MarketWatch News Scraper — Headlines, Authors & Dates

MarketWatch Stock Quote & News Scraper turns MarketWatch's public news feeds into structured dataset records: headline, description, author, publish time, image and story URL for each article. It is built for market-news monitoring, research pipelines and AI agents that need fresh MarketWatch headlines as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Current status (2026-10-27): the news-feed mode (newsFeeds) returns data and is the Console default. MarketWatch quote, search and article pages (symbols, searchQueries, startUrls) currently answer automated requests with an access challenge (HTTP 401). The Actor does not bypass challenges, so those pages are reported as blocked, write no records and charge no result events. A run in which every requested source is blocked ends as failed.

Extracted fields

Record	Fields
Article (news feeds)	headline, description, publishedAt, author, imageUrl, url
Quote (quote pages, currently blocked)	symbol, companyName, price, change, changePercent, currency, url

Every record also has recordType, source and scrapedAt. Story URLs are returned without tracking parameters, and a story that appears in two feeds is delivered once.

Input

• newsFeeds: one or more of topstories, realtimeheadlines, bulletins and marketpulse (MarketWatch's public RSS feeds).
• symbols, startUrls, searchQueries: MarketWatch quote, article and search pages. These are currently challenge-protected; see the status note.
• maxResults (1–500, default 50) caps the records and therefore the result charge. maxPages (1–100) caps the pages opened.

{ "newsFeeds": ["topstories", "realtimeheadlines"], "maxResults": 20 }

A call with no feed, symbol, URL or search query is rejected before any request. Proxy settings from older saved inputs (useApifyProxy, proxyGroups, a proxy URL) are accepted but ignored.

Output and failure behavior

Each record is one default-dataset item. The SUMMARY key-value record holds status (completed, empty, blocked, rejected or failed), the records delivered, the result events charged, pages visited, the stop reason, warnings and blocked URLs. Blocked pages are never retried on other IP addresses and never produce fabricated records.

{
  "recordType": "article",
  "url": "https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-house-the-kids-college-and-the-raise-where-people-in-their-30s-and-40s-go-wrong-69ec6c90",
  "headline": "The house, the kids’ college and the raise: Where people in their 30s and 40s go wrong",
  "description": "Big life decisions in your 30s and 40s will determine just how well you retire.",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-27T13:51:00.000Z",
  "author": "Kurt Supe",
  "imageUrl": "https://images.mktw.net/im-15921386",
  "source": "marketwatch"
}

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify Store event prices:

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold, Platinum, Diamond	When it is charged
apify-actor-start	$0.006251	$0.006094	$0.005938	$0.005	Once per started GB of Actor memory (the default 1 GB run is one event).
apify-default-dataset-item	$0.025646	$0.025004	$0.024363	$0.020516	Once for each MarketWatch record written to the default dataset.

Blocked, failed or rejected sources write no records and are not charged as results. The run stops cleanly when your maximum charge is reached. Apify platform usage for this Actor run is included alongside the event prices above; no separate per-run platform-usage fee is passed to users.

Compliance

Use this Actor only for public content and in accordance with MarketWatch terms, robots directives, applicable law and your data-use rights. It never bypasses authentication, paywalls, CAPTCHA or other access controls. Do not submit credentials, cookies or personal data.

FAQ

Why are my quote or search pages reported as blocked?

MarketWatch currently answers automated requests for quote, search and article pages with an access challenge. The Actor reports those pages in SUMMARY.blockedUrls, writes nothing for them and charges no result events. The news-feed mode is not affected.

How fresh are the news-feed records?

Each run reads the live feeds, so records reflect what MarketWatch publishes at run time. The top-stories and real-time-headlines feeds carry about 10 recent stories each; market pulse carries about 30.

Last verified: 2026-10-27