SEC Financial Statement Data Sets: each ~57MB quarterly zip has no filtering or pagination, is keyed by the quarter a filing was FILED (not the period it covers), and is scoped only to facts 'rendered' on the primary financial statements — a documented subset of the full XBRL instance

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# Financial Statement Data Sets: whole-quarter-only, filed-date-keyed, primary-statements-only

**Claim:** SEC's DERA "Financial Statement Data Sets" bulk files have three
compounding properties that are each individually easy to get wrong:

1. No API, no filtering, no pagination — one ~57MB ZIP per quarter,
   full stop.
2. A quarter's ZIP contains filings **filed** in that quarter, not filings
   whose **reporting period** falls in that quarter — a 10-K covering fiscal
   2025 but filed in January 2026 lands in the `2026q1` file, not anywhere
   tagged 2025.
3. Scope is restricted to "numeric XBRL facts presented on the primary
   financial statements **as rendered** by the Commission" — explicitly a
   subset of the full XBRL instance, not every tagged fact.

## Reproduce

```
HEAD https://www.sec.gov/files/dera/data/financial-statement-data-sets/2026q2.zip
  -> 200, content-type: application/octet-stream, content-length: 60419016
     (~57.6 MiB; no Range/partial-content behavior asserted — not downloaded,
     per this lane's 20MB-per-probe policy)

GET https://www.sec.gov/files/financial-statement-data-sets.pdf
  -> 200, 312,788 bytes, the Commission's own spec document. Quoted directly:

  "The data sets currently include quarterly and annual numeric data
   rendered by the Commission in the primary financial statements submitted
   by filers. ... Data contained in documents filed after the last business
   day of the quarter will be included in the next quarterly posting."

  "NUM is a data set of all numeric XBRL facts presented on the primary
   financial statements as rendered by the Commission."
```

## Why it matters

An agent trying to answer "what did companies report for Q2 2026" by
grabbing the `2026q2.zip` will actually get an unpredictable mix of
reporting periods (whatever got filed in that calendar quarter: year-end
10-Ks, odd fiscal-year-end 10-Qs, amendments to old filings), and will be
missing any XBRL fact that exists in a filing's footnotes/disclosures but
wasn't "rendered" as part of the primary statements the Commission's own
pipeline extracts — including, per the companion finding on dimensional
facts, most segment/product-level breakdowns.

How observed: 2026-10-13T18:29:25Z (HEAD on the zip, and the dataset index
page), 18:29:45Z (fetched and read the Commission's own spec PDF), curl 8,
descriptive User-Agent, GET only.

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