How to Get Clean SEC EDGAR Filing Data (Without Getting Rate-Limited)

If you've ever tried to pull U.S. company filings straight from SEC EDGAR, you know the pain. The data is free and public — but using it in a real app is a different story.

Here's the problem, and a shortcut I built to get around it.

The problem with raw EDGAR

SEC's official API at data.sec.gov is great until you actually depend on it:

Rate limits. You're capped at 10 requests/second, and if you cross it your IP is blocked for ~10 minutes. That's fine for a script, brutal for a production feature.