Nasdaq Scraper

Nasdaq is the listing venue itself, so its quote page is the primary record rather than a redistribution, but there is no public API for it. This Actor reads the Nasdaq quote page and returns one structured record per symbol: last sale, net and percent change, bid and ask, volume, day and 52-week range, the listing details, and whether the market was open, closed or in extended hours when the price was read.

What it does

• Returns one record per requested symbol, in order. A symbol Nasdaq does not list comes back with status: "failed" and a reason.
• Reports the live market status on each record, so you know whether a price is a regular-session print, a pre-market or after-hours quote, or the previous close.
• Says where the day range came from in dayRangeSource, because Nasdaq publishes it in more than one place and they can disagree.
• Covers four asset classes: stocks, ETFs, indices and mutual funds, each selected by the asset class input.
• Reads from the listing venue itself, so quotes are the primary record rather than a redistributed feed.
• Has a second mode for news, one record per story on the symbol's Nasdaq news page.

Use cases

You need to	How this Actor does it
Know whether a price is live	Read marketStatus before you act on value
Price a watchlist at the open	Pass your symbols and schedule the run for the bell
Cover ETFs and funds in the same pipeline	Set the asset class and reuse the same field names
Catch a 52-week breakout	Compare value against the 52-week high on each run
Feed a finance agent	Call the Actor over MCP and let the model ask for the symbol it needs
Build your own history	Schedule the run and let the dataset accumulate a row per symbol per run

Quick start

1. Click Try for free.
2. Add your symbols, one per line: AAPL, MSFT, NVDA.
3. Set Asset class to match what you asked for: stocks, etf, index or mutualfunds. A stock looked up as an ETF will fail.
4. Leave Mode on quote, or switch it to news.
5. Click Start. Rows appear within seconds.
6. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read the dataset over the API.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it controls
symbols	array	AAPL	Symbols to read
assetClass	string	stocks	Which Nasdaq listing type to look the symbols up as
mode	string	quote	quote returns a record per symbol, news a record per story
newsPerSymbol	integer	20	Stories per symbol in news mode
maxItems	integer	0	Caps how many symbols are read. 0 reads them all

{
    "symbols": [
        "AAPL",
        "MSFT",
        "NVDA"
    ],
    "assetClass": "stocks",
    "mode": "quote",
    "maxItems": 0
}

Output

One dataset item per symbol. Fields Nasdaq does not publish for an asset class are dropped rather than returned as null, so an index carries no bid or ask.

Field group	Fields
Identity	status, tickerSymbol, name, assetClass, currency, url
Price	value, change, changePercent, bid, ask, previousClose
Ranges and volume	dayLow, dayHigh, dayRangeSource, fiftyTwoWeekLow, fiftyTwoWeekHigh, volume
Session	marketStatus, exchange
Listing	marketCap, peRatio, earningsDate, dividendYieldPercent
News mode	headline, publisher, datePublished, url
Timing	validFrom, scrapedAt

{
    "status": "ok",
    "tickerSymbol": "AAPL",
    "name": "Apple Inc. Common Stock",
    "assetClass": "stocks",
    "currency": "USD",
    "value": 319.97,
    "change": -8.24,
    "changePercent": -2.51,
    "dayLow": 317.86,
    "dayHigh": 328.93,
    "dayRangeSource": "published",
    "fiftyTwoWeekHigh": 344.57,
    "volume": 38272821,
    "marketStatus": "Market Closed",
    "marketCap": 4670000000000,
    "peRatio": 36.65,
    "validFrom": "2026-09-04T20:00:01.000Z",
    "url": "https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/aapl"
}

What does news mode return?

mode: "news" returns the stories on the symbol's Nasdaq news page: headline, publisher, datePublished and url, plus the tickerSymbol the story was found under. News is charged as news items rather than as quote records, and News per symbol sets how many each symbol returns.

Integrations

Run it over the API and get the rows back in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/publicmoney~nasdaq-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"symbols": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA"], "assetClass": "stocks", "mode": "quote", "maxItems": 0}'

From Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("publicmoney/nasdaq-scraper").call(run_input={"symbols": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "NVDA"], "assetClass": "stocks", "mode": "quote", "maxItems": 0})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["tickerSymbol"], item["name"], item["value"])

Give an AI agent the Actor over MCP:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=publicmoney/nasdaq-scraper"
        }
    }
}

Schedules run it on any cron, webhooks fire when a run finishes, and platform integrations push the dataset to Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable, Zapier or your own endpoint.

Cost

Pay per event, so you pay for records rather than compute time.

Event	Free tier	Top volume tier
Record with data	$0.002	$0.0007
News article	$0.001	$0.00035
Actor start	$0.00005 per GB	Same

A record that returned no data is published as a failure row and is never charged. Six volume tiers apply, so the per-record price falls with monthly volume.

Troubleshooting

Issue	Solution
A symbol returns failed and I know it exists	The asset class does not match. Nasdaq looks a symbol up within one listing type, so an ETF requested as stocks fails. Set Asset class correctly.
value has not moved since yesterday	Read marketStatus. When the market is closed, the last sale is the previous close and will not change until the next session.
bid and ask are missing	Nasdaq publishes no book for indices and mutual funds, and none outside session hours for some listings.
The day range disagrees with another source	Check dayRangeSource. Nasdaq publishes the range in more than one place and the two can differ during extended hours.
A mutual fund has no intraday price	Funds price once a day at NAV. That is the instrument, not the Actor.

FAQ

Does Nasdaq have a public API?

No. Nasdaq publishes no documented public API for this data. The endpoints that libraries reach for are internal and unsupported, and they change without notice. This Actor reads the public quote page, which is why it keeps working.

Why does the price not change when the market is closed?

Because the last sale is the closing print. marketStatus tells you which state the market was in, so you can hold the value rather than treating it as stale.

Can it read ETFs and index funds?

Yes. Set Asset class to etf, index or mutualfunds. The field names stay the same across all four, so one pipeline handles every type.

Does it return historical prices?

No. Each record is the current snapshot as the source publishes it. To build a series, schedule the Actor and let the dataset accumulate a row per input per run. Each row carries validFrom, so the series is correctly timestamped.

Is there a Nasdaq news API?

mode: "news" is the closest thing, returning the stories on a symbol's Nasdaq news page with headline, publisher, date and URL, charged as news items.

Do I need a Nasdaq API key?

No. You need an Apify token to call the Actor over the API. No Nasdaq credential is involved anywhere.

Can I get this data in Python?

Yes, with the apify-client package as shown above. It returns parsed JSON, so there is no HTML or response handling on your side.

Can I get the data into Excel or Google Sheets?

Yes. Export the dataset as XLSX or CSV, or connect the Google Sheets integration so each run appends to a sheet.

Can an AI agent call this Actor?

Yes. Add it to an MCP client with the config above and the model can request what it needs on its own. Every record is flat JSON with named fields, so no post-processing is needed.

Is it legal to scrape Nasdaq?

This Actor reads public Nasdaq data that needs no login and collects no personal data. Scraping public data is generally lawful, and how you store, redistribute or act on market data is governed by your own agreements and local rules. Take your own legal advice for your use case.

Changelog

• 0.0.2 Added news mode, the live market status and dayRangeSource.
• 0.0.1 First release. Quote mode across stocks, ETFs, indices and mutual funds.

Feedback

Found a field Nasdaq publishes that this Actor misses, or an input it rejects? Open an issue on the Issues tab with the input and what you expected. A daily test runs every Actor in the fleet against live sources, so parser fixes ship fast.