Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this How To... episode, Bellingcat's Tech community lead Galen Reich explains how you can use Bellingcat’s Edgar tool for your financial investigations. You can use this tool to search for financial information for companies in the United States that are filed in the SEC database - that’s the United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission.
You can find the tool here:
github.com/bellingcat/EDGAR
Red our guide: bellingcat.com/resources/2023/12/18/new-tools-dig-deeper-into-hard-to-aggregate-us-corporate-data
Find the SEC database here: sec.gov/edgar/search
Other videos in our tech series: youtube.com/watch?v=ymCMy8OffHM
You can join our Discord server on this link: discord.gg/bellingcat
And you can find all of our open-source research tools on our GitHub at: github.com/bellingcat
Chapters:
Intro 00:00
Intro to the tool 00:21
Why the tool is useful for investigations 01:47
Walkthrough of the tool 02:34
Output of the tool 03:41
Ways to reach out to ask for help or contribute with future development 04:42
In this How To... episode, Bellingcat's Tech community lead Galen Reich explains how you can use Bellingcat’s Edgar tool for your financial investigations. You can use this tool to search for financial information for companies in the United States that are filed in the SEC database - that’s the United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission.
You can find the tool here:
github.com/bellingcat/EDGAR
Red our guide: bellingcat.com/resources/2023/12/18/new-tools-dig-deeper-into-hard-to-aggregate-us-corporate-data
Find the SEC database here: sec.gov/edgar/search
Other videos in our tech series: youtube.com/watch?v=ymCMy8OffHM
You can join our Discord server on this link: discord.gg/bellingcat
And you can find all of our open-source research tools on our GitHub at: github.com/bellingcat
Chapters:
Intro 00:00
Intro to the tool 00:21
Why the tool is useful for investigations 01:47
Walkthrough of the tool 02:34
Output of the tool 03:41
Ways to reach out to ask for help or contribute with future development 04:42
