SEC Python Web Scraper

This repository contains a Python Web scraper for parsing 13F filings (mutual fund holdings) from SEC's website, EDGAR, and writing a .tsv file from the data.

Requirements

Getting Started

• pip install -r requirements.txt (or pipenv install if you are using pipenv)
• python scraper.py (or pipenv run python scraper.py)
• When prompted, enter the 10-digit CIK number of a mutual fund

Key Dependencies

• Requests, Python library for making HTTP requests
• lxml, Python library for processing XML and HTML
• Beautiful Soup, Python library for scraping information from Web pages
• re, Python module for using regular expressions
• csv, Python module for parsing and writing CSV and TSV files

Contributor

• Gary Pang

References

• SEC: Frequently Asked Questions About Form 13F

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• form 4 Form 4 - Insider Buying/Selling