# Finviz News Scraper — Market Headlines & Blogs (`axery/finviz-news-tickers`) Actor

Scrape curated real-time financial news headlines and market blogs from Finviz across Bloomberg, Reuters, WSJ, and ZeroHedge with stock tickers and sentiment.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/axery/finviz-news-tickers.md
- **Developed by:** [Axery](https://apify.com/axery) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Business, AI
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.88 / 1,000 finviz headline with tickers

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

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

Scrape curated financial market news and commentary from **Finviz** ([finviz.com/news.ashx](https://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:

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

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

Maximum number of news headlines to extract. Set to 0 for all available items across news and blogs.

## `sections` (type: `array`):

Sections to scrape (news, blogs, or both).

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

Optional list of tickers to filter (e.g. AAPL, NVDA, TSLA, BTC). Leave empty for all articles.

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

Optional proxy settings. Direct HTTP requests work reliably without proxies.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "sections": [
    "news",
    "blogs"
  ],
  "tickers": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `news` (type: `string`):

Headlines with origin publishers, direct URLs, stock tickers, sections, and sentiment hints.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("axery/finviz-news-tickers").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("axery/finviz-news-tickers").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 '{}' |
apify call axery/finviz-news-tickers --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/G5PECmy1SR1YbemLr/builds/LxPYYZBrCSpdkwWOK/openapi.json