# Morningstar Scraper (`crawlerbros/morningstar-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Morningstar - stock and ETF quotes with intraday and yearly price data, market cap, volume, pre/post-market prices, plus top gainers/losers/actives. Search by company name or fetch by ticker or quote URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/crawlerbros/morningstar-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Crawler Bros](https://apify.com/crawlerbros) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, Integrations
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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# README

## Morningstar Scraper

Scrape **Morningstar** — stock and ETF quotes with intraday and yearly price ranges, market cap, volume, pre/post-market prices, plus top gainers / losers / most-active lists. Search by company name or ticker, fetch by ticker + exchange, or pull quotes directly from a morningstar.com URL. Runs in a headless browser to pass Morningstar's anti-bot challenge; no account or API key required.

### What this actor does

- **Four modes:** `search`, `byTicker`, `byUrl`, `movers`
- **Quote data:** last price, net change, % change, day/year high-low, bid/ask, open, previous close
- **Size data:** market cap, volume, average volume, currency
- **Pre/post-market:** preMarket and postMarket prices and changes
- **Movers:** top gainers, top losers, and most-active lists (US market hours)
- **Empty fields are omitted**

### Output per quote (mode = `search` / `byTicker` / `byUrl`)

- `symbol` — `exchange:ticker` (e.g. `xnas:aapl`)
- `ticker`, `name`, `exchange`, `exchangeName`
- `lastPrice`, `netChange`, `percentNetChange`
- `previousClosePrice`, `openPrice`
- `dayHighPrice`, `dayLowPrice`, `yearHighPrice`, `yearLowPrice`
- `bidPrice`, `askPrice`
- `preMarketPrice`, `preMarketNetChange`, `postMarketPrice`, `postMarketNetChange`
- `marketCap`, `volume`, `averageVolume`
- `tradingStatus`, `currency`, `performanceID`
- `quoteUrl`, `recordType: "quote"`, `scrapedAt`

### Output per mover (mode = `movers`)

- `moverGroup` — `gainers` / `losers` / `actives`
- `rank`, `ticker`, `name`, `exchange`, `exchangeName`, `symbol`
- `lastPrice`, `netChange`, `percentNetChange`, `volume`, `marketCap`
- `recordType: "mover"`, `scrapedAt`

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `mode` | string | `search` | `search` / `byTicker` / `byUrl` / `movers` |
| `searchQuery` | string | `apple` | Company name or ticker (mode=search) |
| `securityType` | enum | `stock` | `stock` / `etf` universe (mode=search) |
| `exchange` | enum | `xnas` | `xnas` / `xnys` / `xase` / `xotc` (mode=byTicker) |
| `tickers` | array | – | Tickers on the selected exchange (mode=byTicker; one exchange per run — use `startUrls` for a mixed-exchange batch) |
| `startUrls` | array | – | Quote URLs (mode=byUrl) |
| `moversGroup` | enum | `gainers` | `gainers` / `losers` / `actives` (mode=movers) |
| `minPrice` / `maxPrice` | number | – | Filter by last price |
| `minPercentChange` / `maxPercentChange` | number | – | Filter by % change |
| `maxItems` | int | `50` | Hard cap (1–500) |

#### Example: search a company and get quotes

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "apple",
  "maxItems": 5
}
```

#### Example: quotes for specific tickers

```json
{
  "mode": "byTicker",
  "exchange": "xnas",
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "GOOGL"]
}
```

#### Example: top gainers above 5%

```json
{
  "mode": "movers",
  "moversGroup": "gainers",
  "minPercentChange": 5,
  "maxItems": 20
}
```

#### Example: quote by URL

```json
{
  "mode": "byUrl",
  "startUrls": [
    {"url": "https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/xnas/aapl/quote"},
    {"url": "https://www.morningstar.com/etfs/arcx/ivv/quote"}
  ]
}
```

Stock and ETF URLs both work; hyphenated ticker slugs (e.g. `xnys/brk-b`) are resolved to their canonical API tickers automatically.

### Use cases

- **Trading dashboards** — one-shot quote snapshots with day and year ranges
- **Screening** — filter by price and % change across search results and movers
- **Portfolio monitoring** — daily runs on your ticker list
- **Market commentary** — top movers with volumes and market caps
- **Research pipelines** — enrich security IDs (`performanceID`) for further Morningstar lookups

### FAQ

**Is Morningstar's data free?**  The quote, search and movers data used here comes from Morningstar's public website endpoints. No account, API key or payment is required.

**Why does this actor need a browser?**  Morningstar protects its API with an AWS WAF challenge. A headless browser solves the challenge automatically on the first page load, after which all data endpoints work normally. This is transparent to you.

**Why are movers sometimes empty?**  Morningstar only publishes gainers/losers/actives about 15 minutes after US markets open. Runs before market open or after hours return a clean 0-record result with a status message.

**Why are some prices fractional (e.g. `308.91`)?**  Morningstar reports real-time prices in the listed currency. Prices are returned as numbers; missing fields are omitted.

**What is `performanceID`?**  Morningstar's internal security identifier (e.g. `0P000000GY`). Useful for cross-referencing Morningstar's own pages.

**Can I get mutual funds or bonds?**  Currently the actor covers stocks and ETFs. Funds, indexes and bonds use a different Morningstar identifier scheme and are not yet supported.

**How fresh is the data?**  Live — every run queries Morningstar's realtime quote service.

**Is this affiliated with Morningstar?**  No. This is an independent third-party actor using Morningstar's public website.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to fetch.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Company name or ticker, e.g. `apple`, `tsla`, `vanguard` (mode=search).

## `securityType` (type: `string`):

Stock or ETF universe (mode=search).

## `exchange` (type: `string`):

Primary exchange used for ticker lookups (mode=byTicker).

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

Stock/ETF ticker symbols on the selected exchange, e.g. `AAPL`, `MSFT`.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Morningstar quote URLs, e.g. `https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/xnas/aapl/quote` or `https://www.morningstar.com/etfs/arcx/ivv/quote`.

## `moversGroup` (type: `string`):

Which movers list to fetch (mode=movers). Available ~15 minutes after US market open.

## `minPrice` (type: `number`):

Only emit quotes with last price >= this value.

## `maxPrice` (type: `number`):

Only emit quotes with last price <= this value.

## `minPercentChange` (type: `number`):

Only emit quotes with percent change >= this value (e.g. 2.5).

## `maxPercentChange` (type: `number`):

Only emit quotes with percent change <= this value.

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

Hard cap on emitted records.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "apple",
  "securityType": "stock",
  "exchange": "xnas",
  "tickers": [],
  "moversGroup": "gainers",
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `quotes` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing all scraped Morningstar quotes and movers.

# 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 = {
    "mode": "search",
    "searchQuery": "apple",
    "securityType": "stock",
    "exchange": "xnas",
    "tickers": [],
    "moversGroup": "gainers",
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("crawlerbros/morningstar-scraper").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 = {
    "mode": "search",
    "searchQuery": "apple",
    "securityType": "stock",
    "exchange": "xnas",
    "tickers": [],
    "moversGroup": "gainers",
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("crawlerbros/morningstar-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "apple",
  "securityType": "stock",
  "exchange": "xnas",
  "tickers": [],
  "moversGroup": "gainers",
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call crawlerbros/morningstar-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=crawlerbros/morningstar-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Y94kJMopIFDfzT5cV/builds/jvDsX86Qzn7oHRNMd/openapi.json