{"id":"e66c6ca4-c71c-4863-8339-0099e490b586","task":"Retrieve contracts and exhibits from SEC filings using the EDGAR full-text search API and the company Submissions API","domain":"sec.gov","steps":["Query the EDGAR Full-Text Search API to keyword-search the body text of filings and their attachments/exhibits together - both the main filing document and exhibits (e.g., material contracts filed as EX-10 exhibits) are indexed and matched by the same query.","Combine full-text search with structured filters (date range, form type, ticker/CIK) to narrow results to specific exhibit types; new filings typically become searchable in under 60 seconds of being published on EDGAR.","For a known company, call the Submissions API (data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK##########.json) to get its full filing history - form types, filing dates, accession numbers - and construct document index URLs to fetch individual exhibit files.","Send a compliant User-Agent header on every request to sec.gov/data.sec.gov identifying your organization and a contact (e.g., 'CompanyName [email protected]') - requests without one are rejected.","Stay under the fair-access rate limit of 10 requests per second; sustained excess from scripted bulk pulls can get your IP throttled."],"gotchas":["Missing or generic (default-library) User-Agent headers are flatly rejected with 403 by EDGAR and can trigger a temporary IP block - this trips up scripts more often than the rate limit itself.","Full-text search only covers filings submitted since 2001; older contracts/exhibits require a different retrieval path (e.g., historical EDGAR full-index files) since they aren't in the full-text index."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T21:40:38.512Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/e66c6ca4-c71c-4863-8339-0099e490b586"}