Market Sentiment Scraper: Fear & Greed Index for Stocks and Crypto

One run, one clean snapshot of how fearful or greedy the market is right now, with the numbers behind it. Built for trading dashboards, risk models, newsletters, and AI agents that need a sentiment reading they can act on without parsing a web page.

What you get

Stocks: CNN Business Fear & Greed Index. The headline score (0 to 100) and rating, the previous close, one-week, one-month and one-year values, the change against each, and all seven components the index is built from, each with its own score, rating, and raw value:

• market momentum (S&P 500 vs its 125-day average)
• stock price strength (net 52-week highs minus lows)
• stock price breadth (McClellan volume summation)
• put/call options ratio
• market volatility (VIX)
• junk bond demand (yield spread)
• safe haven demand (stocks vs bonds, 20 days)

Plus the VIX level and put/call ratio at top level, one-year statistics (min, max, mean, and where today's score sits as a percentile), and up to 250 trading days of daily history.

Crypto: Fear & Greed Index from Alternative.me: value, classification, time to the next update, one-day and seven-day change, statistics, and daily history back to 2018 if you want it.

{
  "kind": "stocks_fear_greed",
  "timestamp": "2026-10-20T07:54:01+00:00",
  "score": 23.56,
  "rating": "extreme fear",
  "previous_close": 23.11,
  "change_1d": 0.46,
  "change_1w": -20.55,
  "vix": 18.59,
  "put_call_ratio": 0.8305,
  "components": {
    "market_volatility": {"score": 21.54, "rating": "extreme fear", "value": 18.59, "measures": "VIX close"},
    "put_call_options": {"score": 15.4, "rating": "extreme fear", "value": 0.8305}
  },
  "stats_1y": {"min": 7.2, "max": 78.1, "mean": 48.3, "percentile_of_current": 14.3, "points": 252},
  "history": [{"date": "2026-09-21", "score": 44.1, "rating": "neutral"}]
}

Options

• Indexes: stocks, crypto, or both (default).
• History days: how much daily history to include, default 30. Set 0 for the snapshot only.
• History as separate records: push one record per day, with every component's value on that day, instead of embedding history. Useful for backtests and charts.

Pricing

Pay per event: one sentiment-snapshot event per index fetched (two per run with both indexes), and one sentiment-history-point event per daily record when History as separate records is on. Embedded history inside the snapshot is free.

Scheduling

Both indexes update daily. Schedule the Actor once a day after the US close for a complete series, or every few hours for intraday readings of the CNN index.

Data and attribution

Stock market sentiment comes from the CNN Business Fear & Greed Index and crypto sentiment from the Alternative.me Crypto Fear & Greed Index. Every record carries a source field naming its index; keep that attribution next to the data when you publish it, as Alternative.me requires. The Actor sends a declared user agent and makes one request per index per run.