SEC Form 4 Insider Trade Alerts
A public company's recent Form 4 insider buy/sell filings as structured data, live from SEC EDGAR, with plain-English context per transaction.
The problem
Investors, fintech dashboards, and research tools tracking corporate insider activity all need the same raw material: a company's Form 4 filings (officers, directors, and large shareholders reporting trades in their own company's stock), turned into structured, queryable data instead of SEC EDGAR's own filing-by-filing HTML interface.
Who it's for
Fintech dashboards, investment research tools, and individual investors or analysts who want a company's recent insider transactions as structured data instead of reading raw filings.
Use cases
- Powering an insider-activity feed or dashboard for a specific ticker or watchlist
- Research: pulling a company's recent Form 4 history programmatically instead of paging through EDGAR
- Flagging a transaction's context at a glance — for example, a sale its own footnote ties to a Rule 10b5-1 plan
What it does
Send a stock ticker or SEC CIK number and get back that company's recent Form 4 transactions: insider name and role, transaction type and size, price, resulting holdings, whether that transaction's own footnote places it under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan (false means the footnotes don't say so — not that there was no plan), and a short AI-generated note giving plain-English context, written only from that row's parsed fields: where the 10b5-1 flag or the transaction code (F, A, M or G) has a defined meaning, the note states that meaning as a fact about the filing, without calling the transaction routine or significant. The note does not see the filing's footnotes. Only filings where the company you asked about is the issuer are returned: a company's own filings as an insider in another company are excluded. It is a lookup: it answers when you call it and does not push new filings to you (SEC's own EDGAR company search can be subscribed to as a feed of a company's latest filings, filtered by filing type).
Example
Request
GET /insider-transactions?ticker=AAPL&limit=5
Response
Captured live 2026-09-24 from the request above, values unedited. EDGAR is read per request, so a call today returns that company’s current filings; the AI note is written fresh each time.
{
"company": {
"name": "Apple Inc.",
"ticker": "AAPL",
"cik": "320193"
},
"filings": [
{
"insider_name": "Newstead Jennifer",
"insider_cik": "1780525",
"role": "Officer (SVP, GC and Government Affairs)",
"transaction_type": "Open market or private sale",
"transaction_code": "S",
"acquired_disposed_code": "D",
"security_title": "Common Stock",
"is_derivative": false,
"shares": 2399,
"price_per_share": 340.06,
"transaction_value_usd": 815803.94,
"transaction_date": "2026-09-22",
"post_transaction_holdings": 44391,
"ownership_type": "direct",
"is_rule_10b5_1_plan": true,
"ai_significance_note": "Jennifer Newstead, SVP, GC and Government Affairs at Apple Inc., sold 2,399 shares of common stock on September 22, 2026, at $340.06 per share for a total value of $815,803.94. The sale was executed under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and her post-transaction holdings total 44,391 shares.",
"accession_number": "0001140361-26-037584",
"filing_date": "2026-09-24",
"period_of_report": "2026-09-22",
"filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126037584/0001140361-26-037584-index.htm"
},
{
"insider_name": "Newstead Jennifer",
"insider_cik": "1780525",
"role": "Officer (SVP, GC and Government Affairs)",
"transaction_type": "Open market or private sale",
"transaction_code": "S",
"acquired_disposed_code": "D",
"security_title": "Common Stock",
"is_derivative": false,
"shares": 1438,
"price_per_share": 330.19,
"transaction_value_usd": 474813.22,
"transaction_date": "2026-09-15",
"post_transaction_holdings": 32914,
"ownership_type": "direct",
"is_rule_10b5_1_plan": true,
"ai_significance_note": "Jennifer Newstead, SVP, GC and Government Affairs at Apple Inc., sold 1,438 shares of common stock on September 15, 2026, at $330.19 per share for a total value of $474,813.22. The sale was executed under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, which allows officers to establish predetermined trading schedules in advance. Following this transaction, Newstead held 32,914 shares directly.",
"accession_number": "0001140361-26-037020",
"filing_date": "2026-09-17",
"period_of_report": "2026-09-15",
"filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126037020/0001140361-26-037020-index.htm"
},
{
"insider_name": "Newstead Jennifer",
"insider_cik": "1780525",
"role": "Officer (SVP, GC and Government Affairs)",
"transaction_type": "Exercise or conversion of a derivative security",
"transaction_code": "M",
"acquired_disposed_code": "A",
"security_title": "Common Stock",
"is_derivative": false,
"shares": 30104,
"price_per_share": null,
"transaction_value_usd": null,
"transaction_date": "2026-09-15",
"post_transaction_holdings": 63018,
"ownership_type": "direct",
"is_rule_10b5_1_plan": false,
"ai_significance_note": "Jennifer Newstead, SVP, GC and Government Affairs at Apple Inc., exercised or converted a derivative security on September 15, 2026, acquiring 30,104 shares of common stock. Following this transaction, her direct ownership totaled 63,018 shares.",
"accession_number": "0001140361-26-037020",
"filing_date": "2026-09-17",
"period_of_report": "2026-09-15",
"filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126037020/0001140361-26-037020-index.htm"
},
{
"insider_name": "Newstead Jennifer",
"insider_cik": "1780525",
"role": "Officer (SVP, GC and Government Affairs)",
"transaction_type": "Shares delivered or withheld to pay an exercise price or tax liability",
"transaction_code": "F",
"acquired_disposed_code": "D",
"security_title": "Common Stock",
"is_derivative": false,
"shares": 16228,
"price_per_share": 331.34,
"transaction_value_usd": 5376985.52,
"transaction_date": "2026-09-15",
"post_transaction_holdings": 46790,
"ownership_type": "direct",
"is_rule_10b5_1_plan": false,
"ai_significance_note": "Jennifer Newstead, SVP, GC and Government Affairs at Apple, delivered 16,228 shares of common stock on September 15, 2026, with a value of approximately $5.4 million, to satisfy a tax liability or exercise price obligation (transaction code F). Following this transaction, her direct holdings totaled 46,790 shares.",
"accession_number": "0001140361-26-037020",
"filing_date": "2026-09-17",
"period_of_report": "2026-09-15",
"filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126037020/0001140361-26-037020-index.htm"
},
{
"insider_name": "Newstead Jennifer",
"insider_cik": "1780525",
"role": "Officer (SVP, GC and Government Affairs)",
"transaction_type": "Exercise or conversion of a derivative security",
"transaction_code": "M",
"acquired_disposed_code": "D",
"security_title": "Restricted Stock Unit",
"is_derivative": true,
"shares": 30104,
"price_per_share": null,
"transaction_value_usd": null,
"transaction_date": "2026-09-15",
"post_transaction_holdings": 180624,
"ownership_type": "direct",
"is_rule_10b5_1_plan": false,
"ai_significance_note": "Jennifer Newstead, SVP, GC and Government Affairs at Apple Inc., exercised or converted 30,104 restricted stock units on September 15, 2026. Following this transaction, her direct ownership in Apple totaled 180,624 shares.",
"accession_number": "0001140361-26-037020",
"filing_date": "2026-09-17",
"period_of_report": "2026-09-15",
"filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126037020/0001140361-26-037020-index.htm"
},
{
"insider_name": "Newstead Jennifer",
"insider_cik": "1780525",
"role": "Officer (SVP, GC and Government Affairs)",
"transaction_type": "Open market or private sale",
"transaction_code": "S",
"acquired_disposed_code": "D",
"security_title": "Common Stock",
"is_derivative": false,
"shares": 1438,
"price_per_share": 317.23,
"transaction_value_usd": 456176.74,
"transaction_date": "2026-09-08",
"post_transaction_holdings": 34352,
"ownership_type": "direct",
"is_rule_10b5_1_plan": true,
"ai_significance_note": "Jennifer Newstead, SVP, GC and Government Affairs at Apple Inc., sold 1,438 shares of common stock on September 8, 2026, at $317.23 per share for a total value of $456,176.74. The sale was executed under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, which allows insiders to establish predetermined trading schedules in advance. Following this transaction, Newstead held 34,352 shares directly.",
"accession_number": "0001140361-26-036226",
"filing_date": "2026-09-10",
"period_of_report": "2026-09-08",
"filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126036226/0001140361-26-036226-index.htm"
},
{
"insider_name": "Newstead Jennifer",
"insider_cik": "1780525",
"role": "Officer (SVP, GC and Government Affairs)",
"transaction_type": "Open market or private sale",
"transaction_code": "S",
"acquired_disposed_code": "D",
"security_title": "Common Stock",
"is_derivative": false,
"shares": 1439,
"price_per_share": 317.01,
"transaction_value_usd": 456177.39,
"transaction_date": "2026-09-01",
"post_transaction_holdings": 35790,
"ownership_type": "direct",
"is_rule_10b5_1_plan": true,
"ai_significance_note": "Jennifer Newstead, SVP, GC and Government Affairs at Apple Inc., sold 1,439 shares of common stock on September 1, 2026, at $317.01 per share for a total value of $456,177.39. The sale was executed under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, which allows officers to establish predetermined trading schedules in advance. Following this transaction, Newstead held 35,790 shares directly.",
"accession_number": "0001140361-26-035636",
"filing_date": "2026-09-03",
"period_of_report": "2026-09-01",
"filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126035636/0001140361-26-035636-index.htm"
},
{
"insider_name": "Ternus John",
"insider_cik": "2148403",
"role": "Officer (CEO), Director",
"transaction_type": "Grant, award, or other acquisition (e.g. equity compensation)",
"transaction_code": "A",
"acquired_disposed_code": "A",
"security_title": "Restricted Stock Unit",
"is_derivative": true,
"shares": 7690,
"price_per_share": 0,
"transaction_value_usd": null,
"transaction_date": "2026-09-01",
"post_transaction_holdings": 7690,
"ownership_type": "direct",
"is_rule_10b5_1_plan": false,
"ai_significance_note": "On September 1, 2026, John Ternus, CEO and Director of Apple Inc., received a grant of 7,690 restricted stock units (RSUs) with no per-share price indicated. This is an equity compensation award (code A) that resulted in post-transaction holdings of 7,690 RSUs. The transaction is not part of a Rule 10b5-1 plan.",
"accession_number": "0001140361-26-035362",
"filing_date": "2026-09-01",
"period_of_report": "2026-09-01",
"filing_index_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000114036126035362/0001140361-26-035362-index.htm"
}
],
"disclaimer": "This output is informational only and is not investment advice or a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security. Insider transactions reported on Form 4 can reflect many benign, routine reasons -- tax planning, portfolio diversification, options expiring, compensation-related withholding, or a pre-scheduled Rule 10b5-1 trading plan set up long before this transaction -- as well as potentially more significant signals. This output does not and cannot determine which applies to any specific transaction. Verify directly with SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar) before relying on this for any investment decision. Amended filings (Form 4/A) are not read: an amendment supersedes the transaction it corrects, so a transaction shown here may have been amended and the correction is not reflected. Only the company's recent filing list on SEC EDGAR is read, and within it only the newest Form 4 filings up to the requested limit, so older insider transactions are not shown. A Form 4 in that list where the company is itself an insider (a reporting owner) of another issuer is left out, so fewer filings than requested can come back. When several reporting owners file one Form 4 jointly, each transaction is shown under the first-listed owner only; the others are named on the filing itself (filing_index_url).",
"narrative_provider": "aervik-ai-v1",
"narrative_status": "ok",
"data_source": "SEC EDGAR (data.sec.gov submissions API + www.sec.gov Archives), https://www.sec.gov/edgar -- official U.S. government public data, free, keyless, queried live per-request.",
"generated_at": "2026-09-25T00:18:14.260Z"
}
Calling it directly — real, working requests you can paste and run:
cURL
curl "https://sec-form-4-insider-trade-alerts-api.p.rapidapi.com/insider-transactions?ticker=AAPL&limit=5" \ -H "X-RapidAPI-Key: $RAPIDAPI_KEY" \ -H "X-RapidAPI-Host: sec-form-4-insider-trade-alerts-api.p.rapidapi.com"
Python
import os
import requests
RAPIDAPI_HOST = "sec-form-4-insider-trade-alerts-api.p.rapidapi.com"
# `ticker` or `cik` — either identifies the issuer.
resp = requests.get(
f"https://{RAPIDAPI_HOST}/insider-transactions",
params={"ticker": "AAPL", "limit": 5},
headers={
"X-RapidAPI-Key": os.environ["RAPIDAPI_KEY"],
"X-RapidAPI-Host": RAPIDAPI_HOST,
},
)
print(resp.json())
Node.js
const RAPIDAPI_HOST = 'sec-form-4-insider-trade-alerts-api.p.rapidapi.com';
// `ticker` or `cik` — either identifies the issuer.
const url = new URL(`https://${RAPIDAPI_HOST}/insider-transactions`);
url.searchParams.set('ticker', 'AAPL');
url.searchParams.set('limit', '5');
const res = await fetch(url, {
headers: {
'X-RapidAPI-Key': process.env.RAPIDAPI_KEY,
'X-RapidAPI-Host': RAPIDAPI_HOST,
},
});
console.log(await res.json());
Where this API's data comes from, how we read it, and each source's own update schedule: Data Sources & Freshness.
Machine-readable: the OpenAPI 3.1 document for this API, generated from its code — import it into Postman or a client generator. More on the developer page.
A ready-made Postman collection is also available: import it and the shared environment in Postman (Import, then select the file), then set RAPIDAPI_KEY to your RapidAPI key.
Key features
- Live per-request query against SEC EDGAR, never a bundled snapshot
- Role, transaction type and the 10b5-1 flag parsed from the filing itself, never inferred by the AI — a footnote that denies a plan reads as a denial
- AI context note written from the transaction's parsed fields, with a guard that blocks advice, signals and forecasts
- Ticker or CIK lookup, with automatic dot/hyphen share-class handling (e.g. BRK.B / BRK-B)
Pricing
A free tier of 20 requests a month covers light testing, no card required. Paid plans start at $49/month for 1,000 lookups and are hard-capped — calls stop at the limit rather than billing you. Only the top plan (10,000 lookups) runs on a soft limit, with overage at $0.02 per additional lookup beyond it.
This output is informational only. It is not investment advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security. Insider transactions reported on Form 4 can reflect many benign, routine reasons — tax planning, portfolio diversification, options expiring, compensation-related withholding, or a pre-scheduled Rule 10b5-1 trading plan set up long before this specific transaction — as well as, in some cases, more significant signals. This API does not and cannot determine which applies to any specific transaction. Verify directly with SEC EDGAR before relying on this for any investment decision.
Only EDGAR’s “recent” filing window is read, and amended filings (Form 4/A) are not read. An
amendment supersedes the transaction it corrects, so a transaction returned here may since have
been amended and the correction will not appear. Filings in which the company is a reporting
owner in another company are excluded, and in a joint filing every transaction is attributed to
the first-listed reporting owner. Every response says all of this in its disclaimer field.
What a row does not carry: footnote text and remarks, exercise and expiration dates, the underlying
shares of a derivative row, and Forms 3, 5 and 144. Holdings are the holdings on that row’s ownership
line, direct or indirect, not the insider’s total position. Insiders have
two business days
after most transactions to file, so the newest trades may not be filed yet; each row carries both
transaction_date and filing_date.
How each of these is handled, with the filings that show why, is written up for anyone parsing Form 4 themselves: Parsing SEC Form 4 XML: Nine Traps in EDGAR’s Filing Data
How common two of those traps are across a whole quarter of filings, with the method and downloadable data: SEC Form 4, 2026 Q2: issuer-as-owner filings, flag spellings and filing timing.