Bloomberg News Scraper

Pull the latest Bloomberg news as clean, structured records — headlines, summaries, authors, stock tickers, images, and publish times — across 13 Bloomberg sections. HTTP-only, fast, and built for AI agents (MCP-ready).

What it does

This actor reads Bloomberg's public section feeds and returns one structured record per article. It is a headline & summary news monitor, ideal for tracking what Bloomberg is publishing in near-real-time and keying that coverage to stock tickers.

For every article you get:

Field	Description
title	Article headline
summary	Bloomberg's article summary / dek
url	Canonical Bloomberg article URL
authors	List of author names
publishedAt	Publish time (ISO 8601, UTC)
section	Source section (e.g. markets, crypto)
tickers	Stock-symbol tags, e.g. ["NMS:IREN"] (not every article has them)
imageUrl	Lead image URL
imageCaption	Image caption, when present
guid	Stable unique article id (the URL)
scrapedAt	When this run captured the item (ISO 8601)

Each run also writes a machine-readable OUTPUT record to the default key-value store with the selected sections, filters, feed counts, dataset item count, charged article count, estimated event cost, and final status message.

When to use it

• Finance / markets monitoring — watch Bloomberg coverage for specific tickers (AAPL, TSLA, IREN).
• News agents & LLM pipelines — a clean JSON feed of Bloomberg headlines to summarize, classify, or alert on.
• Topic tracking — filter the feeds by keyword (AI, Fed, oil) across sections.
• Dashboards & newsletters — a recurring source of fresh Bloomberg headlines with images.

When NOT to use it

• Full article body text is not included. Bloomberg article pages are paywalled and bot-protected; this actor returns the headline, summary, and metadata that Bloomberg publishes in its own feeds — not the full copyrighted article body.
• It is not a search of Bloomberg's entire archive. It returns the latest articles currently in the section feeds (roughly the most recent 25–100 items per section).

Sections available

markets, technology, politics, business, economics, wealth, green, crypto, pursuits, industries, citylab, equality, businessweek

Input

{
  "sections": ["markets", "technology"],
  "searchKeywords": ["AI", "Fed"],
  "tickers": ["AAPL", "NVDA"],
  "sinceHours": 24,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Input	Type	Default	Notes
sections	array	["markets"]	One or more sections to pull.
searchKeywords	array	[]	Keep only articles whose headline/summary contains a keyword (case-insensitive).
tickers	array	[]	Keep only articles tagged with one of these stock symbols.
sinceHours	integer	0	Only articles newer than N hours. 0 = no time filter.
maxItems	integer	100	Hard cap on articles scraped & billed.
proxyConfiguration	object	off	Optional. Feeds work without a proxy; only enable on transient blocks.

Output sample

{
  "title": "AI Cloud Provider IREN Gets Logo on Golden State Warriors Jerseys",
  "summary": "The latest sign of the AI data center boom going mainstream...",
  "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/ai-neocloud-iren-...",
  "authors": ["Dina Bass"],
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-25T13:00:00.000Z",
  "section": "technology",
  "tickers": ["NMS:IREN"],
  "imageUrl": "https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/.../1200x-1.jpg",
  "imageCaption": "An IREN badge will adorn Warriors game jerseys.",
  "guid": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/ai-neocloud-iren-...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-25T19:19:05.527Z"
}

Pricing

Pay-per-event:

• Actor start: $0.00005 per run
• Article scraped: $0.003 per article returned

A typical 100-article run costs about $0.30. You are only charged for articles actually returned — empty/filtered runs cost effectively nothing.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is MCP-ready. Point any MCP client at the Apify MCP server and the tool returns structured Bloomberg news for a query. Narrow input (sections + filters) in, clean JSON out, predictable per-article cost.

Run via API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/khadinakbar~bloomberg-news-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"sections":["markets","crypto"],"tickers":["BTC"],"maxItems":50}'

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('khadinakbar/bloomberg-news-scraper').call({
  sections: ['technology'],
  searchKeywords: ['AI'],
  maxItems: 50,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

FAQ

Does it return the full article text? No. Bloomberg article bodies are paywalled and bot-protected. This actor returns the headline, summary, author, tickers, image, and publish time that Bloomberg publishes in its public feeds.

Do I need a proxy? No. The feeds respond fine without one. A proxy option exists only as a fallback for transient network issues.

Why are some articles missing tickers or images? Not every Bloomberg article carries stock-symbol tags or a lead image. Those fields are populated when present and null/empty otherwise.

How fresh is the data? Feeds reflect Bloomberg's latest published articles, typically updated continuously through the day.

Legal

This actor collects only publicly available data from Bloomberg's own public RSS/section feeds. It does not bypass paywalls and does not return full paywalled article bodies. Headlines, summaries, and article metadata remain the property of Bloomberg L.P. You are responsible for ensuring your use of the data complies with Bloomberg's Terms of Service and applicable law, including copyright. Use the output for monitoring, research, and indexing — not for republishing Bloomberg's content as your own.