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# Datavidence Financials API

The Datavidence Financials API returns normalized US-GAAP financial statements and SEC submission metadata sourced from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings. It searches companies, lists recent filings, and retrieves financial statements for one company or a batch of companies in a single request. It also exposes revisions that compare as-reported figures against later restatements, and a usage endpoint for checking consumption.

## For AI agents

Retrieve normalized US-GAAP financial statements and SEC filing metadata for public companies, search companies, and compare as-reported figures against restatements.

## Scope

Does not handle trading, real-time market prices, or portfolio management. Use for retrieving SEC-sourced financial statements and filings only.

## Capabilities

- Retrieve normalized US-GAAP financial statements for a public company
- Fetch financial statements for many companies in a single batch request
- Search companies by name or ticker
- List recent SEC filings and submission metadata
- Compare as-reported figures against later restatements with the revisions data
- Check your current API usage

## Use cases

### Agent-Driven Financial Statement Retrieval

An AI agent performing fundamental analysis can pull a company's normalized US-GAAP income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow from the Datavidence Financials API, which sources them from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings. Because the figures are already normalized, the agent can compare companies without reconciling differing filing formats.

Example prompt: Fetch the GAAP financial statements for a given ticker and most recent fiscal year, then summarize revenue and net income

### Multi-Company Batch Screening

Research tools can request financial statements for many companies at once to screen a universe of tickers. The Datavidence Financials API returns normalized GAAP figures per company in a single batch call, so a screen does not need one request per company.

Example prompt: Request financial statements for a batch of tickers and rank them by net margin

### Restatement and Filing Monitoring

Compliance and audit workflows can track when reported figures are later restated and when new filings land. The Datavidence Financials API lists recent SEC submissions and exposes revisions that pair as-reported values with their restated versions, so a monitor can flag the exact line items that changed.

Example prompt: List recent SEC filings for a company and flag any line items that were restated

## Key endpoints

| Method | Path | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| GET | `/v1/extract-ledger` | Get financial statements |
| GET | `/v1/extract-ledger/batch` | Get financial statements for many companies |
| GET | `/v1/submissions` | List recent SEC filings |
| GET | `/v1/companies` | Search companies |
| GET | `/v1/revisions` | Get revisions, as reported versus restated |
| GET | `/v1/usage` | Check your usage |

## Key resources

- **Financial statements** — Retrieve normalized US-GAAP statements for one company or a batch of companies
- **Companies** — Search companies by name or ticker to find the right identifier
- **Submissions** — List recent SEC filings and their submission metadata
- **Revisions** — Compare as-reported figures against their later restated versions
- **Usage** — Check current API consumption against your plan

## AI readiness

This API is usable in Jentic One now. Its AI-readiness score against Jentic's framework shows where it stands today and where improvements would make it even easier for agents to use.

- **Score:** 61 / 100
- **Maturity:** AI-Aware
- **Dimensions:**
  - Foundational Compliance: 93 / 100
  - Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility: 61 / 100
  - AI-Readiness & Agent Experience: 41 / 100
  - Agent Usability: 94 / 100
  - Security: 50 / 100
  - AI Discoverability: 69 / 100
- **View full report:** https://jentic.com/apis/datavidence.ai/datavidence/scorecard
- **How the score is calculated:** https://docs.jentic.com/reference/api-readiness-framework/overview/
- **More about the dimensions:** https://docs.jentic.com/reference/api-readiness-framework/specification/#dimensional-model-overview

### Score it yourself

Every API in the directory is allowlisted, so you can re-score it with no key required.

- **Score your own API:** https://jentic.com/scorecard.md
- **Scoring CLI agent skill:** https://github.com/jentic/jentic-api-scorecard/blob/main/skills/jentic-api-scorecard/SKILL.md

```sh
npx @jentic/api-scorecard-cli score <openapi-url>
```

## Why Jentic

- **Setup:** Wiring the Datavidence Financials API by hand means managing its X-API-Key header, choosing between the direct host and the RapidAPI gateway, and parsing its normalized GAAP response envelope yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the API from the API Directory, store the key once, and your agent calls it.
- **Permission scoping:** The Datavidence Financials API takes the company and year as query parameters rather than in the URL path, so rules bound which operations your agent may call rather than which company. Limit it to the read operations it needs, such as fetching financial statements and searching companies, and leave out anything you did not include.
- **Credential handling:** Your Datavidence API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
- **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'get GAAP financial statements' or 'list recent SEC filings', and Jentic returns the matching Datavidence operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without reading the reference docs.

## Related APIs

- **SEC EDGAR** — SEC EDGAR serves the raw filing data that the Datavidence Financials API normalizes into GAAP statements.
- **Financial Datasets** — Financial Datasets provides company financials and fundamentals as an alternative source to the Datavidence Financials API.
- **Polygon.io** — Polygon.io supplies market prices and quotes that pair with the Datavidence Financials API's reported fundamentals.

## FAQ

### What authentication does the Datavidence Financials API use?

The Datavidence Financials API authenticates with an API key sent in the `X-API-Key` header, per its OpenAPI spec. A sandbox demo key returns fixed sample data, and live access is keyed per subscriber. Through Jentic the key is stored encrypted by your own Jentic One instance and injected at call time, so it never enters the agent's prompt or logs.

### Can I get GAAP financial statements with the Datavidence Financials API?

Yes. The extract-ledger operation returns normalized US-GAAP financial statements for a company and fiscal year, and a batch variant returns them for many companies in one request. You can also search companies and list their recent SEC filings to find the right identifier first.

### What are the rate limits for the Datavidence Financials API?

The OpenAPI spec does not publish specific rate limits. Live plans are metered per subscription, and you can check your current consumption with the usage operation; see the provider's pricing page at https://financials.datavidence.ai/pricing for the limits that apply to your plan.

### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Datavidence Financials API?

Yes. Every operation is a read, and the company and year travel as query parameters rather than in the URL path, so a rule bounds which operations the agent may call. Write a rule that allows only the statement-retrieval and company-search operations, so the agent can read financials and look up tickers and nothing else, and every call it makes is logged.

### How do I retrieve a company's financials with the Datavidence Financials API through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'get GAAP financial statements for a company' and it returns the extract-ledger operation with its input schema. Import the Datavidence Financials API from the Jentic API Directory, store your API key once, and your agent can fetch statements, run batch pulls, and list filings. To run it on your own infrastructure, install Jentic One from its GitHub repo.

### Where does the Datavidence Financials API get its data?

The data is sourced from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings and normalized into a consistent US-GAAP structure. Submission metadata and the revisions comparison come from the same filings, so you can trace a figure back to the filing it was reported in.