Fintel API Overview

Welcome to Fintel's API documentation hub. Fintel is a leading financial intelligence platform, and our API provides programmatic access to the same institutional-grade data that powers our market-beating analysis tools. This guide outlines the financial data endpoints and capabilities you can integrate into your own applications.

What's Included in the API

The Fintel API is organized into several key functional areas:

Document Search & SEC Filing Access

Access our extensive repository of SEC filings with both basic and advanced search capabilities powered by ElasticSearch.

Basic Search: Simple interface for full-text searches across SEC documents
Advanced Search: Sophisticated querying with complete ElasticSearch query syntax
Real-time Indexing: Documents are indexed as they are submitted to the SEC

Ownership Data

Track institutional ownership, insider activities, and beneficial ownership disclosures.

Security Ownership: View institutions and funds reporting positions in securities
Institutional Holdings: Access holdings disclosed in 13F and N-PORT filings
Activist Filings: Monitor 13D/G filings for beneficial ownership disclosures
Insider Trades: Track recent insider trading activities
Owner History: Retrieve full ownership history for security/owner combinations

Market Indicators

Access key market sentiment data and trading indicators.

Short Volume: Retrieve short selling volumes and related metrics
ETF Flows: Monitor institutional flows in and out of ETFs
Options Activity: Track significant options trading patterns

Portfolio Management

Organize and track securities of interest.

StockLists: Create and manage collections of tickers
Team Collaboration: Share research, documents, and stocklists with team members
Documents & Notebooks: Manage research documents and collaborate with team members

What You Can Build

With the Fintel API, you can create powerful financial applications and tools:

LLM-Powered Financial Intelligence

Feed LLMs with structured financial data to generate accurate market insights
Build AI assistants that can answer questions about institutional ownership patterns
Create LLM-powered document summarization of SEC filings
Develop GPT agents that monitor and alert on significant ownership changes
Train custom financial models using our comprehensive data
Generate automated financial narratives explaining ownership trend shifts

Investment Research Platforms

Build comprehensive dashboards showing institutional ownership trends
Create alerts for significant ownership changes in your portfolio
Develop screeners that identify stocks with unusual institutional activity

Regulatory Compliance Tools

Monitor and track regulatory filings for specific companies or sectors
Receive notifications when new filings are submitted
Automate compliance workflows with real-time filing data

Portfolio Analytics

Track institutional ownership in your investment portfolio
Compare your holdings against institutional consensus
Identify potential investment opportunities based on smart money movements

Financial Content Services

Power financial news websites with ownership data
Create automated content based on significant institutional movements
Generate insights from insider trading patterns

Trading Algorithms

Incorporate institutional ownership signals into trading strategies
Leverage short volume data for market timing
Detect unusual trading activity through options flow analysis

Research Platforms

Build proprietary research notebooks with institutional-grade data
Facilitate collaboration among investment teams
Create custom reports combining various data sources

Asset Class Coverage

Our API provides data across multiple asset classes including:

Equities (28,000+ issues)
Debt (180,000+ issues)
MBS (137,000+ issues)
CDOs (46,000+ issues)
ABS (15,000+ issues)
And many more specialized asset types

For detailed documentation on specific endpoints, please continue to the relevant sections.