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Insider trading data API

How to read InsiderAlpha's SEC insider trading data from code or an AI assistant, from open RSS feeds to authenticated queries over MCP.

MCP: query access for AI assistants and scripts

The main way in is a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at mcp.insideralpha.ai. It has 19 tools over the same database the site reads: filing search, company and insider profiles, the daily trading plan, 8-K filings, market data and, with scopes you grant separately, your own portfolio and broker orders.

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and Codex connect with OAuth. Scripts and CLIs use a personal access token (iamcp_...) from your account settings. Research access is the default; portfolio and trading are each a separate grant.

Setup guides and the full tool table are in the MCP documentation. The 7-day demo can connect, and it reads the daily trading plan on the same delay as the demo on the site. Paid plans read each plan before the open: see the plans.

Free feeds that need no account

  • /feeds/insiders-recent-buys.xml - RSS of the 50 most recent Form 4 insider purchases (transaction code P) from the last 14 days.
  • /feeds/top-insider-buys-this-week.xml - RSS of the purchases behind the top insider buys of the week, one item per filing, last 7 days.
  • /feeds/insider-clusters.xml - RSS of insider cluster buying: companies where two or more different insiders bought in the same 14 days, one item per cluster with each member's filing.
  • /feeds/ceo-purchases.xml - RSS of purchases by chief executives and chief financial officers from the last 30 days.
  • /feeds/form-144.xml - RSS of Form 144 notices of proposed sale from the last 30 days.
  • /feeds/8k-today.xml - RSS of the 50 most recent SEC Form 8-K filings from the last 36 hours: which company filed and when.
  • /feeds/congress-trades.xml - RSS of the 50 newest stock trades disclosed by members of the House in the last 30 days, with their reported value ranges.
  • /llms-full.txt - a plain-text summary of the public site for AI crawlers and retrieval pipelines: the page inventory, a transaction-code reference and current counts.

None of these need an account, so a feed reader, a custom GPT or a cron job can use them as they are.

What about a raw REST API?

The REST API behind this site runs at api.insideralpha.ai, but it serves this site and its apps, and we do not issue standalone REST API keys. For queries, use the MCP server: it speaks plain JSON over HTTP, and most HTTP clients can call it directly with a personal access token.

Bulk exports or a custom integration: contact us with what you are building.

What is in the data

SEC Form 4 filings (deduplicated: most raw filings are duplicates, and they are marked rather than dropped), Form 144 notices,8-K filings cross-referenced against the insider buying that came before them, stock trades disclosed by members of the U.S. House under the STOCK Act with the value range as filed, insider profiles with roles, biographies where we have them and past-purchase figures where there is enough history, company profiles across all 11 GICS sectors, and the daily trading plan with every Alpha Score. Every filing traces back to its EDGAR accession number.

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