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Financial news,
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A REST API for financial news from 24 premium sources — Reuters, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal. No keys. No quotas. Just data, returned as JSON.

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  • Reuters World News
  • Yahoo Finance
  • MarketWatch
  • CNBC Top News
  • Benzinga
  • Bloomberg Markets
  • CNBC Markets
  • WSJ Markets
  • FT Markets
  • Seeking Alpha
  • Business Insider
  • Google News
  • Yahoo Finance Top
  • Bloomberg Technology
  • Forbes Innovation
  • WSJ Business
  • Forbes Business
  • CNBC Investing
  • Motley Fool
  • Seeking Alpha Ideas
  • IBD Stock Market
  • The Economist
  • Investopedia
  • SEC EDGAR

Articles indexed

24

Premium sources

7

Categories

$0

Per request, forever

01 / Quick Start

Copy. Paste. Ship.

Four endpoints. One curl command. Useful data inside ten seconds.

01

Get Latest News

Fetch the most recent articles

$ curl https://actually-free-api.vercel.app/api/news
02

Filter by Ticker

Get articles about specific stocks

$ curl https://actually-free-api.vercel.app/api/news?ticker=AAPL
03

Search Keywords

Find articles containing text

$ curl https://actually-free-api.vercel.app/api/news?search=earnings
04

Filter by Date

Get articles within a date range

$ curl "https://actually-free-api.vercel.app/api/news?startDate=2025-01-01"

02 / Response Shape

Clean JSON. No surprises.

Article metadata, pre-extracted ticker symbols, deterministic pagination.

GETapi.actually-free-api.vercel.app/api/news▍
{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
      "title": "Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft ($MSFT) Lead Tech Rally",
      "description": "Major technology stocks saw significant gains today...",
      "link": "https://example.com/article/tech-rally",
      "pub_date": "2025-01-20T14:30:00Z",
      "source": "Reuters",
      "tickers": [
        "AAPL",
        "MSFT"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "page": 1,
    "limit": 20,
    "total": 1547,
    "totalPages": 78
  }
}

03 / The Network

24 sources. One stream.

Premium financial outlets, polled continuously and de-duplicated.

Reuters World News

General

Yahoo Finance

General

MarketWatch

General

CNBC Top News

General

Benzinga

General

Bloomberg Markets

Markets

CNBC Markets

Markets

WSJ Markets

Markets

FT Markets

Markets

Seeking Alpha

Markets

Business Insider

Markets

Google News

Markets

Yahoo Finance Top

Markets

Bloomberg Technology

Technology

Forbes Innovation

Technology

WSJ Business

Business

Forbes Business

Business

CNBC Investing

Investing

Motley Fool

Investing

Seeking Alpha Ideas

Stocks

IBD Stock Market

Stocks

The Economist

Specialized

Investopedia

Specialized

SEC EDGAR

Specialized

04 / Endpoints

Three routes. That's it.

Read-only HTTP. Cached at the edge. Public, deterministic, boring.

GET/api/news

Fetch news articles with filtering, search, ticker symbols, and pagination

GET/api/sources

List all RSS feed sources organized by category

GET/api/stats

Get API statistics including article counts and database info

05 / Why

Built for developers who'd rather just ship.

Zero Auth

No keys. No signup. No billing surface. Just hit the endpoint.

24+ Premium Feeds

Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC, WSJ, FT — aggregated continuously.

Ticker Extraction

NLP-powered symbol detection on every article. Filter by AAPL.

30-Day Archive

Historical financial news with date range queries built in.

Ready when you are

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