CNBC All-in-One API

What does CNBC All-in-One API do?

CNBC All-in-One API is a REST endpoint for CNBC's live data — news feed, trending news & videos, breaking news, special reports, most-popular articles, article detail, video with a direct playable stream URL, today's live TV schedule, and a market index ticker banner — plus real-time quotes for stocks, indexes, bonds, crypto, and commodities with symbol search, per-symbol news, and fundamentals. All from a single always-on API powered by Apify Standby.

It talks directly to the same internal API the official CNBC Android app uses (webql.cnbcfm.com, quote.cnbc.com, marketdata.cnbc.com), reverse-engineered by live MITM capture against a real device — every endpoint below is a real persisted GraphQL query or REST call the app itself sends (captured live, never guessed). No CNBC account, no API key, no scraping setup — call the endpoint, get JSON back. Every endpoint works fully anonymously (confirmed by inspecting real request headers — no Authorization header, no cookie, no session token needed).

Why use CNBC All-in-One API?

• Full article body text, no account needed — /article returns real structured body content (paragraphs, links) for the large majority of CNBC's articles anonymously; only premium: true (Investing Club/Pro) pieces are gated
• Real-time quotes for anything CNBC covers — stocks, indexes, bonds, crypto, commodities, futures, forex — one endpoint, no auth
• Video with a direct stream URL — /video returns a playbackURL you can hand straight to any HLS player, no scraping the video player page
• Live TV schedule — what's on CNBC right now and what's coming up next
• Market ticker banner — the DJIA/S&P 500/NASDAQ-style summary the app itself shows on its home screen
• Symbol search → fundamentals pipeline — search a company name, get its internal id, pull 52-week/5-year/10-year highs and lows and period returns
• Always-on — Standby mode means no cold start, responds in milliseconds
• No account needed — every endpoint works fully anonymously
• Use cases: financial dashboards, market monitoring bots, news aggregation, quote widgets, video/media pipelines

Endpoints

Method	Path	Description
GET	/news	Content feed for one or more section ids
GET	/trending	Trending news articles or trending videos
GET	/breaking-news	Current breaking news alert / watch-live banner
GET	/special-reports	Special reports feed
GET	/most-popular	"Most popular" articles rail, scoped to an article
GET	/article	Article detail, full body text included for non-premium articles
GET	/video	Video detail with a direct playable stream URL
GET	/tv-schedule	Today's live TV schedule
GET	/markets	Market index ticker banner (DJIA/S&P 500/NASDAQ)
GET	/quote	Real-time quote for any symbol (stocks, indexes, bonds, crypto, ...)
GET	/quote-search	Search for a symbol by company name or ticker
GET	/quote-news	News related to a specific symbol
GET	/fundamentals	52-week/5-year/10-year highs and lows, period returns

How to use CNBC All-in-One API

1. Open this Actor's Standby API URL (shown on the Actor's page, under the API tab) — https://romy--cnbc-all-in-one-api.apify.actor.
2. Call any endpoint — for example:

   curl "https://romy--cnbc-all-in-one-api.apify.actor/news?ids=105230142&count=10"
   curl "https://romy--cnbc-all-in-one-api.apify.actor/trending?type=news"
   curl "https://romy--cnbc-all-in-one-api.apify.actor/quote?symbols=AAPL,.DJI,US10Y"
   curl "https://romy--cnbc-all-in-one-api.apify.actor/quote-search?symbol=TESLA"
   curl "https://romy--cnbc-all-in-one-api.apify.actor/video?vcp_id=7000422401"
   curl "https://romy--cnbc-all-in-one-api.apify.actor/tv-schedule"
   curl "https://romy--cnbc-all-in-one-api.apify.actor/markets"
   

   Every call needs your Apify API token, either as Authorization: Bearer <token> or ?token=<token> — the Actor's page API tab has a ready-to-copy version with your token filled in.
3. Read the JSON response — no setup required.

Parameters

GET /news — ids required.

Param	Type	Example	Meaning
ids	int[], repeat	105230142	One or more section ids (repeat ids= for multiple). 105230142 is the app's default Home feed.
count	int, default 30	30	Assets per section

GET /trending — type required.

Param	Type	Example	Meaning
type	enum	news	news | videos
count	int, default 13	13	Items to return — type=news only
start_period	string, default 2h	2h	Trending time window — type=videos only. App's own default, not a confirmed enum
sort_by	string, default engaged_minutes	engaged_minutes	Ranking metric — type=videos only. Same caveat as start_period

GET /breaking-news

Param	Type, default	Example	Meaning
product	string, web	web	Product surface — only web confirmed live

GET /special-reports

Param	Type, default	Example	Meaning
page_size	int, 30	30	Reports to return

GET /most-popular — id required.

Param	Type	Example	Meaning
id	int	108352201	Article id to scope the "most popular" rail to

GET /article — id required.

Param	Type	Example	Meaning
id	int	108351154	Article id. Full body text unless the article is premium: true (see Data notes)

GET /video — vcp_id required.

Param	Type	Example	Meaning
vcp_id	int	7000422401	The video's numeric vcpID

GET /tv-schedule — no parameters.

GET /markets

Param	Type, default	Example	Meaning
id	int, 100769431	100769431	Banner preset — default is the app's "US" home-screen banner
security_count	int, 3	3	Securities to include

GET /quote — symbols required.

Param	Type	Example	Meaning
symbols	string	AAPL,.DJI,US10Y,BTC.CM=	Comma-separated symbols. Real formats: plain ticker (AAPL), index with leading dot (.DJI), bond (US10Y), crypto suffixed .CM=, futures prefixed @ (@CL.1)

GET /quote-search — symbol required.

Param	Type	Example	Meaning
symbol	string	TESLA	Company name or partial ticker

GET /quote-news — symbol required.

Param	Type	Example	Meaning
symbol	string	.DJI	Symbol to fetch news for
section	string	106983828	Optional section id — confirmed real param, exact effect not fully characterized

GET /fundamentals — wsod_issue required.

Param	Type, default	Example	Meaning
wsod_issue	string	599362	CNBC's internal security id (NOT the ticker) — get it from /quote-search//quote's issueId
section	string, returns	returns	Only returns confirmed live; other values may exist but aren't validated

Output

Every response is returned directly over HTTP — this Actor does not write to an Apify dataset. Responses pass through CNBC's own real (deeply nested) GraphQL/REST data. Real responses (trimmed to the most relevant fields for readability):

GET /quote?symbols=AAPL:

{
    "success": true,
    "quote": {
        "FormattedQuoteResult": {
            "FormattedQuote": [
                {
                    "symbol": "AAPL",
                    "name": "Apple Inc.",
                    "last": "313.36",
                    "changetype": "DOWN",
                    "change": "-3.47",
                    "change_pct": "-1.10%",
                    "exchange": "NASDAQ"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

GET /article?id=108351154 (a regular, premium: false article — full body text, no auth):

{
    "success": true,
    "article": {
        "id": 108351154,
        "premium": false,
        "body": {
            "isAuthenticated": false,
            "content": [
                {
                    "tagName": "div",
                    "children": [
                        {
                            "tagName": "p",
                            "children": [
                                "Americans love ",
                                {
                                    "tagName": "a",
                                    "attributes": { "href": "https://www.cnbc.com/sport/" },
                                    "children": ["sports"]
                                },
                                " — so much so that many are spending hundreds or thousands of dollars a year to show their fandom."
                            ]
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

GET /video?vcp_id=7000422401:

{
    "success": true,
    "video": {
        "headline": "Watch CNBC's full interview with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent",
        "duration": 1148,
        "playbackURL": "//cnbcawsmpvod.akamaized.net/out/v1/6629fb.../master.m3u8",
        "section": { "shortestHeadline": "Squawk on the Street" }
    }
}

GET /tv-schedule:

{
    "success": true,
    "schedule": {
        "currDate": "2026-08-20",
        "live": { "shortTitle": "Closing Bell", "startTimeFormatted": "03:00 pm", "endTimeFormatted": "04:00 pm" }
    }
}

GET /fundamentals?wsod_issue=599362:

{
    "success": true,
    "fundamentals": {
        "599362": {
            "Ranges": [{ "Name": "52-Wk Hi/Lo", "HighValue": "53289.30", "LowValue": "43340.68" }],
            "Values": [{ "Name": "FiveDayReturn", "Value": "0.23%" }]
        }
    }
}

Data notes

• Two separate GraphQL backends are involved: webql.cnbcfm.com (the native app's own backend, powers /news, /trending, /breaking-news, /special-reports, /video, /tv-schedule, /markets, /quote-search, /quote-news) and webql-redesign.cnbcfm.com (the website's backend, powers /article and /most-popular — reachable from inside the app's in-app article browser). Both use Apollo-style persisted queries (fixed sha256 hashes) with no auth.
• /article returns full body text for regular articles, no auth needed. Only premium: true articles (Investing Club / CNBC Pro pieces) come back with an empty body.content array when unauthenticated — that paywall is server-enforced, not a client-side UI restriction. Confirmed live across an 11-article sample: 9 of 11 (premium: false) returned full structured body text; the 2 premium: true ones were empty. Check the response's premium field to know which case you got.
• /quote's symbol formats are real, not guessed: confirmed live across stocks (AAPL), indexes with a leading dot (.DJI, .SPX), bonds (US10Y, US30Y), crypto suffixed .CM= (BTC.CM=), and futures/commodities prefixed @ (@CL.1 for crude oil) — the same endpoint handles all of them.
• /video's playbackURL is a direct Akamai HLS master playlist, confirmed playable with no signature or expiring token in the URL.
• /trending's start_period/sort_by (videos only) are the app's own fixed defaults — no in-app control to change them was found, so only one real value is confirmed for each; they're passed through as-is rather than validated against a guessed enum.
• The app has no separate article/content search — its single search icon (present on every News tab, including Home) always opens the same stock/symbol search (quoteSearch), confirmed live. /quote-search covers 100% of the app's search feature; there's no /search endpoint here because there's nothing further to wrap.
• No pagination exists for /news, /trending, or /special-reports. Confirmed by scrolling all the way to the bottom of the app's Home feed, Trending Now, and Special Reports screens repeatedly — sections/trendingNews/specialReports are always called with the exact same count/pageSize, never an offset or cursor. These are fixed-size bounded lists in the app itself, not infinite-scroll feeds — count/page_size on those endpoints is the only real control, not a partial implementation.
• The CNBC app's production build ignores Android's system-wide HTTP proxy setting and only trusts the OS + user certificate store — unlike some apps in this series, capturing its traffic needed extra work beyond the usual TLS-validation bypass used elsewhere across this developer's actors.

Pricing

Pay-per-event, billed on each successful call. See the Actor's Pricing tab for current rates.

Known limitations

• /article only withholds body text for premium: true articles (Investing Club / CNBC Pro) — that paywall is enforced server-side even for anonymous requests, and this Actor does not support logging into a CNBC account to get around it. Regular articles are unaffected — full body text either way.
• /fundamentals's upstream (marketdata.cnbc.com) showed intermittent 503s during development, unrelated to request format — a 502 from this endpoint may just reflect a transient issue on CNBC's side, worth retrying.
• /fundamentals's section parameter is only confirmed with the value returns; other section values common on similar financial APIs (profile, estimates, financials) may be real but weren't captured live, so aren't documented as guaranteed to work.
• This is an unofficial, reverse-engineered integration, not affiliated with or endorsed by CNBC or NBCUniversal. Behavior may change if CNBC changes its API.

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