OpenInsider Scraper
Spider read openinsider.com in 1.0 s without a browser and returned 453 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "SEC Form 4 Insider Trading Screener -", "Latest Cluster Buys X" and "Latest Insider Buys X".
SEC Form 4 Insider Trading Screener - - OpenInsider* Top Officer Purchases Today* Top Officer Purchases Past Week* Top Officer Purchases Past Month* Top Insider Purchases Today* Top Insider Purchases Past Week* Top Insider Purchases Past Month* Top Insider Sales Past Month# SEC Form 4 Insider Trading Screener -All datesCustomLatest dayLast 3 daysLast 1 weekLast 2 weeksLast 1 monthLast 2 monthsLast 3 monthsLast 6 monthsLast 1 yearLast 2 yearsLast 4 yearsAll Sectors (except Funds)Agriculture, Forestry, FishMiningConstructionManufacturingTransportation & UtilitiesWholesale TradeRetail TradeFinancialServicesClosed-End FundsFiling DateTrade DateTicker SymbolTrade Value## Latest Cluster Buys |### XPharmaceutical PreparationsGbank Financial Holdings Inc.Surgical & Medical Instruments & ApparatusSavings Institutions, Not Federally CharteredBuilding Materials, Hardware, Garden SupplyInsurance Agents, Brokers & ServiceHeavy Construction Non-Bldg Contractors## Latest Insider Buys |### X## Latest Penny Stock Buys |### X## Insider Sales $100k+ |### XTractors & Farm Equipment Ltd## Insider Trading |### XChf Corp Affrs, Sustnblty OfcDerivative transaction in filing (usually option exercise)Multiple transactions in filing; earliest reported transaction date and weighted average transaction priceSale of securities on an exchange or to another personSale of securities on an exchange or to another person (after option exercise)Payment of exercise price or tax liability using portion of securities received from the companyPurchase of securities on an exchange or from another personThe same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on openinsider.com.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://openinsider.com/latest-insider-trading");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://openinsider.com/latest-insider-trading");
await page.content();
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const trades = [];
document.querySelectorAll("table.tinytable tbody tr").forEach(el => {
const filingDate = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(2) a")?.textContent?.trim();
const ticker = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(4) a")?.textContent?.trim();
const insiderName = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(5) a")?.textContent?.trim();
const title = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(6)")?.textContent?.trim();
const tradeType = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(7)")?.textContent?.trim();
const price = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(8)")?.textContent?.trim();
const value = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(11)")?.textContent?.trim();
if (ticker) trades.push({ filingDate, ticker, insiderName, title, tradeType, price, value });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: trades.length, trades: trades.slice(0, 20) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What openinsider.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000127 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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Start scraping openinsider.com.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.