💬 Stocktwits Trending Symbols Scraper

🚀 Export Stocktwits trending tickers in seconds, including watchlist count, message volume, sentiment skew, last price and change, straight from the public api.stocktwits.com trending stream.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-29 · 📊 11 fields per record · Real-time retail sentiment · Auto-aggregated bullish/bearish skew

The Stocktwits Trending Symbols Scraper turns the public Stocktwits trending message stream into a ticker-level sentiment dataset. It walks the most recent trending messages, aggregates how many bullish vs bearish posts each symbol got, and emits one row per ticker.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
📊 Retail flow analysts	Detect meme-stock momentum
💱 Quant teams	Sentiment-as-a-feature backtests
🏢 Hedge funds	Crowded-position risk monitoring
🤖 ML researchers	NLP-sentiment training labels
📰 Financial journalists	Track retail mood shifts
👩‍💻 Developers	Build sentiment dashboards

📋 What the Stocktwits Trending Symbols Scraper does

• Calls https://api.stocktwits.com/api/2/streams/trending.json.
• Aggregates messages per symbol with bullish/bearish counts.
• Computes a net sentiment label.
• Optionally filters to a list of tickers.
• Exports as CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, or HTML.

💡 Why it matters: Stocktwits is the largest dedicated retail trading community. Sentiment skew on trending tickers is a leading indicator for short-term momentum.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
maxItems	integer	No	Free 10, paid up to 1M.
symbolFilter	string	No	Comma-separated tickers.

Example 1:

{ "maxItems": 25 }

Example 2:

{ "symbolFilter": "AAPL,TSLA,NVDA" }

⚠️ Good to Know: The trending endpoint is rate-limited. Each call returns up to ~30 most recent trending messages.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
📈 symbol	string	Ticker.
📛 title	string	Company name.
🔗 url	string	Stocktwits symbol page.
👀 watchlist_count	number	Followers count.
💬 message_count	number	Messages in current trending window.
🎭 sentiment	string	Bullish / Bearish / Neutral skew.
💲 last_price	number	Last sale (if present).
📊 change	number	Day change.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When fetched.
❌ error	string	Error if upstream failed.

Sample record:

{
  "symbol": "TSLA",
  "title": "Tesla Inc.",
  "url": "https://stocktwits.com/symbol/TSLA",
  "watchlist_count": 540123,
  "message_count": 12,
  "sentiment": "Bullish",
  "bullish_messages": 9,
  "bearish_messages": 2,
  "last_price": 241.5,
  "change": 3.21,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-29T13:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public Stocktwits trending stream, no key. | | 🎭 | Auto-aggregated bullish/bearish skew. | | 🔢 | Numeric casting. | | 🛟 | Errors surfaced cleanly. | | 🔌 | Symbol filter. | | 💾 | CSV / Excel / JSON / XML / RSS / HTML. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	Sentiment agg?	Filter?	Errors?
Raw fetch	20 min	manual	❌	❌
Custom pipeline	1 hr	partial	partial	partial
This Actor	5 sec	✅	✅	✅

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Optional symbolFilter.
3. Click Start.

💼 Business use cases

📊 Meme-stock detection. Catch breakout names before they hit mainstream news.

💼 Quant signals. Use sentiment skew as a backtestable feature.

📰 Newsroom. Spot mood swings before earnings.

🤖 ML. Train sentiment models with crowd labels.

🔌 Automating Stocktwits Trending Symbols Scraper

• Make / Zapier to Airtable / Slack.
• Cron schedule native Apify.
• Webhooks on completion.
• Pipe to BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Teach sentiment analysis.

🧪 Personal research. Track your watchlist.

🤝 Open data. Retail sentiment dashboards.

🧰 Prototyping. Quick feed.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ API key? None.

❓ Refresh? Real-time trending stream.

❓ Filter? Yes by symbol.

❓ Cast? Yes.

❓ Errors? Clean {error} record.

❓ Schedule? Yes.

❓ Scraping or API? Public API.

❓ Schema stable? Yes.

❓ Formats? CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML.

❓ How fresh? Last ~30 trending messages.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, REST/webhook.

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