get_filing_document

Get the full raw text/HTML content of an SEC filing by its internal filing ID (the id on search_sec_filings rows, filingId from lookup_accession_number or get_filing_documents). Returns the complete filing document which can be very large (10-K filings can be 1MB+). Use the maxLength parameter to truncate content for previews.

The response includes company_name, form_type, filing_date, cik, and accession_number alongside the content. Record-only filings (bodyStored: false) have no body here — open them on sec.gov. To read one exhibit rather than the whole submission, use get_filing_documents or get_filing_exhibits, then get_exhibit_content. For Form 3/4/5, 13F and SCHEDULE 13D/G, get_filing_structured returns parsed fields instead of XML.

Coverage: Signal8's SEC EDGAR archive, updated through the day, in its held range (see archiveFrom in each response; currently from late 2021, expanding back to 2016 as the history backfill fills in). Before archiveFrom it holds only a scatter, so ABSENCE BEFORE archiveFrom IS NOT EVIDENCE a filing was never filed; check SEC EDGAR for earlier periods.

Record-only rows (bodyStored: false) have no stored body; open them at their sec.gov URL.