# Changelog of Financial News Sentiment Analyzer (`scionic_dev/financial-news-sentiment`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scionic_dev/financial-news-sentiment/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/scionic_dev/financial-news-sentiment.md

## Changelog

### 12 November 2026: new sentiment engines

- **New default engine: built-in AI sentiment model.** Correct on ~78% of real November 2026 headlines vs ~52% for VADER, at the same $5 per 1,000 price. VADER stays available as `vader`.
- **LLM mode upgraded to Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (~91% accurate)**, with sentiment per company (`ticker_sentiment`), `event_type` and a one-line `sentiment_reason`. Quote pages and listings are skipped and not charged.
- **Fix:** LLM mode had stopped working and returned neutral labels. If the LLM is unavailable, articles now get the built-in model and the standard price.
- **Fix:** searches for short tickers such as `F` no longer return unrelated listings (Lufax 0VU2.F); results that don't mention the requested company are skipped.
- More quote-page patterns are filtered out.

### 11 November 2026: prices and watchlist monitor

- **Lower prices:** VADER sentiment $5 per 1,000 articles (was $20), LLM sentiment $30 per 1,000 (was $50), plus discounts on paid Apify plans.
- **New: watchlist monitor mode.** Scheduled runs analyze and charge only articles not seen before (`onlyNewArticles`, `watchlistId`).
- **New: alerts.** Post new-article summaries to Slack, Discord or any JSON webhook (n8n, Make, Zapier) with `alertWebhookUrl`.
- **Fix:** if the LLM engine is unavailable, the run falls back to VADER and charges the VADER price instead of the LLM price.
- Output schema for the run Output tab and AI agents; default memory lowered to 1 GB.