SEC's EDGAR API

Thursday, August 26, 2021 at 04:12PM
Charlie in Digital Financial Reporting

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has published an EDGAR API that is worth having a look at. With the API, you can do things like the following:

• Get a list of submissions to the SEC for a specific CIK number. Here are Microsoft's submissions.
• Get a list of fact values for a specific concept for a specific CIK. Here is the concept Assets for Microsoft reports submitted.
• Get a list of all facts reported by a specific CIK.  Here are all facts reported by Microsoft.
• Here is another list of facts.  Don't exactly understand what they are doing here frankly.

Well...this is a start.

Article originally appeared on XBRL-based structured digital financial reporting (http://xbrl.squarespace.com/).