Persons

Look up an individual across SEC filings by their CIK. A person profile stitches together the roles a person holds at public companies (as an officer or director), any investment-adviser roles, and their reported insider transactions. All endpoints live under https://api.edgar.tools/v1.

Person coverage is still expanding, so a valid CIK may return 404 until that individual is backfilled.

GET /v1/persons/{cik}#

Tier: Free

Get a person's profile by CIK.

ParameterTypeDescription
cikinteger (path)The person's SEC CIK
curl "https://api.edgar.tools/v1/persons/0001214156" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer etk_your_key_here"
{
  "cik": "0001214156",
  "name": "COOK TIMOTHY D",
  "display_name": "Timothy D. Cook",
  "is_insider": true,
  "positions": [
    {
      "issuer_cik": "0000320193",
      "issuer_name": "APPLE INC",
      "issuer_ticker": "AAPL",
      "role": "officer",
      "title": "Chief Executive Officer",
      "is_current": true,
      "first_seen": "2011-08-24",
      "last_seen": null
    }
  ],
  "adviser_roles": [],
  "transactions": [
    {
      "transaction_date": "2026-04-01",
      "issuer_cik": "0000320193",
      "issuer_ticker": "AAPL",
      "issuer_name": "APPLE INC",
      "transaction_code": "S",
      "acquired_disposed": "D",
      "shares": 511000,
      "price": 210.5,
      "form": "4",
      "accession_number": "0000320193-26-000045",
      "is_derivative": false
    }
  ]
}

Field notes:

  • positions lists company roles. role is a normalized label (officer, director); is_current is true for an active role, and last_seen is null while current.
  • adviser_roles lists investment-adviser affiliations, matched from Form ADV. matched_via on each entry records how the name was linked (name_exact, name_initial).
  • transactions are Form 3/4/5 insider transactions. transaction_code is the SEC code (S sell, P purchase, A grant); acquired_disposed is A or D.

Returns 404 with { "error": "Person not found", "cik": "0001214156" } when the CIK has no profile yet. Sets Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600.