Wall Street Journal (WSJ) News Scraper — Markets & Business Tickers 📰📈

Extract real-time financial news, market-moving headlines, and economic coverage from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) — the gold standard of global business and financial journalism — with automatic stock ticker tagging and market sentiment signals.

No login, no browser overhead, zero authentication required.

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🌟 Key Features

• Authoritative Dow Jones Feeds: Scrape across WSJ Markets, US Business, Technology, World News, and Opinion.
• Automated Stock Ticker Tagging: Identifies major equity, index, and crypto tickers (NVDA, TSLA, AAPL, MSFT, BTC) mentioned in headlines and article leads.
• Instant Sentiment Classification: Real-time sentiment signal (BULLISH, BEARISH, NEUTRAL) for automated algorithmic filtering and risk assessment.
• Rich Article Metadata: Extracts article GUIDs, publication timestamps (UTC ISO-8601), direct WSJ URLs, and Dow Jones article types.
• Ultra-Fast & Reliable: Lightweight HTTP-only feed architecture ensures runs finish in seconds with minimal memory.

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📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxItems	Integer	No	100	Maximum number of articles to extract (0 = all available).
feeds	Array of Strings	No	["markets", "business"]	WSJ feeds to scrape: all, markets, business, tech, world, opinion.
tickers	Array of Strings	No	[]	Optional ticker filter (e.g. ["AAPL", "NVDA", "TSLA"]).
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Optional proxy settings (direct connection works reliably).

Example Input

{
  "maxItems": 50,
  "feeds": ["markets", "business", "tech"],
  "tickers": ["NVDA", "AAPL", "MSFT"]
}

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📤 Sample Output

{
  "article_id": "wsj.com:WP-WSJ-0002354015",
  "source": "wsj.com",
  "title": "Stocks Sink in Broad AI Rout Sparked by China's DeepSeek",
  "published_at": "2025-01-27T19:26:00Z",
  "url": "https://www.wsj.com/articles/nikkei-may-rise-as-weak-yen-raises-earnings-hopes-776a8056?mod=rss_markets_main",
  "category": "markets",
  "article_type": "Stocks",
  "stock_tickers": ["NVDA"],
  "has_tickers": true,
  "sentiment_hint": "BEARISH",
  "description": "U.S. stocks were mostly lower, with the Nasdaq leading declines as makers of AI infrastructure suffered steep falls, many in the double digits. Nvidia was down 16%.",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-22T06:55:00Z"
}

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🎯 Ideal Use Cases

• Real-Time Financial Sentiment & AI/RAG: Feed WSJ market headlines into LLMs for hedge fund and institutional research.
• Earnings & Breaking News Alerts: Monitor executive leadership changes, M&A filings, and earnings reports before trading sessions.
• Macroeconomic & Federal Reserve Tracking: Track interest rate commentary, central bank policy shifts, and labor statistics.
• Trading Algorithm Triggers: Filter for ticker-specific headlines during market hours to drive automated order execution.

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💰 Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

• Actor Start: $0.005 per run
• Article Scraped: $0.001875 per item (under $1.90 per 1,000 articles)