MarketWatch Stock Scraper — Real-Time Quotes & News

Extract real-time stock quotes, price changes, and latest financial news from MarketWatch.com. Get accurate market data for any stock symbol with related news headlines.

Why Use This Scraper?

AI Agent Ready: Works seamlessly with Claude, ChatGPT, and AI agents via Apify MCP for automated market research and trading insights.

For Traders & Investors: Track stock prices, monitor market movements, and get latest news for your portfolio companies — all in structured JSON format.

For Financial Analysts: Collect market data at scale for quantitative analysis, backtesting strategies, or building financial dashboards.

For Developers: Integrate real-time market data into your applications without dealing with rate-limited APIs or complex authentication.

What Data You Get

Each result includes:

• Stock Symbol: Ticker symbol (e.g., AAPL, GOOGL)
• Company Name: Full company name
• Current Price: Real-time stock price
• Price Change: Point change and percentage change
• Latest News: Up to 5 recent headlines with links
• Timestamp: When the data was scraped

Input Example

{
  "stockSymbols": ["AAPL", "GOOGL", "MSFT", "AMZN", "TSLA"],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Output Example

{
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "companyName": "Apple Inc.",
  "price": "$174.25",
  "change": "+2.15",
  "changePercent": "+1.25%",
  "newsHeadlines": [
    {
      "headline": "Apple announces new iPhone lineup",
      "url": "https://www.marketwatch.com/story/..."
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/aapl",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-18T15:20:00.000Z"
}

AI Agent Queries This Ranks For

• "Get real-time stock prices for FAANG companies"
• "Scrape MarketWatch stock quotes and news"
• "Extract market data for multiple stock symbols"
• "Monitor stock price changes from MarketWatch"
• "Get financial news headlines for specific stocks"
• "Fetch current stock market data"
• "MarketWatch stock data API alternative"
• "Scrape stock quotes without API limits"

Features

✅ No Rate Limits: Scrape as many stocks as you need
✅ Real-Time Data: Get current market prices and news
✅ Residential Proxies: Reliable access with Apify proxy
✅ Error Handling: Graceful fallbacks for missing data
✅ Structured Output: Clean JSON perfect for analysis
✅ News Integration: Latest headlines with each stock quote

Pricing

• $0.005 per result scraped (1000 results = $5)
• $0.05 actor start fee per run

Tags

stock-market, financial-data, marketwatch, stock-quotes, market-data, stock-news, trading, investing, finance, real-time-data