Google Finance Scraper

Extract public quote, session-statistic, and company-profile data directly from Google Finance. The Actor uses lightweight HTTP requests, produces one source-backed record per quote, and does not require a browser.

Features

• Regular-session price, change, change percentage, currency, and market status
• Optional after-hours price and change
• Open, high, low, market cap, volume, dividend, P/E ratio, and 52-week range when Google exposes them
• Company profile text and public facts such as CEO, employee count, founded date, headquarters, and sector
• Multiple symbols, deterministic normalization, deduplication, retries, and strict no-result failure
• Direct networking by default with optional Apify or custom proxy configuration

Input

{
    "queries": ["AAPL:NASDAQ", "NSE:RELIANCE", "MSFT"],
    "defaultExchange": "NASDAQ",
    "maxItems": 3,
    "hl": "en",
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

Use Google's canonical SYMBOL:EXCHANGE form (AAPL:NASDAQ), the common exchange-first form (NSE:RELIANCE), or a plain symbol. Plain symbols use defaultExchange; they are not guessed from search results. Duplicate normalized identifiers are removed before crawling.

Field	Type	Default	Description
queries	string[]	["AAPL:NASDAQ"]	One to 100 quote identifiers
maxItems	integer	20	Maximum unique normalized quotes, 1–100
defaultExchange	string	NASDAQ	Exchange used for plain symbols
hl	string	en	Google Finance interface language; English preserves the documented stat labels
proxyConfiguration	object	direct/no proxy	Optional Apify or custom proxy configuration

If proxy use is explicitly requested but cannot be configured, the Actor fails instead of silently switching routes.

Output

Required identity and provenance fields are symbol, exchange, companyName, price, query, sourceUrl, sourceDomain, provenance, and scrapedAt. Optional market fields include currency, change, changePercent, afterHoursPrice, marketStatus, open, high, low, marketCap, averageVolume, volume, peRatio, dividend, week52High, week52Low, and allStats. Company information is returned in about and companyDetails.

Values are preserved as Google displays them (for example $319.70, 4.67T, or +1.63%) so currency symbols, units, and abbreviations are not silently misinterpreted. This Actor provides public-source data, not investment advice.

Local development

npm ci --ignore-scripts
npm test
apify run --purge --input-file qa-inputs/google-finance-scraper/local.json
npm run validate