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