Motley Fool Earnings Call Transcripts Scraper

Scrape earnings call transcripts from Motley Fool's free archive. Extracts full transcript text (prepared remarks + Q&A), call participants, company ticker, fiscal quarter, published date, and article metadata. Archive spans 2007 to present with ~1,000–1,500 new transcripts per earnings quarter.

What it does

The actor operates in two modes:

Direct URL mode — provide specific transcript URLs and get results immediately. No sitemap walking, no date filtering.

Discovery mode — walk Motley Fool's monthly XML sitemaps for a configured year range (startYear–endYear), filter to transcript URLs, and extract each one. Supports optional ticker filtering.

For each transcript the actor extracts:

• Company name, ticker symbol, and exchange (e.g., NASDAQ)
• Fiscal quarter label (e.g., Q1 2026)
• Date of the earnings call
• Article publication date (ISO 8601)
• Author / transcript editor name
• Headline from structured data
• List of call participants with their roles
• Full transcript text
• Prepared remarks (pre-Q&A portion)
• Q&A section (from first analyst question onward)
• AI-generated summary (when present)

Use cases

• Build earnings sentiment analysis pipelines
• Train LLMs on executive communication and financial language
• Track company-specific commentary across quarters
• Monitor guidance language and forward-looking statements
• Research competitor disclosures by ticker

Input

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	String list	Specific transcript URLs to scrape. When provided, bypasses sitemap discovery entirely.
startYear	Integer	Earliest publication year for discovery mode. Default: current year.
endYear	Integer	Latest publication year for discovery mode (inclusive). Default: current year.
tickerFilter	String	Only return transcripts matching this ticker symbol (e.g., AAPL). Case-insensitive. Leave blank for all tickers.
maxItems	Integer	Maximum number of transcripts to return. 0 = no limit.

Direct URL example

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2026/05/09/maravai-mrvi-q1-2026-earnings-transcript/",
    "https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2026/04/30/twilio-twlo-q1-2026-earnings-transcript/"
  ],
  "maxItems": 5
}

Discovery mode example (all transcripts from Q1 2026)

{
  "startYear": 2026,
  "endYear": 2026,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Ticker filter example

{
  "startYear": 2020,
  "endYear": 2026,
  "tickerFilter": "AAPL",
  "maxItems": 0
}

Output

Each dataset record has these fields:

Field	Description
article_url	Full URL of the Motley Fool transcript article
article_slug	URL slug, e.g. maravai-mrvi-q1-2026-earnings-transcript
company_name	Company name extracted from slug, e.g. Maravai
ticker	Stock ticker symbol, e.g. MRVI
exchange	Stock exchange, e.g. NASDAQ
fiscal_quarter	Fiscal quarter label, e.g. Q1 2026
call_date	Date of the earnings conference call, e.g. May 7, 2026
published_date	Article publication date (ISO 8601), e.g. 2026-05-09T20:15:31.000Z
author	Transcript editor or contributor name
headline	Article headline from structured data
canonical_url	Canonical URL from the article
summary	AI-generated summary paragraph (when present)
call_participants	List of participants in Role — Name format
transcript_full	Full conference call transcript text
prepared_remarks	Text of the prepared remarks portion (before Q&A)
qa_section	Text of the Q&A portion (from first analyst question onward)

Sample record

{
  "article_url": "https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2026/05/09/maravai-mrvi-q1-2026-earnings-transcript/",
  "article_slug": "maravai-mrvi-q1-2026-earnings-transcript",
  "company_name": "Maravai",
  "ticker": "MRVI",
  "exchange": "NASDAQ",
  "fiscal_quarter": "Q1 2026",
  "call_date": "May 7, 2026",
  "published_date": "2026-05-09T20:15:31.000Z",
  "author": "Motley Fool Transcribing",
  "call_participants": [
    "Chief Executive Officer — Trey Martin",
    "Chief Financial Officer — Kevin Herde",
    "Analyst — Derik De Bruin"
  ],
  "prepared_remarks": "...",
  "qa_section": "...",
  "transcript_full": "..."
}

Performance

• No proxy required — Motley Fool's transcript pages are publicly accessible
• Default concurrency: 3 parallel requests (conservative for Cloudflare CDN)
• Archive size: ~80k–120k transcripts historically; ~1,000–1,500 new per earnings season
• Sitemap for a single month contains 1,000–1,500 entries (processed in-memory)

Pricing

Pay-per-result pricing: $0.10 per start + $0.001 per transcript.

• 100 transcripts: ~$0.20
• 1,000 transcripts: ~$1.10
• Full quarterly archive (~1,500 transcripts): ~$1.60

Notes

• Only transcript articles are scraped — /earnings/call-transcripts/ URL path
• The tickerFilter applies only in discovery mode; in direct URL mode, all provided URLs are fetched
• Transcripts with no Q&A section (rare) have qa_section as an empty string and prepared_remarks as the full text
• The actor does not follow pagination links on listing pages; it uses sitemaps for scalable discovery