# SGX Announcements Watcher — Singapore Exchange Filings (`cynix_dev/sgx-announcements-watcher`) Actor

Monitor SGX company announcements — every filing on the Singapore Exchange, extracted with date, issuer, title and the direct PDF link. Browser-based extraction that gets past SGX's bot protection. Filter by issuer and date range.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/cynix\_dev/sgx-announcements-watcher.md
- **Developed by:** [Cynix Dev](https://apify.com/cynix_dev) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

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# README

## SGX Announcements Watcher — Singapore Exchange Filings

Monitor **SGX company announcements** — every filing on the Singapore Exchange, extracted with date, issuer, title and the direct PDF link. Browser-based extraction that gets past SGX's bot protection. Filter by issuer and date range.

### What it does

Listed companies on the Singapore Exchange must publish price-sensitive information as announcements: earnings, disclosures of interest, buy-backs, catalyst events. Each announcement links to a PDF on links.sgx.com.

SGX's underlying JSON API sits behind Akamai bot protection and rejects datacenter traffic outright. This Actor loads the official announcements page in a real headless browser through proxy, waits for the SPA to render, and extracts the rows — so you get the same filings a trader sees in the browser.

### Features

- **Real browser extraction** — survives SGX's anti-bot stack that blocks plain HTTP clients.
- **Direct PDF links** — every record carries its links.sgx.com document URL.
- **Issuer filter** — watch a single company or a watchlist substring (e.g. `DBS`).
- **Date-range aware** — pull the last N days of filings, 1–30.
- **Proxy by default** — ships configured for Apify proxy groups; override with your own.
- **Clean, flat records** — date, issuer, title, PDF URL. Nothing else.

### What people use it for

- Compliance monitoring — get every filing for companies you are invested in or advise on.
- Event-driven research — catch catalysts (buy-backs, placements, CEO changes) as they are filed.
- NLP pipelines — feed announcement titles + PDFs into summarisation or alerting systems.
- IR and media monitoring — track what listed companies in a sector are disclosing.
- Audit trails — archive who announced what, when, with source URLs.

### Why a browser instead of the API

The SGX website renders announcements client-side and fetches them from an API that sits behind Akamai's bot manager. Requests without a real browser fingerprint are denied at the edge — regardless of tokens or headers. Rather than fight the WAF, this Actor runs Playwright through a proxy, which is exactly how a human sees the page.

#### Practical tips

- Give the Actor **at least 2 GB RAM** — Chromium inside the container needs it.
- Keep `daysBack` short for scheduled monitoring; widen it only for backfills.
- `issuerFilter` matches substrings, so `bank` catches several issuers at once.
- Announcement titles carry SGX's category prefix split by `::` — split on it if you want category and headline separately.

### Input

`daysBack` controls the window (1–30 days). Set `issuerFilter` to a case-insensitive substring to watch specific companies. Raise memory to 2 GB+ if you increase `maxItems` — the browser needs headroom.

| Field | Type | Default | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `daysBack` | integer | `2` | How many days of announcements to fetch (1-30). Range 1–30. |
| `issuerFilter` | string | — | Only return announcements whose issuer name contains this text (case-insensitive). Leave empty for all issuers. |
| `maxItems` | integer | `200` | Maximum number of announcements to return. Range 1–5000. |
| `proxy` | object | `{"useApifyProxy": true, "groups": ["BUYPROXIES94952", "StaticUS3"]}` | Proxy settings. SGX blocks datacenter IPs, so a proxy is required. Defaults to Apify BUYPROXIES94952 / StaticUS3 groups. |

#### Input example

```json
{
  "daysBack": 2,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "groups": [
      "BUYPROXIES94952",
      "StaticUS3"
    ]
  }
}
```

### Output

One record per announcement: `ann_date`, `issuer`, `title` and `pdf_url`. Titles include the SGX category prefix (e.g. `General Announcement::…`, `Coupon Payment::Mandatory`).

Every dataset record contains: `pdf_url`.

Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or JSONL from the Console, or pull it programmatically through the Apify API and any of the official clients.

### How to use it

1. Click **Try for free** (or **Start** if you already have an Apify account).
2. Fill in the input fields described above — the defaults already produce a working run.
3. Press **Start** and watch the log; results stream into the dataset as they are found.
4. When the run finishes, open the **Output/Storage** tab and export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Runs can be scheduled (hourly, daily, weekly) and wired into Slack, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, webhooks or your own backend through Apify integrations. Everything the Console does is also available over the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2).

### FAQ

#### Why do I need a proxy for SGX?

SGX denies non-browser traffic from datacenter IPs at the CDN level. A proxy with clean IPs lets the headless browser through reliably.

#### Does it download the PDFs?

It returns the direct links.sgx.com URL for each filing. Feed those URLs to any downloader if you need the documents themselves.

#### Which filings are covered?

Everything on the public company-announcements page: general announcements, disclosures of interest, buy-backs, coupon payments, AGM minutes and more.

#### How fresh is the data?

As fresh as the live page — schedule runs every few minutes for near-real-time monitoring.

#### What memory should I allocate?

2 GB or more. The headless browser is the bulk of the footprint.

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### Legal and responsible use

This Actor collects only publicly available information. You are responsible for how you use the data, including compliance with the target site's Terms of Service, robots directives, copyright, and data protection law such as GDPR and CCPA. Do not use it to gather personal data without a lawful basis.

### Support and feedback

Found a bug, hit a site change, or need an extra field? Open a ticket on the **Issues** tab of this Actor — issues are read and fixed. Feature requests and custom-scraper enquiries are welcome through the same channel.

# Actor input Schema

## `daysBack` (type: `integer`):

How many days of announcements to fetch (1-30).

## `issuerFilter` (type: `string`):

Only return announcements whose issuer name contains this text (case-insensitive). Leave empty for all issuers.

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

Maximum number of announcements to return.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. SGX blocks datacenter IPs, so a proxy is required. Defaults to Apify BUYPROXIES94952 / StaticUS3 groups.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "daysBack": 2,
  "issuerFilter": "",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "groups": [
      "BUYPROXIES94952",
      "StaticUS3"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing all scraped 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("cynix_dev/sgx-announcements-watcher").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("cynix_dev/sgx-announcements-watcher").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 '{}' |
apify call cynix_dev/sgx-announcements-watcher --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,cynix_dev/sgx-announcements-watcher"
        }
    }
}

```

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/Ak4VfzioffhaW1jmQ/builds/iObb8CUcOq5qghOHb/openapi.json