📰 MarketWatch Scraper

🚀 Export MarketWatch financial news articles in seconds. Get title, author, publish date, section, image, and article URL without writing a single line of code.

The MarketWatch Scraper pulls live financial news articles directly from MarketWatch's official RSS feeds - the same public data feeds used by news aggregators and financial platforms worldwide. No login required, no paywall, no browser automation. Just clean, structured financial news data ready for CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML export.

MarketWatch (marketwatch.com) is one of the most widely read financial news sources in the world, covering stocks, markets, economy, investing strategy, and personal finance. This scraper gives you programmatic access to their latest headlines with full metadata.

Coverage: 5 news sections - Top Stories, Markets (MarketPulse), Investing (Breaking News), Economy, and Personal Finance. Up to 1,000,000 articles per run. 9 fields per record including image thumbnails, author attribution, and ISO timestamps.

Who uses this	Why
Financial analysts	Monitor market-moving headlines in real time
Traders	Track news sentiment for stocks and sectors
Journalists	Research financial news coverage patterns
Researchers	Build datasets of financial news for NLP/ML
Developers	Power news feeds and financial dashboards
Investors	Stay informed across multiple market sections

📋 What the MarketWatch Scraper does

• Connects to MarketWatch's official RSS feeds for each news section
• Extracts article title, summary, author, and publish timestamp
• Captures article thumbnail image URLs from media metadata
• Maps each article to its source section (Top Stories, Markets, etc.)
• Applies your maxItems limit so you get exactly the data you need
• Delivers results instantly - no waiting for pages to load or JavaScript to render

💡 Why it matters: Financial markets move on news. Having structured, timestamped access to MarketWatch headlines means you can track what moved markets, build sentiment models, monitor news flow by sector, or simply stay on top of the financial day - all without manual browsing.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: articleUrl, author, imageUrl, publishedAt, results, scrapedAt, section, summary, tickers, title. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: The section field maps to official MarketWatch RSS feeds. latest and economy both pull from the main Top Stories feed. investing pulls from the Breaking News Bulletins feed. technology pulls from the Personal Finance feed (the closest available feed). Free users are limited to 10 articles per run.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit on Apify
2. Open the MarketWatch Scraper page
3. Choose your News Section (latest, markets, investing, economy, or technology)
4. Set Max Items - start with 10 for a free preview, up to 1,000,000 on paid plans
5. Click Start and wait a few seconds
6. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by MarketWatch or Dow Jones & Company, Inc. It accesses only publicly available RSS feed data. Use of this Actor is subject to Apify's Terms of Service. Users are responsible for ensuring their use of the data complies with applicable laws and MarketWatch's terms of service.

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