Tool for the U.S. SEC EDGAR Retrieval and Parsing of Corporate Filings
Retrieves Form 8-K event information
Retrieves business descriptions from annual statements
Retrieves daily master index
Scrape EDGAR filing header information
Retrieves filing information of a firm
Retrieves EDGAR filings from SEC server
Get HTML view of EDGAR filings
Retrieves quarterly master index
Retrieves management's discussion and analysis section
Provides sentiment measures of EDGAR filings
Search EDGAR filings for specific keywords
In the USA, companies file different forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system). The EDGAR database automated system collects all the different necessary filings and makes it publicly available. This package facilitates retrieving, storing, searching, and parsing of all the available filings on the EDGAR server. It downloads filings from SEC server in bulk with a single query. Additionally, it provides various useful functions: extracts 8-K triggering events, extract "Business (Item 1)" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis(Item 7)" sections of annual statements, searches filings for desired keywords, provides sentiment measures, parses filing header information, and provides HTML view of SEC filings.