sec-api VS clickpy

Doesn't that mean that developers were profiting from a free API before? That may be fair play, but doesn't it raise ethical concerns in terms of business practices? (This guy is the GOAT of that, got rich off SEC public data)

Using this API: https://sec-api.io/ , you could get and act on new report numbers faster than any human could.

The SEC has set up 'data.sec.gov' to host RESTful APIs that deliver JSON-formatted data to external clients and to websites on SEC.gov. No authentication or API keys are required to access these APIs. Unfortunately, 'data.sec.gov' currently only provides access to Form 10-Q, 10-K, 8-K, 20-F, 40-F, and 6-K filings, but does not (yet?) provide access to Form 13F filings. However, SEC API (https://sec-api.io/) provides a relatively user-friendly query API that also includes Form 13F filings and kindly converts EDGAR filings from XML/XBRL to JSON (it does however require a key).

Thought i'd share some recent work i'd done after being generally frustrated as to the available analytics for Python modules. Most seem to be either limited in time or incur charges to query.

Code is Apache 2 at https://github.com/clickHouse/clickpy

The downloads for Python modules are actually available in BigQuery - a row for every package download in the world. Last time i checked it's the largest BigQuery public dataset at almost 700b rows. Wanting to do some serious analytics led to a few frustrations though:

- speed for queries - BigQuery is great for complex SQL, less so for fast analytics.