Yahoo Finance Article Scraper

Extract full article text, headline, and metadata from finance.yahoo.com article URLs. Yahoo Finance aggregates financial news from multiple sources alongside original reporting, covering markets, stocks, ETFs, earnings, and macroeconomic trends.

Why Use This Actor?

• Market news aggregation - Yahoo Finance pulls from Reuters, AP, Motley Fool, and other sources in one place.
• Stock research automation - extract earnings reports, analyst notes, and company news programmatically.
• Financial NLP datasets - Yahoo Finance market coverage provides consistent financial language for model training.
• Multi-source access - a single Yahoo Finance URL may aggregate content from several wire services.

How It Works

This actor uses only HTTP requests - no browser, no Selenium, no Playwright. Articles are extracted in seconds with RAM usage well under 256 MB.

Input

{
  "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/example-slug",
  "urls": [
    "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/article-one-abc123.html",
    "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/article-two-xyz"
  ]
,
  "mode": "article",
  "limit": 10
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/wall-street-just-sent-oil-203300330.html",
  "source": "Yahoo Finance",
  "title": "Wall Street just sent oil stocks a brutal message after Iran’s move",
  "content": "U.S.stocksjumped onApril 17,closing on a very healthy noteto end the week afterIransaid theStrait of Hormuzwill stay operational during theIsrael-Lebanon ceasefire.

That eased fears of a majoroil supply shock. TheDowrose more than 900 points, theS&P 500climbed above 7,100 for the first time, and theNasdaqalso hit a fresh intraday high. At the same time, oil prices are now in freefall.Brent crudefell to about $88.90 a barrel andU.S...."
}

Fetch Latest News

Set mode to "latest" to fetch the newest article URLs and titles from Yahoo Finance instead of extracting a single article.

Input:

{
  "mode": "latest",
  "limit": 10
}

Output - array of objects:

[
  {
    "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/wall-street-just-sent-oil-203300330.html",
    "title": "Wall Street just sent oil stocks a brutal message after Iran’s move",
    "published_date": "2026-04-19T20:33:00Z",
    "source": "Yahoo Finance"
  }
  //...
]

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rssindex (RSS feed)

Notes

• Works on both finance.yahoo.com/news/ and finance.yahoo.com/markets/ article URL formats
• Yahoo Finance ticker pages (e.g., /quote/AAPL) and screener pages are not supported

Other News Actors

Need a different news source? All actors in this collection:

Actor	Source
aljazeera-scraper	Al Jazeera
apnews-scraper	AP News
bbc-scraper	BBC News
cnbc-scraper	CNBC
forbes-scraper	Forbes
fortune-scraper	Fortune
ft-scraper	Financial Times
guardian-scraper	The Guardian
msn-scraper	MSN News
nytimes-scraper	New York Times
reuters-scraper	Reuters
scmp-scraper	South China Morning Post
techcrunch-scraper	TechCrunch
upi-scraper	UPI
yahoo-finance-scraper	Yahoo Finance
smart-news-loader	Any URL - adaptive HTTP loader
bloomberg-scraper	Bloomberg

All actors support mode: "latest" for fetching newest article URLs from each source.