Finviz News Scraper — Real-Time Market Headlines, Blogs & Tickers

Scrape curated financial market news and commentary from Finviz (finviz.com/news.ashx). Finviz curates the top breaking headlines across elite financial wires including Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Fox Business, ZeroHedge, MarketWatch, and Seeking Alpha.

Each headline is automatically enriched with Stock Tickers (e.g. AAPL, NVDA, TSLA, BTC) and automated Sentiment Classification (BULLISH, BEARISH, NEUTRAL).

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⚡ Why Use This Scraper?

• Zero Headless Browsers: Pure HTTP extraction runs in under 1 second per refresh.
• Top Financial Publishers Aggregated: Eliminates the need to maintain 10 separate scrapers for Bloomberg, WSJ, Reuters, Fox Business, and ZeroHedge.
• Stock Ticker Extraction: Extracts uppercase stock symbols and popular company mentions directly from titles.
• Market Sentiment Signals: Built-in heuristic detects bullish and bearish price momentum keywords.
• Pay-Per-Event (PPE): Ultra low-cost — only pay for the exact headlines you extract ($0.005 run start + $0.001875 per result).

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📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	Integer	100	Maximum headlines to scrape. Set to 0 for all available items (~180 items).
sections	Array	["news", "blogs"]	Which Finviz tables to scrape: news (major news wires) and/or blogs (market commentary).
tickers	Array	[]	Optional ticker filter (e.g., ["AAPL", "NVDA", "BTC"]). Returns all if empty.
proxyConfiguration	Object	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Optional proxy settings. Direct connection works without proxies.

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📤 Output Dataset Format

Every record stored in the dataset contains clean, structured metadata:

{
  "article_id": "finviz:4a8b79e2c1d0",
  "source": "finviz.com",
  "title": "Nvidia Surges to Record High as AI Chip Demand Accelerates",
  "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-...",
  "origin_publisher": "Bloomberg",
  "time_str": "10:42AM",
  "section": "news",
  "stock_tickers": ["NVDA"],
  "has_tickers": true,
  "sentiment_hint": "BULLISH",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-24T18:45:00Z"
}

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🤖 Ideal Use Cases

• Algorithmic Trading & Quants: High-frequency news sentiment analysis for automated execution.
• Market Monitoring Dashboards: Real-time aggregated feed of Wall Street commentary.
• AI & LLM Enrichment: Grounding financial LLMs and RAG pipelines in breaking market news.
• Discord / Telegram Trading Bots: Alert channels when specific tickers are mentioned in top headlines.