edgar 1.0.0

Scrape data from SEC's EDGAR

A small library to access files from SEC’s edgar.

Installation

pip install edgar

Example

To get a company’s latest 5 10-Ks, run

import edgar
company = edgar.Company("Oracle Corp", "0001341439")
tree = company.getAllFilings(filingType = "10-K")
docs = edgar.getDocuments(tree, noOfDocuments=5)

To get all companies and find a specific one, run

import edgar
edgar = edgar.Edgar()
possible_companies = edgar.findCompanyName("Cisco System")

API

Company

The Company class has two fields:

• name (company name)

• cik (company CIK number)

getFilingsUrl

Returns a url to fetch filings data * Input * filingType: The type of document you want. i.e. 10-K, S-8, 8-K. If not specified, it’ll return all documents * priorTo: Time prior which documents are to be retrieved. If not specified, it’ll return all documents * ownership: defaults to include. Options are include, exclude, only. * noOfEntries: defaults to 100. Returns the number of entries to be returned. Maximum is 100.

getAllFilings

Returns the HTML in the form of lxml.html * Input * filingType: The type of document you want. i.e. 10-K, S-8, 8-K. If not specified, it’ll return all documents * priorTo: Time prior which documents are to be retrieved. If not specified, it’ll return all documents * ownership: defaults to include. Options are include, exclude, only. * noOfEntries: defaults to 100. Returns the number of entries to be returned. Maximum is 100.

Edgar

Gets all companies from EDGAR ##### getCikByCompanyName * Input * name: name of the company

getCompanyNameByCik

• Input

  • cik: cik of the company

findCompanyName

• Input

  • words: input words to search the company

getDocuments

Returns a list of strings, each string contains the body of the specified document from input * Input * tree: lxml.html form that is returned from Company.getAllFilings * noOfDocuments: number of document returned. If it is 1, the returned result is just one string, instead of a list of strings. Defaults to 1.

Release Notes

0.3.0 * Added findCompanyName to Edgar

0.2.0 * Added Edgar

0.1.0 * First release