
"company": "JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC.",
"owner_cik": "0001211677",
"owner_name": "HANDLER RICHARD B",
"is_officer": true,
"is_director": true,
"is_ten_percent_owner": false,
"officer_title": "CEO",
"rule_10b5_1": false,
"derivative": false,
"date": "2026-08-28",
"code": "P",
"acquired_disposed": "A",
"shares": 30000,
"price": 50.0,
"value_usd": 1500000.0,
"security": "Common Stock",
"post_shares": 100000,
"filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96223/000121465926011100-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?
You need actual transaction lines (not summaries) for one issuer over a window.
What you skip building
- EDGAR Atom polling
- ownershipDocument XML parsing
- derivative-table handling
- USD math
When should you not use it?
You need market-wide filtering — use the insider screen; or pre-index history beyond our window.
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