Seeking Alpha API News & Dividend Data
Pricing
from $3.00 / 1,000 dataset items
Seeking Alpha news, dividend data and parsed earnings as a clean, deduped JSON API. Per-ticker fetch (40 recent articles + author, date, comments + yield/ex-div + 37-year dividend history). Delta feed — only NEW items since your last run. Pay-per-use $5/1k. Alternative to Alpha Vantage / Tiingo.
article_id
Optional
Seeking Alpha article ID (stable, source primary key).
headline
Optional
Article headline. Null when includeRawHeadline=false.
url
Optional
Source URL on seekingalpha.com. Null when includeRawHeadline=false.
slug
Optional
URL slug. Null when includeRawHeadline=false (kebab-cased headline would otherwise leak it).
date_iso
Optional
Absolute ISO-8601 publish timestamp; null when only a relative date was visible at scrape time.
date_raw
Optional
Raw scraped date string (relative or absolute, source verbatim).
company
Optional
Canonical company name extracted from the headline (dict-anchored, never wrong-guess; null when no known company starts the headline).
tickers
Optional
Tickers — page ticker first (authoritative for per-ticker fetch), then resolver-derived from the headline. De-duplicated.
category
Optional
Single-label content type. Coarser analysisType filter maps news+regulatory+m_and_a → news bucket.
earnings
Optional
Structured EPS/revenue when the headline matches an SA earnings template; null otherwise.
signal
Optional
Derived from earnings beat/miss + headline raise/cut. Default 'neutral' on no info.
signal_confidence
Optional
Bounded heuristic confidence; capped at 0.95 — never claims certainty.
source
Required
Source provenance (e.g. 'seekingalpha.com').
scraped_at
Required
UTC ISO-8601 timestamp (...Z) when this record was scraped.
content_hash
Required
Stable sha256 over {article_id, title, date_iso}. The dedup key for the delta feed.
data_completeness
Required
Honest scope — which fields this record actually carries. News path: headline_only / headline_metadata / full. Dividends path: scorecard (T-DIV.3) or scorecard_with_history (T-DIV.4 includeHistory=true).
paywalled_fields
Optional
Fields the source paywalls that we do NOT deliver (e.g. full_body, quant_rating). Honest contract.
is_new_since_last_run
Optional
True if this content_hash wasn't in the SeenStore at the start of this run (T10 delta feed). Null when no delta store was active.
ticker
Optional
Single ticker symbol (dividend records only; news records use tickers[]).
source_url
Optional
Source URL on seekingalpha.com (dividend records). News records use url.
yield_fwd
Optional
Dividend Yield (FWD) as fraction (0.35% -> 0.0035). Dividend records only.
annual_payout_usd
Optional
Annual Payout (FWD) in USD. Dividend records only.
payout_ratio
Optional
Payout-to-earnings ratio as fraction. Dividend records only.
growth_5y_cagr
Optional
5-year dividend CAGR as fraction. Dividend records only.
years_of_growth
Optional
Consecutive years of growth (e.g. 13). Dividend records only.
latest_dividend_usd
Optional
Most recently announced dividend amount in USD. Dividend records only.
ex_dividend_date
Optional
Ex-dividend date in ISO yyyy-mm-dd. Dividend records only.
payout_date
Optional
Payout date in ISO yyyy-mm-dd. Dividend records only.
record_date
Optional
Record date in ISO yyyy-mm-dd. Dividend records only.
declare_date
Optional
Declare date in ISO yyyy-mm-dd. Dividend records only (may be null for pre-1989 historical payouts).
frequency
Optional
Payout cadence — quarterly | monthly | annual | semi_annual | ... . Dividend records only.
history
Optional
Past dividend payouts newest-first (only when includeHistory=true; T-DIV.2b).
comments_count
Optional