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StockFit API

structured SEC EDGAR data with a free tier

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HN · launched Apr 15, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 61%) · 0 views

Niche: data enrichment and lookup apis · 83 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Fintech
  • Data infrastructure
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

No Parsing raw SEC EDGAR XBRL filings accurately into normalized financial statements involves massive edge cases, historical accounting taxonomies, and continuous validation pipelines.

What it would actually take: A production SEC API requires high-throughput scrapers for EDGAR archives, custom parsers for legacy HTML, SGML, and complex US-GAAP/IFRS XBRL XML taxonomies, along with normalization pipelines handling restatements and split adjustments. The system needs distributed workers (Celery/Temporal) backed by PostgreSQL/ClickHouse. Building this requires deep financial accounting expertise and specialized data engineering to handle inconsistent reporting practices across thousands of public companies.

Discussion

1 comment analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Arelle (XBRL processing alternative), Manual EDGAR parsing solutions, Other fintech APIs with SEC data

Concerns raised: Q4 reconstruction edge cases with non-December fiscal year ends, XBRL tagging inconsistency across filers, Historical data sparse before 2010, US-only coverage, no international filings

Feature requests: Real-time market quotes integration, Historical point-in-time data expansion, International filings support

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 746 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #399 of 747 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 168 days after the earliest competitor.

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