filing_information {edgarWebR}

SEC Filing Information

Description

The SEC generates a html page as an index for every filing it receives containing all the meta-information about the filing.

Usage

filing_information(x)

## S3 method for class 'character'
filing_information(x)

## S3 method for class 'xml_node'
filing_information(x)

Arguments

x

URL or xml_document for a SEC filing index page

Details

Information returned:

• type

• description

• accession_number

• filing_date

• accepted_date

• documents

• period_date

• changed_date

• effective_date

• filing_bytes

Not all details are valid for all filings, but the column will always be present

If you know you're going to want all the details of a filing, including documents funds and filers, look at 'filing_details'

Value

A dataframe with all the parsed meta-info on the filing

Examples

# Typically you'd get the URL from one of the search functions
x <- paste0("https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/",
            "933691/000119312517247698/0001193125-17-247698-index.htm")
try(filing_information(x))