📊 TradingView Ideas Scraper

🚀 Export public trading ideas from TradingView with symbols, sentiment, and engagement metrics in seconds.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-22 · 📊 12 fields per record · Hundreds of ideas per run · Global coverage across all asset classes

Scrape public trading ideas published on TradingView - the world's largest social trading platform. Each idea record includes the chart image, title, symbol, idea type (Long/Short/Neutral/Education), author, likes, comments, and full description.

Data is scraped in real time from TradingView's public ideas feed - no account, no API key, no login required.

Coverage

• 14+ million published ideas on TradingView
• All asset classes: crypto, forex, stocks, commodities, indices, bonds
• All idea types: Long, Short, Neutral, Education
• Filter by symbol: BTCUSD, AAPL, EURUSD, XAUUSD, SPY, and any other ticker
• Sort by: Popularity or Recency

Target Audience / Use Cases

Audience	Use Case
Quant researchers	Collect sentiment signals from retail traders for backtesting
Financial journalists	Monitor trending ideas around specific tickers or market events
Data scientists	Build NLP datasets from trading idea descriptions
Market analysts	Track community sentiment for specific symbols or sectors
Trading educators	Study popular trading ideas and strategies
Fintech developers	Power sentiment dashboards and analytics tools

📋 What the TradingView Ideas Scraper does

• Scrapes all public trading ideas from TradingView's ideas feed in real time
• Filters by trading symbol (BTCUSD, AAPL, XAUUSD, EURUSD, SPY, etc.)
• Filters by idea direction: Long, Short, or any
• Sorts by popularity or recency
• Collects title, description, symbol, sentiment type, author, likes, comments, and publication date
• Captures chart preview image URL for each idea
• Handles pagination automatically to collect any number of ideas

💡 Why it matters: TradingView has over 14 million published ideas from millions of traders worldwide. This data is a rich source of retail market sentiment, trading strategy research, and community engagement metrics unavailable through any official API.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
symbol	string	Filter by trading symbol (e.g. BTCUSD, AAPL, XAUUSD). Leave empty for all ideas.	(empty - all)
maxItems	integer	Maximum number of ideas to collect. Free users limited to 10.	10
sort	select	Sort by: Popular or Recent	popular
ideaType	select	Filter by: Any, Long (bullish), Short (bearish)	any

Example - All popular ideas:

{
  "sort": "popular",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example - Recent Bitcoin ideas, Long only:

{
  "symbol": "BTCUSD",
  "sort": "recent",
  "ideaType": "long",
  "maxItems": 50
}

⚠️ Good to Know: The symbol field accepts the ticker as it appears on TradingView (e.g. BTCUSD, XAUUSD, AAPL, EURUSD). When using symbol, the ideaType filter is applied client-side on top of the symbol filter. Leave symbol empty to scrape ideas across all instruments. Free users are automatically limited to 10 items. Create a free account w/ $5 credit to unlock up to 1,000,000 records.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🖼️ imageUrl	string	Chart preview image URL
📝 title	string	Title of the trading idea
🔗 url	string	Link to the full idea on TradingView
📈 symbol	string	Trading symbol (e.g. OANDA:XAUUSD)
🎯 ideaType	string	Sentiment: Long, Short, Neutral, Education
👤 author	string	TradingView username
🌐 authorUrl	string	Author's TradingView profile URL
👍 likes	integer	Number of boosts/likes
💬 comments	integer	Number of comments
👁️ views	integer	Views count (null - not exposed on listing)
📅 publishedAt	string	ISO 8601 publication timestamp
📖 description	string	Idea body text
⏱️ scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 collection timestamp
❌ error	string	Error message if item failed

Sample record:

{
  "imageUrl": "https://s3.tradingview.com/i/IibS9maS_mid.png",
  "title": "XAUUSD Weekly CLS Model 1",
  "url": "https://www.tradingview.com/chart/XAUUSD/IibS9maS-XAUUSD-Weekly-CLS-Model-1/",
  "symbol": "OANDA:XAUUSD",
  "ideaType": "Long",
  "author": "David_Perk",
  "authorUrl": "https://www.tradingview.com/u/David_Perk/",
  "likes": 160,
  "comments": 40,
  "views": null,
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-21T13:27:26.000Z",
  "description": "Hi Friends, New CLS Range has been created and Im looking for Long Model 1 trade setup...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-22T02:26:09.754Z"
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

Feature	Details
🌐 No login required	Scrapes public data only - no TradingView account needed
⚡ Fast HTML scraping	Uses got-scraping with real browser fingerprints - no browser overhead
🎯 Precise filtering	Filter by symbol, direction (long/short), and sort order
📦 Rich data	12 fields per idea including chart image, description, and engagement metrics
🔄 Unlimited pagination	Automatically pages through results to collect any number of ideas
🔒 Anti-bot safe	Uses browser-like TLS fingerprints via got-scraping

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Feature	This Actor	Manual browsing	TradingView API
Bulk export	✅ Unlimited	❌ One at a time	❌ No public API
Symbol filter	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	N/A
Sentiment filter	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	N/A
CSV / JSON export	✅ Yes	❌ No	N/A
Automation	✅ Yes	❌ No	N/A
No account needed	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	❌ Requires account

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit on Apify
2. Open the TradingView Ideas Scraper Actor page
3. Click Try for free
4. Set your filters: symbol, idea type, sort, and max items
5. Click Run and wait a few seconds
6. Download your dataset as CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML

💼 Business use cases

Market Sentiment Research

Track bullish vs bearish bias across retail traders for specific tickers. Aggregate idea counts by type (Long/Short) over time to build sentiment indicators. Combine with price data to test sentiment-price correlations.

Trading Strategy Intelligence

Collect the most popular ideas for a given symbol to understand what setups retail traders are watching. Identify recurring patterns, key levels, and strategy names referenced across many ideas.

Financial Content and Journalism

Monitor trending trading ideas during market-moving events. Find the most-liked ideas around earnings, economic data releases, or geopolitical events. Identify top authors by engagement metrics.

Quantitative Research Datasets

Build NLP training datasets from idea descriptions. Train sentiment classifiers using the Long/Short label as ground truth. Create symbol co-occurrence graphs from ideas that reference multiple instruments.

🔌 Automating TradingView Ideas Scraper

Connect to your workflow using:

• Make (formerly Integromat) - Schedule daily sentiment exports to Google Sheets
• Zapier - Trigger alerts when new ideas for a specific symbol are published
• Slack - Post top trending ideas to a trading channel automatically
• Airtable - Build a searchable database of trading ideas
• Google Sheets - Track sentiment metrics over time with scheduled runs

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Academic Research

Study retail investor sentiment and herding behavior. Analyze how community sentiment correlates with subsequent price movements across asset classes.

Creative and Educational Projects

Build a personal idea tracker. Create visualizations of sentiment distribution across markets. Study what makes a trading idea popular (likes, presentation, timing).

Non-profit and Open Data

Contribute to open financial datasets by publishing aggregated sentiment statistics. Support financial literacy research by analyzing how ideas are communicated.

Experimentation

Test sentiment-based trading strategies using historical idea data. Experiment with NLP on financial text at scale. Build dashboards tracking idea velocity for specific symbols.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

You can ask an AI assistant: "How do I use the TradingView Ideas Scraper to track Bitcoin sentiment over time?" or "What fields does the TradingView Ideas Scraper return?" and get immediate guidance on using this Actor in your workflow.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Does this require a TradingView account? No. All data scraped is publicly accessible without login.

❓ What symbols can I filter by? Any symbol listed on TradingView - crypto (BTCUSD, ETHUSD), forex (EURUSD, GBPUSD), stocks (AAPL, TSLA), commodities (XAUUSD, USOIL), indices (SPX, NAS100), and more.

❓ What does ideaType filter to? "Long" returns bullish ideas, "Short" returns bearish ideas. "Any" returns all ideas regardless of direction.

❓ How many ideas can I collect? Paid users can collect up to 1,000,000 ideas per run. Free users are limited to 10 as a preview.

❓ How often is the data updated? The scraper fetches real-time data from TradingView's live feed. Run it anytime for fresh results.

❓ Can I get ideas for multiple symbols at once? The Actor processes one symbol per run. To collect ideas for multiple symbols, run multiple instances in parallel using Apify's batch run feature.

❓ What is the sort=recent option? "Recent" sorts ideas by publication date (newest first). "Popular" sorts by engagement/boost count.

❓ Why is the views field null? TradingView does not expose view counts in the public ideas listing page. The field is included in the schema for future compatibility if this changes.

❓ Can I use this for automated trading signals? The scraper provides raw data only. Any trading decisions made based on scraped ideas are your own responsibility.

❓ What happens if TradingView changes their layout? We monitor and update selectors as needed. The Actor uses stable data-qa-id attributes where possible for resilience to UI changes.

❓ Is there a rate limit? The Actor uses respectful request pacing and browser-like fingerprints. For very large runs (10,000+ items), use Apify proxies for best results.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Export your dataset in any format:

• JSON - For developers and APIs
• CSV - For Excel and Google Sheets
• XML - For enterprise systems
• JSONL - For streaming and big data pipelines

Connect via:

• Apify API (REST)
• Webhooks on run completion
• Make (Integromat) Apify module
• Zapier Apify integration
• Direct dataset URL

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Disclaimer: This Actor scrapes publicly available data from TradingView. It is intended for research, analytics, and informational purposes only. Use responsibly and in accordance with TradingView's terms of service. ParseForge is not affiliated with TradingView. Trading involves risk - nothing scraped by this Actor constitutes financial advice.