💰 Global Markets Intelligence Pipeline

Turn raw financial news into actionable market alpha.

This Actor is a high-performance intelligence agent that monitors the web's top Financial, Economic, and Crypto sources (Bloomberg, FT, Reuters, Alpha Vantage). It doesn't just "scrape" news—it reads, analyzes, and structures it into specific data points like Tickers ($), Market Impact Scores, and Sentiment using state-of-the-art AI.

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🚀 Why Use This Actor?

Most scrapers just give you a title and a link. We give you financial intelligence.

🧠 1. AI-Powered Analyst

Every article is processed by a Large Language Model to extract niche-specific data:

• 💲 Ticker Extraction: Automatically identifies stock, crypto, and forex tickers mentioned (e.g., "$AAPL", "$BTC", "$EURUSD").
• 💯 Market Impact Score (0-100): Instantly filter noise. Know if a story is "General Updates" (15/100) or a "Market Moving Event" (95/100).
• 📈 Sentiment Analysis: Clear Bullish / Bearish / Neutral classification.
• 🏷️ Categorization: Auto-tags content as Corporate Earnings, Monetary Policy, M&A, etc.

🛡️ 2. "Unblockable" Architecture

Financial sites are notoriously hard to scrape. We use a robust "Scrape-First, Search-Fallback" engine:

1. Attempt 1: High-speed direct scraping of the article HTML.
2. Attempt 2: If blocked (403/429), the Actor automatically queries Brave Search API to reconstruct the context from rich snippets. You always get data, never a blank page.

📢 3. Real-Time Trading Alerts

Connect a Discord Webhook to automatically post beautiful, color-coded alerts for high-impact market news directly to your trading server or research group.

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🛠️ Setup & Configuration (Critical)

To protect your credentials, this Actor requires API keys to be set as Apify Secrets, not input parameters.

Step 1: Set Environment Variables

Before running, go to your Actor's Settings > Environment Variables (or use the "Secrets" tab) and add:

Variable Name	Description	Required?
OPENROUTER_API_KEY	Your key from OpenRouter.ai. Used for AI analysis.	YES
BRAVE_API_KEY	Your Data Search API key from Brave. Used for unblocking content.	YES
ALPHA_VANTAGE_API	Your key from Alpha Vantage. Required only if using the "Alpha Vantage News" source.	Optional

Step 2: Configure Inputs

Field	Description
News Category	Choose from curated sectors (Index/Market Data, Crypto, FinTech, Monetary Policy) or provide a custom RSS URL.
Max Articles	Limit the number of items to process (Recommended: 10-50 per run).
Search Region	Bias the fallback search engine to a specific market (e.g., US US, UK GB, China CN).
Discord Webhook	(Optional) Paste a Discord Webhook URL to receive instant alerts for high-impact news.

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📊 Data Output

The Actor saves results to the Apify Dataset. We provide a rich Table View in the console for instant scanning.

JSON Example

{
  "title": "Fed Signals Potential Rate Cut in Q3 as Inflation Cools",
  "url": "[https://example.com/markets/fed-rate-decision](https://example.com/markets/fed-rate-decision)",
  "published": "2025-11-30T14:30:00Z",
  "content_type": "Monetary Policy",
  "market_impact_score": 95,
  "sentiment": "Bullish",
  "affected_tickers": ["$SPY", "$QQQ", "$USD"],
  "key_entities": ["Jerome Powell", "Federal Reserve"],
  "summary": "The Federal Reserve held rates steady but signaled a high likelihood of a rate cut in September due to cooling inflation data.",
  "data_source_method": "Brave Search Fallback"
}

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💰 Pricing & Monetization

This Actor uses a Pay-Per-Event model.

• Event: article-summary
• Cost: You are charged a small fee for every successfully analyzed article.
• Note: You are NOT charged for failed scrapes, duplicates, or test runs.

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👨‍💻 For Developers

This Actor is built on a modular Python architecture using LangGraph for workflow orchestration.

• Reliability: Includes a runTestMode for zero-cost integration testing (passes Apify QA automatically).
• Tech Stack: Python 3.11, Pydantic, OpenAI SDK (OpenRouter), BeautifulSoup4, Brave Search API.

Legal Disclaimer: This tool provides information for educational and research purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice. Trading involves significant risk.