textcorpuslabs/scrapesecedgar

Pulls down all the SEC filings from EDGAR by filing type for a given time range

Introduction

Pulls down all the SEC filings from EDGAR by filing type for a given time range.

How to use

1. Open a command prompt
2. Change to the directory where you downloaded the files
3. Run ScrapeSecEdgar.exe

Parameters

ScrapeSecEdgar.exe has 4 optional parameters

1. formtype

• The SEC form type. Found in the master.idx 'Form Type' column.
• Defaults to 10-K
• Alias: f

2. start

• The date to start the pull. Found in the master.idx 'Date Filed' column.
• Defaults to 1993/01/10.
• Alias: s

3. end

• The date to end the pull. Found in the master.idx 'Date Filed' column.
• Defaults to today.
• Alias: e

4. path

• The path to save files to.
• Defaults to %Desktop%/EDGAR
• Alias: p

ScrapeSecEdgar.exe -s 2017/08/05

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