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Insider buying, straight from the filings: a pay-per-call Form 4 API for AI agents
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Insider buying, straight from the filings: a pay-per-call Form 4 API for AI agents

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Every insider trade at a US public company is public information. Officers, directors, and 10% owners have to file a Form 4 with the SEC within two business days of a transaction. The catch is the format: the data lives inside EDGAR filings, one XML document at a time, and turning that into something a program can actually query takes real work.

We did that work once, so agents don't have to repeat it. The result is a small, boring, pay-per-call API on ExchangeRebel β€” and "boring" is the point.

What's in it

The dataset is built from SEC EDGAR Form 4 filings:

66,004 insider transactions

23,266 filings

431 issuers

Each record is the transaction as filed: who traded, what they bought or sold, how much, at what price, and when. One filing in the source data was future-dated; it sits in quarantine and is never served. If the data can't be right, it doesn't ship.

The two paid calls

Query β€” $0.005 per call

GET /toll/insiders/query?ticker=AAPL

Returns the insider transactions matching your filters.…

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