f/fundlab/edgar.py
Greg Pomerantz e9f8dfc462 fundlab: EDGAR investment-objective fetcher + curated fallback
- edgar.py: SEC FTS + submissions API; strict cover-gate extraction
  (name in title position or (TICKER) on the cover; underlying-reference
  names like leveraged wrappers rejected); 4-pass fetch (ticker->CIK
  filings, name search, annual reports, ticker search); keyword category
  classifier. Returns None rather than a wrong fund's objective.
- fundinfo.py CLI: curated -> cached -> EDGAR resolution into funds.json
- funds_curated.json: human-verified objectives for 13 benchmark-pool
  funds (iShares/Vanguard family-trust classes the scraper can't reach)
- tests: 26 checks incl. live EDGAR fetch of VTSAX
2026-08-25 18:15:48 -04:00

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"""EDGAR fetcher: fund investment objective + category from SEC filings.
Pipeline: fund name -> EDGAR full-text search over prospectus/annual-report
forms (N-1A, 485APOS, 8-A12B, S-1, N-CSR, N-CSRS) -> fetch the document ->
extract the "Investment Objective" sentence -> classify the fund category.
SEC usage policy: identify yourself via USER_AGENT (name + contact), stay
well under 10 requests/second (we insert REQUEST_DELAY between calls).
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import re
import time
import urllib.error
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request
USER_AGENT = "fundlab (personal research) gmp@wow.st"
REQUEST_DELAY = 0.15 # seconds between SEC requests
MAX_DOC_BYTES = 60 * 2 ** 20 # skip documents bigger than this
# forms whose primary document contains a fund's investment objective.
# Per-fund registration statements are tried FIRST — they hold one fund's
# objective in a clean "Fund Summary" box. Family annual reports (N-CSR/
# N-CSRS) cover hundreds of funds across several sub-documents, so the
# target fund's section may be in a part the search doesn't surface.
# forms whose documents contain a fund's investment objective. Per-fund
# registration statements are tried FIRST — they hold one fund's objective
# in a clean "Fund Summary" box. Annual reports (N-CSR/N-CSRS) are a
# fallback; family filings covering many funds are filtered out by the
# cover gate (see _on_cover).
PROSPECTUS_FORMS = "485APOS,485BPOS,497,497K,497F,N-1A,8-A12B,S-1,FWP,424B2,424B3"
ANNUAL_FORMS = "N-CSR,N-CSRS"
# how far into a document the fund's identifier may sit and still count as
# being ON THE COVER (the document is about this fund). Per-fund
# prospectus covers fit in ~1200 chars; title position only (~400) for
# annual reports and ticker-based lookups.
COVER_GATE = 1200
TITLE_GATE = 400
_last_request = 0.0
def sec_get(url: str, timeout: int = 120, retries: int = 3) -> bytes:
"""GET with SEC user agent, politeness delay and retry/backoff."""
global _last_request
for attempt in range(retries):
wait = REQUEST_DELAY - (time.monotonic() - _last_request)
if wait > 0:
time.sleep(wait)
_last_request = time.monotonic()
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": USER_AGENT})
try:
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as r:
return r.read()
except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
if e.code == 404:
raise
if e.code in (429, 500, 502, 503) and attempt + 1 < retries:
time.sleep(2.0 * (attempt + 1))
continue
raise
except (urllib.error.URLError, TimeoutError) as e:
if attempt + 1 < retries:
time.sleep(2.0 * (attempt + 1))
continue
raise
raise RuntimeError("unreachable")
def to_text(html: bytes) -> str:
"""Crude but adequate HTML -> text: block ends become newlines, tags go."""
t = re.sub(rb"<\s*(br|/p|/div|/tr|/h[1-6])[^>]*>", b"\n", html, flags=re.I)
t = re.sub(rb"<[^>]+>", b" ", t)
t = re.sub(rb"&#?\w+;", b" ", t)
t = t.decode("latin-1", "ignore")
t = re.sub(r"[ \t]+", " ", t)
t = re.sub(r"\n\s*", "\n", t)
# tag stripping eats apostrophes ("Fund s board") — fix the common ones
t = re.sub(r"\b(Fund|Trust|ETF) s\b", r"\1's", t)
# abbreviations whose dots would break sentence-level matching
for a, b in (("U.S.", "US"), ("U.K.", "UK"), ("E.U.", "EU"),
("e.g.", "eg"), ("i.e.", "ie"), ("No.", "No")):
t = t.replace(a, b)
return t
def ticker_to_company(ticker: str) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
"""ticker -> (cik, conformed company name) via browse-edgar (Atom output)."""
url = ("https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany"
f"&CIK={urllib.parse.quote(ticker.upper())}&type=&dateb="
"&owner=include&count=5&output=atom")
xml = sec_get(url, timeout=30).decode("latin-1", "ignore")
cik = re.search(r"<cik>(\d+)</cik>", xml)
name = re.search(r"<conformed-name>([^<]+)</conformed-name>", xml)
if not cik:
return None
return cik.group(1), (name.group(1) if name else "")
def cik_recent_filings(cik: str, types: str, count: int = 6) -> list[dict]:
"""Recent filings of a registrant (newest first) via the submissions API."""
url = f"https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK{int(cik):010d}.json"
d = json.loads(sec_get(url, timeout=60))
f = d.get("filings", {}).get("recent", {})
forms = f.get("form", [])
out = []
for i, form in enumerate(forms):
if form not in types.split(","):
continue
out.append({
"accession": f["accessionNumber"][i],
"form": form,
"filed": f.get("filingDate", [""] * len(forms))[i],
"doc": (f.get("primaryDocument") or [""] * len(forms))[i],
})
if len(out) >= count:
break
return out
def fts_search(query: str, forms: str | None = None, size: int = 20) -> list[dict]:
"""EDGAR full-text search.
Hits are sorted by relevance, then date: a fund's own prospectus ranks
above documents that merely mention the ticker (funds investing in it,
family fund lists). Relevance alone is not enough — section attribution
in extract_objective is the real guard — but ordering by it means the
first match is usually the right fund's.
"""
params = {"q": query, "forms": forms or "", "size": str(size)}
url = f"https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?{urllib.parse.urlencode(params)}"
d = json.loads(sec_get(url, timeout=60))
hits = d.get("hits", {}).get("hits", [])
out, seen = [], set()
for h in hits:
s = h.get("_source", {})
key = (s.get("adsh", ""), h.get("_id", "").split(":", 1)[-1])
if key in seen:
continue
seen.add(key)
out.append({
"score": h.get("_score", 0.0),
"accession": s.get("adsh", ""),
"filename": h.get("_id", "").split(":", 1)[-1],
"cik": (s.get("ciks") or [""])[0],
"form": s.get("form", ""),
"file_date": s.get("file_date", ""),
})
out.sort(key=lambda x: (x["score"], x["file_date"]), reverse=True)
return out
def doc_url(cik: str, accession: str, filename: str) -> str:
return (f"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/{int(cik)}"
f"/{accession.replace('-', '')}/{filename}")
_SEEK = (r"((?:the|its) (?:fund|trust|etf|portfolio)\s*\)?[^\.\n]{0,120}?"
r"seeks (?:to |investment results |investment objective)?"
r"[^.]{10,400}\.)")
def _name_re(name: str) -> str:
"""Pattern for a fund name; to_text() turns 'U.S.' into 'US', so the
dots are optional."""
return re.escape(name).replace(r"U\.S\.", r"U\.?S\.?")
# a name preceded by one of these is a REFERENCE to another fund (a
# leveraged ETF's cover says "200% of the performance of the Invesco
# QQQ Trust"), not the title of the document
_REF_BEFORE = re.compile(
r"(?:performance\s+of\s+|underlying\s+|index\s+of\s+|versus\s+|"
r"than\s+|against\s+|of\s+the\s+|the\s+)$", re.I)
def _name_titlelike(text: str, name: str, limit: int) -> bool:
"""True when the name appears in title position on the cover — not as
an underlying reference (see _REF_BEFORE)."""
for m in re.finditer(_name_re(name), text[:limit], re.I):
before = text[max(0, m.start() - 40):m.start()]
if not _REF_BEFORE.search(before):
return True
return False
def _on_cover(text: str, name: str | None, ticker: str | None,
limit: int = COVER_GATE) -> str | None:
"""Cover gate: is this document ABOUT the fund?
A fund's own registration statement puts its name (in title position)
or its ticker in parentheses on the cover page, within the first
~1200 characters. A document that merely mentions the fund elsewhere
(family fund lists, funds investing in it, exhibits) does not. Returns
'name' / 'ticker' / None.
"""
head = text[:limit]
if name and _name_titlelike(text, name, limit):
return "name"
if ticker and re.search(r"\(\s*" + re.escape(ticker.upper()) + r"\s*\)",
head, re.I):
return "ticker"
return None
def extract_objective(text: str, name: str, ticker: str | None = None,
gate: int = COVER_GATE) -> str | None:
"""Extract the fund's investment objective sentence from a document
that is about the fund (see _on_cover).
Returns None when the document is not about this fund (cover gate
fails) or no objective sentence is found — never another fund's.
"""
if not _on_cover(text, name, ticker, gate):
return None
heads = [m.start() for m in re.finditer(r"investment objective", text, re.I)]
if heads:
m = re.search(_SEEK, text[heads[0]: heads[0] + 2500], re.I)
if m:
return _clean(m.group(1))
m = re.search(_SEEK, text[:15000], re.I)
return _clean(m.group(1)) if m else None
def _clean(s: str) -> str:
# captures like "(the Fund) seeks to ..." leave a stray ')'
s = re.sub(r"^\)\s*", "", s)
s = re.sub(r"^((?:the|its) (?:fund|trust|etf|portfolio)"
r"(?: or (?:fund|trust|etf|portfolio))?)\s*\)\s*",
r"\1 ", s, flags=re.I)
s = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", s).strip()
if s[:1].islower():
s = s[0].upper() + s[1:]
return s
def classify_category(objective: str, name: str) -> str:
"""equity / fixed_income / mixed / alternatives / money_market / other.
Keyword rules over objective + fund name; deliberately transparent and
conservative (unknown -> 'other')."""
t = f"{objective} {name}".lower()
if re.search(r"money market", t):
return "money_market"
equity = bool(re.search(
r"equit|stocks?|common stock|capitalization|nasdaq.?100|s&p ?500 "
r"index|total stock market|russell ?2000", t))
bond = bool(re.search(
r"debt securit|bonds?\b|fixed.income|maturit|treasur|credit|yield|"
r"mortgage|interest.rate", t))
alt = bool(re.search(
r"commodit|derivatives|real estate|currenc|private (?:equity|credit)|"
r"hedge|bullion|precious metal|\bgold\b|\bsilver\b|\bcopper\b|"
r"\bnatural gas\b|\bcrude oil\b|\bwheat\b|\bcorn\b", t))
if equity and bond:
return "mixed"
if bond:
return "fixed_income"
if equity:
return "equity"
if alt:
return "alternatives"
return "other"
def accession_docs(cik: str, accession: str) -> list[str]:
"""All .htm files of a filing (family reports are split into parts)."""
url = (f"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/{int(cik)}"
f"/{accession.replace('-', '')}/index.json")
try:
d = json.loads(sec_get(url, timeout=60))
except Exception:
return []
return [it["name"] for it in d.get("directory", {}).get("item", [])
if it["name"].lower().endswith((".htm", ".html"))]
def _try_docs(hits: list[dict], name: str, ticker: str | None,
max_docs: int, gate: int) -> dict | None:
"""Fetch FTS hits (relevance order) and return the first document that
passes the cover gate and yields an objective sentence."""
fetched = 0
for h in hits:
if fetched >= max_docs:
break
# annual reports: the fund's part may be a sibling document of the
# same filing, so enumerate the accession's documents
names = [h["filename"]]
if h["form"] in ANNUAL_FORMS.split(","):
names += [n for n in accession_docs(h["cik"], h["accession"])
if n != h["filename"]]
for fn in names:
if fetched >= max_docs:
break
try:
raw = sec_get(doc_url(h["cik"], h["accession"], fn))
except urllib.error.HTTPError:
continue
fetched += 1
if len(raw) > MAX_DOC_BYTES:
continue
obj = extract_objective(to_text(raw), name, ticker, gate)
if obj:
return {
"objective": obj,
"category": classify_category(obj, name),
"form": h["form"],
"file_date": h["file_date"],
"url": doc_url(h["cik"], h["accession"], fn),
}
return None
def fetch_fund(fund_name: str, ticker: str | None = None,
max_docs: int = 8) -> dict | None:
"""Full pipeline for one fund. Returns metadata dict or None.
Passes, most direct first:
0. ticker -> registrant CIK (standalone trusts like Invesco QQQ
Trust / iShares Silver Trust): their most recent prospectus
filings, cover-gated;
1. fund-name search over prospectus forms — name in title position
or (TICKER) on the cover (COVER_GATE);
2. fund-name search over annual reports — name in title position
(TITLE_GATE);
3. ticker search over prospectus forms — (TICKER) in title position
(TITLE_GATE); catches funds whose registered name changed over
time.
Returns None rather than a wrong fund's objective.
"""
tk = ticker.upper() if ticker else None
if tk:
comp = ticker_to_company(tk)
if comp:
for fl in cik_recent_filings(comp[0], PROSPECTUS_FORMS, count=15):
if not fl["doc"]:
continue
try:
raw = sec_get(doc_url(comp[0], fl["accession"], fl["doc"]))
except urllib.error.HTTPError:
continue
if len(raw) > MAX_DOC_BYTES:
continue
obj = extract_objective(to_text(raw), fund_name, tk, COVER_GATE)
if obj:
return {
"objective": obj,
"category": classify_category(obj, fund_name),
"form": fl["form"],
"file_date": fl["filed"],
"url": doc_url(comp[0], fl["accession"], fl["doc"]),
}
q = f'"{fund_name}" "seeks"'
res = _try_docs(fts_search(q, PROSPECTUS_FORMS, size=100),
fund_name, tk, max_docs, COVER_GATE)
if res:
return res
res = _try_docs(fts_search(q, ANNUAL_FORMS, size=100),
fund_name, tk, max_docs, TITLE_GATE)
if res:
return res
if tk:
res = _try_docs(fts_search(f'"{tk}" "seeks"', PROSPECTUS_FORMS, size=100),
fund_name, tk, max_docs, TITLE_GATE)
if res:
return res
return None