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SEC EDGAR Form 4 scraper for Insider Transactions

Hi All,

Does anyone know of a good Edgar Form 4 scraper/fetcher to get the reported insider transactions in listed companies? Either from Edgar itself: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/accessing-edgar-data.htm (free)

Or from a third-party source, e.g. http://www.form4oracle.com/welcome (cost money)

I found this one on github, has anyone tried it? https://github.com/rahulrrixe/sec-edgar/pull/17

I would think there's quite a bit of alpha based on insiders transactions still, especially buys. Their kids especially appear to be pretty good stock pickers and market timers: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/68d7/7918c8721b5d0fc2a29e3694fc14765d948c.pdf

Is there any other way of getting this information in to a pipeline function, ideally without having to pay for it?

2 responses

I might give this a try, setting 'owner' to 'only' in 1.4

Probably a stupid question (I'm not a programmer), but is there a reason why you can't import BeautifulSoup directly in to the IDE or Research environment? Potentially too resource/memory intensive maybe?

thank you