
SEC EDGAR Data APIs
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The SEC EDGAR MCP provides conversational access to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) system.
📑 SEC EDGAR MCP
The SEC EDGAR MCP provides conversational access to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) system.
It exposes corporate filings, XBRL financial facts, and aggregated market data — essential for analysts, journalists, fintechs, and investors.
No authentication is required, and data comes directly from data.sec.gov.
🔑 API Features
🏢 Company Submissions
- Endpoint:
/submissions/{cik}.json
- Retrieve metadata and a compact history of filings by company (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, etc.).
- Includes CIK, tickers, entity type, SIC classification, and links to filing documents.
📊 Company Facts (XBRL)
- Endpoint:
/api/xbrl/companyfacts/{cik}.json
- Access all financial concepts reported by a company (assets, liabilities, revenues, etc.).
- Data includes values, units, filing dates, fiscal year, and form type.
📈 Company Concept
- Endpoint:
/api/xbrl/companyconcept/{cik}/{taxonomy}/{tag}.json
- Drill into a single financial concept (e.g.,
us-gaap/Assets
). - Track values across time, grouped by units like USD or shares.
📦 XBRL Frames (Aggregates)
- Endpoint:
/api/xbrl/frames/{taxonomy}/{tag}/{unit}/{period}.json
- Get aggregated values across multiple companies for a period (e.g., total assets of all filers for CY2024).
- Supports taxonomies: us-gaap, ifrs-full, dei, srt.
📌 Example Use Cases
- 📈 Equity Research — Build dashboards with revenue, earnings, and balance sheet trends.
- 📰 Financial Journalism — Enrich stories with up-to-date company filings.
- 🧮 Fintech Apps — Validate company KPIs (Assets, Liabilities, Revenue, EPS).
- 🤖 AI Agents — Ask: “Show me Apple’s total assets from their last 10-K.”
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Normally, integrating SEC APIs means dealing with raw JSON and filing metadata. With XPack, the EDGAR API becomes a ready-to-use MCP service:
- 🚀 Conversational queries via AI agents.
- 💡 Unified with other finance datasets.
- 💸 Monetizable with per-call pricing.
👉 With XPack, you could turn a query like “Get Tesla’s Q3 2024 revenue from SEC filings” into an instant, conversational answer.