SEC filings move markets. An 8-K announcing a CEO departure, a 10-K revealing unexpected losses, or an S-1 signaling an upcoming IPO can shift a stock price in minutes. The SEC's EDGAR system publishes every filing in real time, but checking it manually is impractical. PageCrawl monitors EDGAR filing pages and sends you a notification the moment a new filing appears.
Quick Setup
Enter a ticker symbol below (or pick a popular company) and PageCrawl will set up monitoring on the company's EDGAR filings page. You'll get notified whenever a new filing appears.
Why Monitor SEC Filings?
Public companies are required to file documents with the SEC at specific intervals and whenever material events occur. These filings contain information that directly affects investment decisions, compliance obligations, and competitive strategy.
Market-moving disclosures. Earnings reports (10-Q, 10-K), material events (8-K), and insider transactions (Form 4) often trigger immediate price movements. The faster you see a filing, the more time you have to react.
Compliance obligations. If your organization has regulatory reporting requirements, monitoring competitor or counterparty filings helps you stay aware of changes that could affect your own obligations.
Competitive intelligence. Filings reveal revenue figures, strategic plans, risk factors, executive compensation, and material contracts. Tracking competitors' filings gives you structured, reliable data straight from the source.
M&A activity. Merger agreements, tender offers, and proxy statements all appear on EDGAR before they make headlines. Monitoring specific companies lets you catch deal activity early.
How EDGAR Filing Pages Work
The SEC maintains a public filing page for every company in the EDGAR system. Each company has a unique identifier called a CIK (Central Index Key), and you can access their filings page at a predictable URL.
The URL follows this pattern:
https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=TICKER&type=&dateb=&owner=include&count=40&search_text=&action=getcompanyReplace TICKER with the company's ticker symbol or CIK number. For example, to monitor Apple's filings, you would use AAPL as the CIK value. The page displays a table of recent filings with the filing type, description, date, and links to the full documents.
You can also filter by filing type directly in the URL by setting the type parameter. For example, adding &type=8-K shows only 8-K filings.
You can look up any company's CIK number on the SEC's EDGAR company search page.
These pages update automatically whenever a new filing is submitted. PageCrawl checks the page on your chosen schedule and alerts you when new entries appear in the table.
Setting Up SEC Filing Alerts
1. Find the EDGAR Filings URL
Go to the SEC EDGAR company search and search for the company you want to monitor. You can search by ticker symbol (e.g., AAPL, MSFT, TSLA) or by company name.
Once you find the company, copy the URL from your browser. Or use the quick setup tool above, which builds the URL for you.
2. Create a Monitor in PageCrawl
Sign up at PageCrawl.io and click Track New Page. Paste the EDGAR filings URL. PageCrawl will load the page and display the filings table.
The EDGAR filings page is a clean HTML table listing each filing's type, description, and date. PageCrawl's content monitoring detects when new rows appear in the table, which means a new filing was submitted.
3. Choose Your Check Frequency
For time-sensitive filings like 8-K reports, check as frequently as possible. Companies often file 8-Ks outside of market hours, so continuous monitoring catches filings that arrive overnight or on weekends.
For routine quarterly and annual filings (10-Q, 10-K), hourly or daily checks are usually sufficient since you know the approximate filing window.
4. Configure Notifications
Choose how you want to be alerted:
- Web push notifications deliver instantly to your phone or desktop
- Telegram messages arrive within seconds
- Slack and Discord webhooks integrate with your existing workflow
- Email works well for filings where minutes don't matter
- Webhooks let you trigger custom automation when a filing appears
You can enable multiple channels to make sure nothing slips through.
Filing Types You Should Track
| Filing Type | What It Contains | When It's Filed |
|---|---|---|
| 10-K | Annual report with audited financials, risk factors, business overview | Within 60 days of fiscal year end |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report with unaudited financials | Within 40 days of quarter end |
| 8-K | Material events (leadership changes, acquisitions, bankruptcy) | Within 4 business days of the event |
| S-1 | IPO registration statement | Before going public |
| DEF 14A | Proxy statement with executive compensation and board matters | Before annual shareholder meeting |
| Form 4 | Insider stock transactions (buys and sells) | Within 2 business days of the transaction |
| 13-F | Institutional investor holdings (hedge funds, mutual funds) | Within 45 days of quarter end |
| SC 13D/G | Beneficial ownership above 5% | Within 10 days of crossing the threshold |
Filtering by Filing Type
If you only care about specific filing types, select one from the Filing Type Filter dropdown in the quick setup tool above. This adds a type parameter to the EDGAR URL (e.g., &type=8-K), so EDGAR itself only returns matching filings.
You can also do this manually. Go to the SEC EDGAR company search, search for the company, set the filing type filter on the page, and copy the resulting URL. Then paste it into PageCrawl when creating a new monitor.
This is especially useful for companies that file frequently. Large companies may submit dozens of filings per quarter, and filtering lets you focus on the ones that matter to your specific use case.
Use Cases
Individual investors. Monitor the companies in your portfolio so you never miss an earnings report, insider transaction, or material event. Pair filing alerts with price alerts to get the full picture.
Compliance teams. Track filings from counterparties, subsidiaries, or regulated entities. Automated monitoring replaces manual EDGAR checks and creates a reliable audit trail.
M&A professionals. Watch for SC 13D filings (activist investor positions), S-4 filings (merger registrations), and 8-K filings announcing deal activity. Early awareness of these filings can be critical.
Competitive intelligence. Monitor competitors' 10-K and 10-Q filings to track revenue trends, strategic shifts, and risk factors. This data is public, structured, and updated on a predictable schedule.
Journalists and researchers. Get alerts for filings from companies you're covering. EDGAR is the primary source for corporate financial data, and monitoring it directly is faster than waiting for press coverage.
Getting Started
Set up your first SEC filing alert in under two minutes. Create a free account, paste an EDGAR filings URL, and choose your notification method.
PageCrawl's free plan includes enough checks to monitor a handful of companies on a daily schedule. For more frequent checks or a larger watchlist, paid plans start at a few dollars per month.