edgar - Tool for the U.S. SEC EDGAR Retrieval and Parsing of Corporate
Filings
In the USA, companies file different forms with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR
(Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system).
The EDGAR database automated system collects all the different
necessary filings and makes it publicly available. This package
facilitates retrieving, storing, searching, and parsing of all
the available filings on the EDGAR server. It downloads filings
from SEC server in bulk with a single query. Additionally, it
provides various useful functions: extracts 8-K triggering
events, extract "Business (Item 1)" and "Management's
Discussion and Analysis(Item 7)" sections of annual statements,
searches filings for desired keywords, provides sentiment
measures, parses filing header information, and provides HTML
view of SEC filings.