# MarketWatch News Scraper — Headlines & Stock Tickers (`axery/marketwatch-news-tickers`) Actor

Scrape MarketWatch news headlines with automatic stock ticker extraction. Covers top stories, markets news, and the full news archive. Filter by ticker or category. No login required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/axery/marketwatch-news-tickers.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 marketwatch 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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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.
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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

## MarketWatch News Scraper — Headlines & Stock Tickers

Scrape **MarketWatch** — one of the most trusted sources for stock market news, financial analysis, and economic data — with automatic stock ticker extraction.

### What it returns

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `title` | Article headline |
| `published_at` | UTC ISO-8601 timestamp |
| `url` | Direct article URL |
| `author` | Author name (from RSS feeds) |
| `category` | Article category: `markets`, `investing`, `economy-politics`, etc. |
| `stock_tickers` | Tickers automatically extracted from URL, title, and keywords |
| `has_tickers` | `true` if any stocks mentioned |
| `keywords` | MarketWatch tags/keywords |
| `description` | Article teaser/description |

### Feed sources

| Feed | Description |
|---|---|
| `sitemap` | Full news archive — thousands of articles with pub dates |
| `top` | Top Stories RSS — real-time breaking news |
| `markets` | Market Pulse RSS — markets-specific news feed |
| `all` | Merge all three feeds (deduplicated) |

### Input options

- **`maxItems`** — Article limit (default 100, `0` = all)
- **`feed`** — Source feed: `sitemap`, `top`, `markets`, `all`
- **`tickers`** — Filter to articles mentioning specific stocks: `["AAPL", "TSLA"]`
- **`categories`** — Filter by section: `["markets", "investing"]`
- **`proxyConfiguration`** — Proxy settings

### Use cases

- **Daily market briefing** — Scrape top stories for a trading dashboard
- **Stock-specific news** — Filter by ticker for portfolio monitoring
- **Sentiment analysis** — Feed headlines into NLP/LLM sentiment models
- **Market research** — Track coverage of specific sectors or companies

# Actor input Schema

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

Cap on articles returned. `0` returns all available articles.

## `feed` (type: `string`):

Which MarketWatch feed to scrape.

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

Only return articles mentioning these stock tickers. E.g. AAPL, TSLA, NVDA.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Filter by article category: markets, investing, economy-politics, technology, personal-finance.

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

Apify Proxy settings. Residential IPs recommended.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "feed": "all",
  "tickers": [
    "AAPL",
    "NVDA"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "markets",
    "investing"
  ],
  "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/marketwatch-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 = { "maxItems": 100 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("axery/marketwatch-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 '{
  "maxItems": 100
}' |
apify call axery/marketwatch-news-tickers --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,axery/marketwatch-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/1ZK7FO9BFz281cY84/builds/J0gJTfCAF9CsT4Hsj/openapi.json