# Benzinga Financial News — Tickers, Categories & Earnings (`axery/benzinga-financial-news`) Actor

Scrape Benzinga financial news with stock tickers, categories (earnings, analyst-ratings, M\&A, IPO), author, and body text. Filter by ticker or channel. No API key required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/axery/benzinga-financial-news.md
- **Developed by:** [Axery](https://apify.com/axery) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 benzinga financial article extracteds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Benzinga Financial News Scraper — Tickers, Categories & Earnings

Scrape financial news from **Benzinga** — the leading source for real-time market news used by brokers (TD Ameritrade, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers) and hedge funds.

### What it returns

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `article_id` | Unique article ID (`benzinga:{id}`) |
| `title` | Headline |
| `published_at` | UTC ISO-8601 timestamp |
| `url` | Article URL |
| `author` | Author name |
| `stock_tickers` | Ticker symbols tagged by Benzinga (e.g. `["AAPL", "NVDA"]`) |
| `has_tickers` | `true` if article mentions any stocks |
| `categories` | Benzinga channels: `earnings`, `analyst-ratings`, `mergers-acquisitions`, `ipos`, `economics`, etc. |
| `teaser` | Short lead paragraph |
| `body` | Full article body (HTML-stripped) |
| `scraped_at` | When this run fetched the record |

### Input options

- **`maxItems`** — Cap on results (default 100, `0` = all pages)
- **`tickers`** — Filter to specific stocks: `["AAPL", "TSLA", "NVDA"]`
- **`channel`** — Filter by category: `earnings`, `analyst-ratings`, `ipos`, etc.
- **`proxyConfiguration`** — Proxy settings (Residential recommended)

### Use cases

- **Algorithmic trading** — Feed earnings surprises and analyst upgrades into trading signals
- **Sentiment analysis** — Classify article sentiment per ticker for AI/ML pipelines
- **Portfolio monitoring** — Get alerts when any of your held stocks appear in news
- **M\&A tracking** — Monitor `mergers-acquisitions` channel for deal flow
- **Options flow** — Combine with analyst-ratings for pre-earnings positioning

### No API key needed

Benzinga's public news API is used directly — no registration, no rate-limit issues for reasonable usage.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Cap on articles returned. `0` walks all available pages.

## `tickers` (type: `array`):

Keep only articles mentioning these tickers. E.g. AAPL, TSLA, NVDA. Sent to the Benzinga API as a server-side filter.

## `channel` (type: `string`):

Filter by Benzinga news channel/category.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy settings. Residential IPs recommended for reliable access.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "tickers": [
    "AAPL",
    "NVDA"
  ],
  "channel": "",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing output records.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("axery/benzinga-financial-news").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxItems": 100 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("axery/benzinga-financial-news").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 100
}' |
apify call axery/benzinga-financial-news --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,axery/benzinga-financial-news"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/7pVb9EP3qfVpOMjEq/builds/0t3bLeONNKrvM6AYM/openapi.json