> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.focusalpha.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# SEC Filings Coverage Endpoints

> Free discovery endpoints listing every ticker and CIK with SEC filings coverage, the supported form types, and the item types per form.

The SEC Filings Coverage endpoints enumerate what the SEC datasets cover: which tickers and CIKs have filings, which form types are supported, and which item codes exist per form type. All four are free — they cost no credits — so coverage can be checked before spending anything.

<Info>
  **Plan:** Free and above · **Credits:** free (not metered)
</Info>

## What You Can Use the Filings Coverage Endpoints For

Check whether a company is covered before querying it. Validate a form type or an item code against the supported list rather than guessing one. Build a local universe of covered CIKs. Distinguish "not covered" from "covered but nothing found", which is the difference between a data gap and a real answer.

## The Four Filings Coverage Endpoints

The **covered tickers** endpoint lists every ticker in the filings index. The **covered CIKs** endpoint lists every CIK in it, zero-padded to ten characters.

The **form types** endpoint lists the SEC form types the filings index supports. The **item types** endpoint lists the item codes available per form type, for use with [SEC Filing Items](/filings/items).

Two further free endpoints cover the company-facts dataset specifically: its own covered-tickers and covered-CIKs lists. See [Company Facts](/financials/company-facts).

## Why CIK Formatting Differs Here

CIKs on these endpoints are **zero-padded ten-character strings**, for example `0000320193`. The [SEC Filings Index](/filings/index) returns `cik` as an integer instead. Both refer to the same identifier; only the representation differs, and the filings index is the exception.

## Filings Coverage Sources

The lists are derived from the filings index itself, which comes from SEC EDGAR. They describe what FocusAlpha holds, not what EDGAR contains.

## Query the Filings Coverage Endpoints

None of these endpoints takes a parameter. Each returns a `resource` naming the dataset and an array of values.

Because they cost no credits, they are safe to call on every deployment or as a startup check.

## Related Datasets

See also [SEC Filings Index](/filings/index) to query the filings themselves, [SEC Filing Items](/filings/items) for the item codes these endpoints enumerate, [Company Facts](/financials/company-facts) for its own coverage endpoints, and [Coverage and Freshness](/concepts/coverage) for how coverage is reported on every other dataset.

<RequestExample>
  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  curl "https://api.focusalpha.ai/v1/filings/types" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOCUSALPHA_API_KEY"
  ```
</RequestExample>

<ResponseExample>
  ```json Response theme={null}
  {
    "filing_types": [
      "10-K",
      "10-Q",
      "8-K",
      "20-F",
      "6-K",
      "DEF 14A",
      "S-1",
      "424B4",
      "13F-HR",
      "13F-HR/A",
      "10-K/A",
      "10-Q/A",
      "8-K/A"
    ]
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>