Cnbc Quotes Scraper

What does CNBC Quotes Scraper do?

CNBC Quotes Scraper fetches real-time quotes, symbol/company search results, and per-symbol news from CNBC — one dataset row per symbol.

It talks directly to CNBC's own internal mobile-app APIs (reverse-engineered by live MITM capture against the real Android app), not the public website. /quote is a REST call to quote.cnbc.com; symbol search and per-symbol news are native GraphQL persisted-query calls to webql.cnbcfm.com — the exact same calls the CNBC app itself makes. No CNBC account, no API key, no scraping setup. This is the quotes-and-search slice of CNBC All-in-One API, split out as its own focused Actor.

Why use CNBC Quotes Scraper?

• Real-time quotes for any asset class CNBC covers — stocks, indexes, bonds, crypto, commodities/futures, and forex, all through the same endpoint
• One batch call for quotes — pass a whole symbol list and get it back split into one clean row per symbol
• Symbol search — resolve a company name or partial ticker (e.g. "TESLA") into real tradable symbols
• Per-symbol news — the same symbol-scoped news feed shown on CNBC's own quote page
• No account needed — every read request works fully anonymously
• Use cases: portfolio/watchlist dashboards, market-data pipelines, symbol lookup/autocomplete, news monitoring per ticker

How it connects to the parent

CNBC All-in-One API is a Standby-mode Actor exposing CNBC's full reverse-engineered API surface (news, video, TV schedule, markets banner, fundamentals, articles, and more) behind a single REST-style HTTP interface. This Actor takes only the /quote, /quote-search, and /quote-news endpoints from that surface and repackages them as a plain batch-input Actor that writes to an Apify dataset, for cases where you just want quote/search/news data on a schedule without running a Standby server yourself.

Input

Field	Type	Description
symbols	string[]	Quote lookup. One dataset row per symbol, fetched as a single batch call. See symbol formats below.
searchSymbols	string[]	Symbol/company search. One dataset row per query, e.g. "TESLA" -> matching tickers.
newsSymbols	string[]	Per-symbol news lookup. One dataset row per symbol.
newsSection	string	Optional section id shared across all newsSymbols lookups. Confirmed real param; exact effect not fully characterized.

At least one of symbols, searchSymbols, or newsSymbols is required.

Symbol formats CNBC accepts:

Format	Example	Meaning
Plain ticker	AAPL	Stock
Index	.DJI	Dow Jones Industrial Average
Bond	US10Y	US 10-Year Treasury yield
Crypto	BTC.CM=	Bitcoin
Futures/commodity	@CL.1	Crude oil front-month future

Example input:

{
    "symbols": ["AAPL", ".DJI", "US10Y", "BTC.CM=", "@CL.1"],
    "searchSymbols": ["TESLA"],
    "newsSymbols": [".DJI"]
}

Output

One dataset row per symbol/query, tagged with a type field:

{
    "type": "quote",
    "symbol": "AAPL",
    "data": {
        "symbol": "AAPL",
        "name": "Apple Inc.",
        "last": "313.36",
        "changetype": "DOWN",
        "change": "-3.47",
        "change_pct": "-1.10%",
        "exchange": "NASDAQ"
    }
}

{
    "type": "quote-search",
    "symbol": "TESLA",
    "results": [{ "...": "matching symbol entries" }]
}

{
    "type": "quote-news",
    "symbol": ".DJI",
    "news": [{ "...": "news article entries" }]
}

If CNBC's /quote response shape for a run doesn't match what's expected (a change on CNBC's side), the Actor pushes a single { "type": "quote", "symbols": [...], "data": <raw response> } row instead of guessing at a split — check the logs for a warning when this happens.

Known limitations

• Broader CNBC coverage (news feed, articles, video, TV schedule, markets banner, fundamentals) is available in the parent CNBC All-in-One API — this Actor is intentionally narrow.
• newsSection's exact filtering effect was captured live but not fully characterized against every possible value.
• CNBC's internal APIs are unofficial and undocumented; response shapes can change without notice.

Pricing

Pay per event. Charged quote ($0.001 on the FREE plan) once per dataset row produced — one row per symbol/query across symbols, searchSymbols, and newsSymbols. See the Actor's Pricing tab for current rates.