Chapter 63 – Company Financial News Scraper for the Top-down Analysis Using Easy2Digital News API

Industry and company up-to-date news helps you keep pace with the stock company you invested. Nevertheless, it is time consuming if you check one by one out of your investment dashboard. I daresay you feel excited if your stock dashboard can automatically refresh the company news every day using a financial news scraper. As a result, you can make decision always along with top-down industry and company news.

In this article, I’m going to introduce Easy2Digital financial news API 1.0 with the API script sample. With this API, you can build a financial news scraper for your specific collection of company symbols and integrate it with your stock monitor.

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Industry and company up-to-date news helps you keep pace with the stock company you invested in. Nevertheless, it is time-consuming if you check your one by one your investment dashboard. I daresay you feel excited if your stock dashboard can automatically refresh the company news every day using a financial news scraper. As a result, you can make decisions always along with top-down industry and company news.

In this article, I’m going to introduce Easy2Digital financial news API 1.0 with the API script sample. With this API, you can build a financial news scraper for your specific collection of company symbols and integrate it with your stock monitor.

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Pros and cons to make more time by using Easy2Digital Financial News Scraper

Pros

  • Collect and consolidate any symbol new’s data as you like in one place or dashboard. It saves time to quickly add your preferred company news and check those with other financial data as well. It facilitates your analysis of potential capital gain opportunities.
  • Specifically provide the news release date, title, and article link.
  • Easy2Digital API has a free version with 5 requests per day

Cons

  • Compared to the paid software out there, It requires simple programming knowledge and script maintenance and upgrades
  • The free API version has a limited quota every day
  • Activating automation using the cloud might have additional fees although the amount is small and it charges pay-as-to-go normally.

Easy2Digital News API 1.0 Intro

E2D news API has thousands of financial news from 40,000+ stock symbols worldwide. The news media has 200+ and covers global, regional, and local financial media, such as Financial Times, Nikkei Japan, etc. The responding data type is JSON. For the API-free users, the API request quota is 5 per day. If you are interested in paid version, please subscribe to our newsletter by leaving a message “Paid version of E2D news API token.

financial news scraper

Below is the script sample using the free version API:

apiTesting = requests.get("https://marketing-bots.herokuapp.com/api/1/symbolNews?token=" + tokenXYZ + "&symbol=" + symbolddd)

apiTesting2 = apiTesting.json()

Data parameter name:

  • News Title
  • News Source
  • News URL
  • News Date

Why the bullish or bearish company news is crucial for company valuation and investment determination?

From a finance and marketing perspective, there are two reasons investors need an automatic news update system:

1. Pricing up or down and earning opportunities are being affected by the market sentiment and expectations owing to company events.

  • Industry’s news
  • New business, taxation, and compliance polity issued by the government
  • Cost of debt arising or decreasing news released by country central banks
  • Company new position hiring
  • Management team update
  • Recruitment and laid-off news

2. Investment is a calculation game. For the foreseeable growth owing to the new profitability standpoint, it implies kind of the lowest level to buy in.

  • Merge & acquisition
  • New product trailer & launch
  • Investment activities
  • New market entry & office announcement
  • Technology Adoption
  • New Partnerships
  • Quarterly and annual financial performance reports

API Financial News’ Media Scope: Global & Local 200+

financial news scraper

There is a wide range of financial media. They are but are not limited on:

  1. Fortune, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Bloomberg, CNN, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal
  2. Telegraph, Independent, InvestorPlace, Motley Fool, Fool.com, Insider Money, Investopedia, Simply Wall St., Business Wire, Zacks, Matchwatch

By using Easy2Digital news API, you can fetch those new by symbol. For example, you can use the symbol “aapl”, which is the Apple stock symbol, to only retrieve the financial and business news regarding Apple.

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