Seeking Alpha Scraper — Valuation, Dividends, Ratings

Seeking Alpha Scraper — Dividends, Ratings & Company Profiles

Extract stock analysis data from Seeking Alpha — dividend history, company overviews, analyst ratings, and company profiles. No API key required. Pay per result.

Use cases

• Dividend research: Build a dividend income tracker by pulling 2 years of payment history for your watchlist (amount, ex-date, pay-date, frequency).
• Stock screener data: Enrich a portfolio spreadsheet with live P/E ratio, market cap, 52-week range, and analyst consensus ratings.
• Financial monitoring: Automate alerts when sector, employees, or description data changes for target companies.
• Quant / AI pipelines: Feed structured stock metadata into LLM analysis, ML models, or data warehouses without paying $25–599/mo for official data APIs.

Input

Field	Type	Description
tickers	string[]	Stock ticker symbols, e.g. AAPL, MSFT, TSLA, NVDA
dataTypes	string[]	What to fetch: overview, dividends, profile (default: overview)
maxItems	integer	Max total records. 0 = no limit (default: 100)
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. RESIDENTIAL recommended

Output

Overview record

{
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "data_type": "overview",
  "name": "Apple Inc.",
  "price": 192.35,
  "currency": "USD",
  "market_cap": 4428825400000,
  "shares_outstanding": 14687356000,
  "pe_ratio": 36.55,
  "pe_ratio_fwd": 34.47,
  "ps_ratio": 9.88,
  "pb_ratio": 41.53,
  "ev_ebitda": 27.30,
  "eps_ttm": 8.25,
  "dividend_yield_ttm": 0.35,
  "dividend_yield_fwd": 0.36,
  "payout_ratio": 12.58,
  "dividend_growth_5y": 4.69,
  "roe": 141.47,
  "gross_margin": 47.86,
  "net_margin": 27.15,
  "revenue_growth_yoy": 12.76,
  "week52_high": 317.4,
  "week52_low": 195.07,
  "return_1y_pct": 47.87,
  "wall_st_rating": 4.02,
  "analyst_price_target": 310.51,
  "analysts_buy": 23,
  "analysts_hold": 15,
  "analysts_sell": 1,
  "quant_overall_rank": 695,
  "quant_sector_rank": 108,
  "sa_authors_count": 14,
  "sector": "Information Technology",
  "industry": "Technology Hardware, Storage and Peripherals",
  "parse_confidence": "HIGH",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-09T10:00:00Z"
}

wall_st_rating is the Wall-Street analyst consensus (1 = strong sell … 5 = strong buy). quant_*_rank are Seeking Alpha's Quant ranks (lower = stronger). sa_authors_* (not shown in full above) is the SA contributor rating distribution: strong_buy / buy / hold / sell / strong_sell counts.

Dividend record

{
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "data_type": "dividends",
  "amount": 0.25,
  "currency": "USD",
  "ex_dividend_date": "2026-02-07",
  "payment_date": "2026-02-13",
  "frequency": "quarterly",
  "parse_confidence": "HIGH",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-09T10:00:00Z"
}

Notes

• Uses Seeking Alpha's internal v3 API (headless, no browser required)
• Anti-bot resilient: rotates to a fresh RESIDENTIAL IP per ticker on any PerimeterX block (up to 6 tries) — reliable on large batches
• Polite ~1s pacing between requests per ticker

💰 Pricing & how we compare

Pay-per-result (PPE): $19 / 1K snapshots ($0.019 each). You are billed per ticker-snapshot actually returned — plus the tiny apify-actor-start fee Apify waives for short runs. No subscription, no API key, no proxy fee on top.

Our edge: ONE dense snapshot per ticker (50+ fields) — price, market cap, PE (GAAP/non-GAAP/fwd), P/S, P/B, EV/EBITDA, EPS, dividend yields + payout + 5y growth, ROE, gross/net margin, revenue growth, 52-week range, 1y/YTD return, Wall-St analyst rating (1–5) + price target + buy/hold/sell, SA Quant ranks, SA Authors rating distribution, sector/industry — not one row per article. No rival returns this consolidated valuation snapshot.

Pricing examples (pay only for what you get, minus Apify's 20%):

Volume	Cost
100 snapshots	$1.90
1,000 snapshots	$19.00
10,000 snapshots	$190.00

How rivals price the same job (live Apify Store, checked 2026-06-09)

Actor	Their price	What they lack vs us
parseforge/seekingalpha-scraper	$0.021 / result	per-article rows, not a consolidated ticker snapshot
fortuitous_pirate/seekingalpha-stock-analysis-scraper	$0.02 + $0.15 start	1★, per-article
doesaiknow/seeking-alpha-api-news-dividend-data	$0.005 / item	cheaper but news/dividend feed, not a valuation snapshot

Prices above are competitors' live Store prices at the time of writing; ours is set to sit just below the strongest comparable while returning richer, quality-scored data.

🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is agent-ready (category MCP_SERVERS). Point any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, n8n AI, LangGraph) at it:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=bovi/seeking-alpha-scraper",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}