Bloomberg Law EDGAR search

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A Bloomberg-specific profile of ui-json-capture: drive the logged-in browser at human pace and keep the JSON the page already receives. Load browser-automation (port 9222, mcp__chrome-devtools__*) and read ui-json-capture for the procedure and its Red Flags.

<EXTREMELY-IMPORTANT> **Never call the JSON API yourself** (`fetch`, `curl`, replayed POSTs) — bulk use of it is plainly against Bloomberg's terms. Click the UI; capture what it returns. Before paging at all: read the facet counts on page 1, and prefer the results list's own CSV export (`allow_csv: true` in the response) when a filtered slice fits its cap. </EXTREMELY-IMPORTANT>

Why this route

Measured against SEC EFTS, WRDS web and wrds_sec_search: Bloomberg matches per exhibit (option "Exhibits Only"), runs unstemmed (stemmed_search: false), tolerates extraction glitches ("Non -Competition" still matched), and has Terms & Connectors: "phrase", ^"case-sensitive", ! and * wildcards, N/x, NP/x, S/, P/, ATLx(), ATMx(). Coverage from 1994; ~19.6M EDGAR documents.

Login

The browser is often signed out. Credentials are the 1Password item Bloomberg Law (UVA) (vault "Shared with Agents"); handle them only inside a dispatched agent, never in the main thread.

Fields: input#username, input#password. A bare #username matches the <m-text-field> wrapper first. Enter Input.insertText after focusing; React ignores .value.
Enter does not submit. Click the button whose text is Sign In; it lands on bloomberglaw.com/start.

Search

Form: https://www.bloomberglaw.com/start#advanced-search/features_edgar_all_search/features_edgar_all_search (Keywords; Apply To = Forms & Exhibits / Forms Only / Exhibits Only; Forms; Exhibits; Exhibit title; filer, CIK, company, location, SIC, file number). The favorite link may need one reload.
Install scripts/01-install-hook.js before clicking Search, so page 1 is captured.

Wire facts (observed, not for calling)

POST /product/blaw/api/v1/search/criteria, body {"criteria":{"model":"features_edgar_all_search","term":…,"keywords_apply_to":"edgar_exhibit","page_size":50,"page":N}}. Page 1 is the form submit; page N comes from the pager. Filter clicks hit the same endpoint with new criteria; the hook keys each page by criteria-minus-page, so check __cap.queries holds exactly one query before assembling.
Response: results_page.components.documents.items[] (50 per page; id, title like "WOLFSPEED, INC.; Form 10-K; EX-10.21", date, metadata filer, subtitles file number / filed / period / form, extracts with <mark> hits); .remote_count total (the UI shows "1000+"); components.facets.items[] (form family, form type, exhibit type, company, SIC) with counts.
Paging is an in-app route change (URL /product/blaw/search/results/<criteria_id>, same document), so the hook persists. Next control: svg[data-testid="search-results-next-page"], disabled="true" on the last page; click it with a dispatched MouseEvent.

Capture

scripts/01-install-hook.js and scripts/02-run-pager.js here; 03-status.js, 04-dump.js, 05-stop.js and assemble.py from ui-json-capture/scripts/ unchanged:

python3 ~/.claude/skills/workflows/skills/ui-json-capture/scripts/assemble.py \
  --batches scratch/blaw --glob 'batch_*.json' --out data/raw/blaw_hits.jsonl \
  --expect-total <remote_count> --page-size 50 --id-field id

From hits to EDGAR (accession, full text)

A hit carries no accession or CIK. scripts/resolve_exhibits.py resolves an assemble.py file:

uv run --script ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/resolve_exhibits.py --hits data/raw/blaw_hits.jsonl \
  --out-dir data/processed/blaw --cache-dir data/raw/edgar_sgml \
  --phrase "consulting agreement" --phrase "non-competition"    # phrases optional

Join on WRDS: keys go up as parameter arrays (pgdata is a hot standby: no TEMP tables) and join server-side to registrant (file no.), filing_view (date, form prefix) and wrds_forms (wrdsfname), so only ids and paths come back, never filing text.
Files via rclone: raw submissions from wrds:/wrds/sec/archives by wrdsfname, cached; over 10,000 files it uses edgar.md's server-side tar. --ignore-checksum is deliberate: the default md5 check opens an ssh session per file on the login node, and exhausted it at 16 transfers.
Parse locally: one pass over the SGML <DOCUMENT> blocks gives TYPE, DESCRIPTION, FILENAME and text for every hit, with no per-hit query.

hits_resolved.jsonl / .parquet: Bloomberg fields, match_status (unique / resolved_by_exhibit / ambiguous / unmatched), resolved_by (type → exact title form → DESCRIPTION → extract text), doc_match, accession, cik, filename, sec_url, text_path, chars, extract_found, phrase_verification. Title quirks it handles: normalized form drops /A (the title keeps it); EX-99: EX-99.1 is TYPE: DESCRIPTION; EX-10.6 2 is the DESCRIPTION of the second EX-10.6; Rule 425 Communications = 425.

Measured on 295 hits: WRDS join 1–27 s; 277 submissions = 2.62 GB by rclone in 27 s; parse + extract ~20 s. 294 resolved, 1 unmatched (CB/A: absent from the WRDS tables). Exhibit text equals sec.gov's document minus its SGML header line in 275/275 checked.

Run a first pass on extracts alone; send only positives and unsure rows to a full-text pass.

Filters

Results-page facets are <label> elements (click the label, not the a11y checkbox node); each click is a new query. Form type lands in criteria as "facets":{"normalized_form_type":["Form 8-K"], "form_family":[], "display_exhibit_type":[], "cik":[], "sic":[]}. A facet slice under 1,000 needs no date filter: capture it whole and filter locally. Date presets sit under [data-testid="date-selector-preset-dropdown-button"] (Any, Single date, Date range, Last 7/30 days, Last 12 months, Last 5 years) and land as e.g. "date_type":"last_5_years".

Verified: three-phrase query, Exhibits Only, Form 8-K → 356 hits, 8 pages captured by the pager in ~4 min, assemble.py exit 0 (no gaps, 356 unique ids).

Not yet verified

Whether paging continues past result 1,000; the CSV export's row cap; the field names for a custom date range.

blaw-edgar-search

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