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VerityData Feed Descriptions

Depending on your product and subscription choices, you have access to one or more of the VerityData feeds. This documentation provides technical information on the content of those feeds, to help you use them in your business solutions.

To find information on a specific feed, choose from the list of feeds available. Depending on your screen size and browser, this list is present either in the "hamburger menu" or the sidebar to the left of this text.

You can also use the Next/Previous buttons at the bottom of the page (or the "N" and "P" keys on the desktop) to page through the various feeds available.

Obtaining the Feeds

Feed information is generated daily, and new feeds should be available by 7:30 am EST if there was any market activity the previous day. Feeds are occasionally available earlier than this time. If you need intra-day feed information, contact your Verity representative or datafeeds@verityplatform.com.

The data contained in the feed varies from feed to feed, and several are available in more than one of these types. See the individual feed pages to see what's available.

  • Full or Partial History: These provide a "snapshot" of transactions over a specified period (usually "since inception" or "quarters") that depends on the feed.

  • New Inserts: These are new records which became available since the last feed. If you are maintaining a database corresponding to the feed data, these records can simply be appended. Note that inserts become available in the first feed update after after the time of filing (which is not necessarily the time the event took place.)

  • Edits: These are existing records that have changed due to subsequent filings: they can be cancellations, extensions, additional information, stock splits, plan closures or re-opens, estimated values that now have final ones, etc. The exact reasons will vary slightly from feed to feed.

Note: Upon request, insert/edit feeds can be provided as daily full history.

Feed Data

Data is provided by website downloads or SFTP transfer.

The feeds are provided in standard formats depending on the feed, but we can provide most of them in CSV (with any reasonable user-selected delimiter), JSON, Excel Spreadsheet/XLSX, or Parquet files on request. The 10K/10Q files describe filings with more complex structures and are available only in JSON.

By default, "Comma"-separated value (CSV) files are actually pipe (|) delimited, as commas occur frequently in the source material. We clean the data to prevent the delimiter character from occurring inside field data.

Some of these files—particularly full history files—are very large. These files will be provided in a compressed format.

Dates and Times: Unless specified otherwise, date and timestamps are YYYY-MM-DD and HH:MM:SS.mmm. They are in EST outside of U.S. Daylight Saving, and EDT during Daylight Saving periods.

Boolean Values: Boolean values in the feeds are typically represented as "Y" (Yes, true) or "N" (No, false). Some fields use the presence or absence of a value for this; see the Data Dictionaries for more information.