A daily Form D feed on Apify, built without a browser

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Hi all,

I built an Apify Actor that collects the new US Form D filings every business day. For each filing it gives you the company name, industry, state, how much money they want to raise, how much they already raised, and a link to the filing.

I made it because I wanted a simple way to follow new funding rounds every day, without checking the SEC site by hand.

It does not use a browser. It reads the public sec.gov files directly, slowly (4 requests per second) and with a clear User-Agent. I used the Apify SDK and not Crawlee, because there is nothing to render.

A few things took more work than I thought:

• Most filings each day are investment funds, so the Actor skips them by default.
• Amended filings are marked and duplicates are removed.
• Names of people are left out unless you turn them on.

Disclosure: I am the maintainer, and it is a paid Actor (pay per result):
https://apify.com/clearpath-data/us-private-funding-rounds

I would be happy to get feedback, especially on how it handles amended filings.