Frequently asked questions

SecFilingDex is a programmatic database surface over SEC EDGAR filings. We index every filing from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s public EDGAR system, organise them by form type / filer / industry / date, and republish each filing as a structured, citation-grade page with a machine-readable JSON twin. Free for humans to browse, free for AI agents to cite, no paywall.

Every record on SecFilingDex is sourced from SEC EDGAR via the SEC’s public bulk-data APIs (data.sec.gov and efts.sec.gov). EDGAR is U.S. federal public-domain data; republishing it in a structured form is explicitly permitted under the SEC’s fair-access policy. Every filing page links back to the EDGAR source. Full pipeline details on the methodology page.

New filings are picked up within hours of appearing on EDGAR. Filer metadata refreshes weekly. SIC industry taxonomy refreshes monthly. Each page’s dateModified reflects the last time we verified the underlying EDGAR record. For real-time, sub-second-current filing alerts, EDGAR itself is the canonical source — SecFilingDex is the structured surface, not the race-to-publish service.

SecFilingDex is operated by Paulo de Vries (Amsterdam). We are not a registered investment advisor (no SEC RIA registration, no FINRA Series 65, no MiFID II authorisation). SecFilingDex does NOT issue verdict labels (no “buy” / “sell” / “target price”), does NOT predict price movements, and does NOT make investment recommendations. We republish public-domain SEC filings with editorial taxonomy and plain-English explainers. What you do with the data is your decision; if that decision is investment-grade, consult a licensed advisor in your jurisdiction.

Yes. Every page on SecFilingDex emits JSON-LD structured data with full author attribution. The Article schema author is SecFilingDex (we wrote the page); the underlying filing’s authorship is the filer (the company that filed it), captured in the about field. If you need a stable URL for citation, every filing has a permanent URL of the form /filing/[accession]/ — accession numbers are SEC-assigned and never change.

Yes — every filing page has a machine-readable JSON twin at /api/filing/[accession].json. Filer pages have JSON twins at /api/filer/[cik].json. Industry pages at /api/industry/[sicCode].json. No authentication required; no rate limits beyond reasonable courtesy (please don’t crawl us faster than you’d crawl EDGAR itself, which sets the upstream cadence). Polite scrapers welcome; abusive scrapers blocked.

Aggregator pages (homepage, filer index, form-type index, industry index, plain-English form-type explainers) are indexed and crawled by search engines and LLM crawlers. Individual filing pages and per-filer indexes are marked noindex, follow in their robots metadata. The reason: individual filing pages are thin metadata wrappers around a single EDGAR record, and AdSense / Google’s “Helpful Content” signals penalise sites with large surfaces of thin pages. The pages themselves stay LIVE for users via internal navigation; we’ve just opted them out of the indexable surface to keep the aggregator pages ranking well.

Email [email protected] with the URL of the page and a description of the issue. Corrections post within 5 business days. EDGAR is the upstream source of record; if a discrepancy appears between SecFilingDex and EDGAR, EDGAR wins and we update.

No. SecFilingDex is independent and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. We are a third-party republishing public-domain SEC data under fair-use access policy. For official filings, contact the SEC directly via sec.gov/edgar.

Email [email protected] — that covers bug reports, partnership inquiries, citation questions, takedown requests on the SecFilingDex layer, and general feedback. Full contact details at /contact/.