Finance News Scraper

Scrape financial news articles from Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Reuters, and CNBC. Filter by stock ticker, company name, sector, or keyword. Returns full article text, auto-detected ticker mentions, and structured metadata — ready for financial analysis pipelines.

Why Use This Actor?

Feature	This Actor	Polygon.io News	Alpha Vantage	Benzinga Pro
Price	$3.90/1K (PPE)	$29-199/mo	Free (limited)	$99-199/mo
Pay-per-use	Yes	No (subscription)	No	No
Full article text	Yes	Snippet only	Snippet only	Yes (premium)
Financial sources	5 major	20+ aggregated	50+ headlines	Benzinga only
Ticker extraction	Yes	Built-in	Built-in	Built-in
Zero-config	Yes	API key required	API key required	Account required

No subscription, no API key, no commitment. Pay only for articles you scrape.

How to Use

Latest financial news (default):

{
  "keywords": ["stock market"]
}

Ticker-specific news:

{
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "TSLA"],
  "dateRange": "7d"
}

Sector research:

{
  "sectors": ["healthcare"],
  "dateRange": "30d",
  "maxArticlesTotal": 200
}

Daily portfolio monitor (schedule daily):

{
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "GOOGL", "AMZN"],
  "dateRange": "1d",
  "sources": ["yahoo_finance", "reuters", "cnbc"]
}

Input Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
tickers	string[]	[]	Stock ticker symbols (e.g. ["AAPL", "TSLA"])
companies	string[]	[]	Company names to search for
keywords	string[]	["stock market"]	General keywords
sectors	string[]	[]	Market sectors: technology, healthcare, finance, energy...
sources	string[]	all 4	yahoo_finance, marketwatch, bloomberg, reuters, cnbc
maxArticlesPerSource	integer	25	Articles per source (max 200)
maxArticlesTotal	integer	100	Total cap (max 1000)
dateRange	string	"7d"	1d, 3d, 7d, 14d, 30d
includeFullText	boolean	true	Full article body. Set false for headlines-only
extractTickers	boolean	true	Auto-detect stock tickers in articles
deduplicateArticles	boolean	true	Remove cross-source duplicates

Output Format

{
  "title": "Apple Reports Record Q4 Revenue",
  "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/...",
  "source": "yahoo_finance",
  "sourceDomain": "finance.yahoo.com",
  "author": "John Smith",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-11T09:30:00.000Z",
  "category": "Earnings",
  "sector": "technology",
  "articleText": "Apple Inc. reported record fourth quarter revenue...",
  "articleSnippet": "Apple Inc. reported record fourth quarter revenue of $124.3 billion...",
  "wordCount": 854,
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "MSFT"],
  "isOpinion": false,
  "isPremium": false,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-11T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Tips and Advanced Usage

Combine with Sentiment Analyzer for market signal detection:

1. Run Finance News Scraper with tickers: ["AAPL"]
2. Pipe articleText fields into Sentiment Analyzer
3. Get sentiment scores for every article mentioning AAPL

Daily scheduled monitoring: Set up an Apify scheduled run with dateRange: "1d" to get fresh articles every morning.

Bloomberg articles: Set proxyConfiguration to residential proxy for better Bloomberg coverage.

Not financial advice: Article data is for research purposes only. Verify information against primary sources before making financial decisions.

Pricing

Pay-Per-Event: $0.0039 per article scraped ($3.90 per 1,000 articles)

Pricing includes all platform compute costs — no hidden fees.

Scenario	Articles	Cost
Daily portfolio check (20 articles)	20	$0.08
Weekly market roundup (100)	100	$0.39
Daily monitoring × 30 days	3,000	$11.70
AI training dataset (10,000)	10,000	$39.00

Integration Examples

Export to Google Sheets for daily reporting: Use the Apify Google Sheets integration to automatically append new articles to a spreadsheet each day. Combine with scheduled runs for a hands-free morning briefing.

Feed into LLM-based analysis: Pipe articleText into OpenAI, Claude, or any LLM to generate summaries, extract key financial metrics, or classify articles by impact level. The structured output format makes it easy to batch-process articles programmatically.

Multi-ticker alerting: Run with a list of portfolio tickers and use Apify webhooks to trigger Slack/email notifications when new articles match your holdings. Combined with sentiment analysis, you can filter for high-impact negative coverage only.

Related Actors

• News Sentiment Analyzer — NLP-powered sentiment scoring for financial articles
• Google News Scraper — Broader news monitoring across all topics
• Earnings Call Scraper — SEC EDGAR transcripts and financial filings

FAQ

Which financial news sources are supported?

Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, Bloomberg (public articles), Reuters, and CNBC. RSS feeds are used for discovery.

Can I get historical articles from months ago?

The actor fetches current articles from RSS feeds. Use dateFrom / dateTo parameters for custom date ranges within the RSS feed's history (typically 30-90 days).

How does ticker detection work?

Tickers are detected by $TICKER prefix and by context (adjacent to stock-related words like "shares", "stock", "Inc"). Common words are filtered to reduce false positives.

Does it handle paywalled articles?

Yes — paywalled articles are flagged with isPremium: true and articleText: null. Metadata (title, author, date) is still extracted.

Can I filter out opinion pieces?

Yes — all articles have isOpinion: boolean. Filter your results by isOpinion: false for hard news only.