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SEC Filing Items splits a single SEC filing into the numbered items the form defines, each with its text. Each observation is one item of one filing — Item 1A risk factors, Item 7 management’s discussion and analysis, an 8-K event item. This is the endpoint for reading a named section of a named filing, as opposed to searching across filings by meaning.
Plan: Free and above · Credits: 1 per call

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What You Can Use SEC Filing Items For

Read a company’s risk factors or MD&A in full. Diff one year’s Item 1A against the previous year’s. Pull the exact 8-K item text behind a structured event. Feed a specific section into a model rather than the whole filing.

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SEC Filing Items Coverage

The form types supported are 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K. The item types endpoint lists which item codes exist for each form type.

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How to Address One Filing

A filing is addressed by ticker, form type and year, plus one more field depending on the form. For a 10-K, ticker, filing_type=10-K and year are enough. For a 10-Q, also pass quarter as 1 to 4. For an 8-K, also pass the accession_number, because a company files many 8-Ks in a year. Get it from the SEC Filings Index. year is the calendar year of the filing’s period of report, not the year it was filed.

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Items Incorporated by Reference

Public companies routinely satisfy an item by pointing at another document rather than repeating it — a proxy statement, an exhibit. By default such an item returns the cross-reference as filed. Pass resolve=true to expand items incorporated by reference to their full text. Without it, an item can come back short and technically correct, which reads like missing data.

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Key SEC Filing Item Fields

Each item carries its item code — Item-1A, Item-7, and so on — and its text. include_exhibits=true attaches exhibit metadata to the response. An answer-less response is possible: a filing that could not be parsed into items returns a successful response with no items. That case is not charged a credit.

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SEC Filing Items Date Convention

year and quarter refer to the filing’s period of report — the fiscal period the document covers — not to the date it was filed. A 10-K covering fiscal 2025 filed in October 2025 is year=2025.

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SEC Filing Items Sources

Item text is taken from the filing itself on SEC EDGAR and split along the form’s own item structure. Text is not summarised or rewritten.

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Query SEC Filing Items

Use the filing items endpoint to split one filing.
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string
required
The issuer’s ticker.
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string
required
10-K, 10-Q or 8-K.
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integer
required
Calendar year of the filing’s period of report.
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integer
Quarter 1 to 4. Required for a 10-Q.
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string
The filing’s accession number. Required for an 8-K.
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string[]
Specific item codes to return, repeatable — for example Item-1A and Item-7. Omit to return all items.
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boolean
default:"false"
Attach exhibit metadata to the response.
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boolean
default:"false"
Expand items incorporated by reference to their full text.
This route returns a bare wrapper key rather than the standard envelope, and uses the flat { error, message } error body. See also SEC Filings Index to find the filing and its accession number, Semantic Retrieval when you want to search across filings by meaning rather than read one section, and 8-K Events for structured events extracted from 8-K filings.