Historical News #

Access 6+ years of historical stock market and crypto news through a REST API.

Get News #

GET /v1beta1/news
Returns latest news articles across stocks and crypto. By default returns latest 10 news articles.

Parameters #

Query Parameters #

Attribute Type Requirement Notes
symbols string
Optional
List of symbols to obtain news
start timestamp (RFC 3339)
Optional
(Default: 01-01-2015) Start date to obtain news
end timestamp (RFC 3339)
Optional
(Default: now) End date to obtain news
limit string
Optional
(Default: 10, Max: 50) Limit of news items to be returned for given page
sort string
Optional
(Default: DESC) Sort articles by updated date. Options: DESC, ASC
include_content boolean
Optional
(Default: false) Boolean whether to include content for news articles
exclude_contentless boolean
Optional
(Default: false) Exclude news articles that do not contain content (just headline and summary)
page_token string
Optional
Pagination token to continue to next page

Request #

Example request #

curl --location --request GET 'https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta1/news?start=2021-12-28T00:00:00Z&end=2021-12-31T11:59:59Z&symbols=AAPL,TSLA' \
--header 'Apca-Api-Key-Id: <KEY>' \
--header 'Apca-Api-Secret-Key: <SECRET>'

Response #

A list news objects.

Example response #

{
    "news": [
        {
            "id": 24843171,
            "headline": "Apple Leader in Phone Sales in China for Second Straight Month in November With 23.6% Share, According to Market Research Data",
            "author": "Charles Gross",
            "created_at": "2021-12-31T11:08:42Z",
            "updated_at": "2021-12-31T11:08:43Z",
            "summary": "",
            "url": "https://www.benzinga.com/news/21/12/24843171/apple-leader-in-phone-sales-in-china-for-second-straight-month-in-november-with-23-6-share-according",
            "images": [],
            "symbols": [
                "AAPL"
            ],
            "source": "benzinga"
        }
    ],
    "next_page_token": "MTY0MDk0ODkyMzAwMDAwMDAwMHwyNDg0MzE3MQ=="
}

Errors #

403 - Forbidden

Unauthorized

422 - Bad Request

Unprocessable Entity

429 - Too many requests

Rate limit exceeded

News Model #

Example news object #

        {
            "id": 24803233,
            "headline": "Benzinga's Top 5 Articles For 2021 — Or 'Who Let The Dog Out?'",
            "author": "Sue Strachan",
            "created_at": "2021-12-29T15:11:03Z",
            "updated_at": "2021-12-30T20:37:41Z",
            "summary": "2021 may have been the Year of the Ox in the Chinese calendar, but for Benzinga, it was the Year of the Dog, or should we say, Year of the Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE).",
            "content": "<p>2021 may have been the Year of the Ox in the Chinese calendar, but for Benzinga, it was the Year of the Dog, or should we say, Year of the <strong>Dogecoin</strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https://www.benzinga.com/quote/doge/usd\">DOGE</a>).</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The memecoin created in 2013....",
            "images": [
                {
                    "size": "large",
                    "url": "https://cdn.benzinga.com/files/imagecache/2048x1536xUP/images/story/2012/doge_12.jpg"
                },
                {
                    "size": "small",
                    "url": "https://cdn.benzinga.com/files/imagecache/1024x768xUP/images/story/2012/doge_12.jpg"
                },
                {
                    "size": "thumb",
                    "url": "https://cdn.benzinga.com/files/imagecache/250x187xUP/images/story/2012/doge_12.jpg"
                }
            ],
            "symbols": [
                "AMZN",
                "BTCUSD",
                "COIN",
                "DOGEUSD",
                "SPCE",
                "TSLA",
                "TWTR"
            ],
            "source": "benzinga"
        }

Properties #

Attribute Type Notes
headline string Headline or title of the article
created_at string (RFC 3339) Date article was created
updated_at string (RFC 3339) Date article was updated
author string Original author of news article
summary string Summary text for the article (may be first sentence of content)
content string Content of the news article (might contain HTML)
images object List of images (URLs) related to given article (may be empty)
url string URL of article (if applicable)
symbols string[] List of related or mentioned symbols
source string Source where the news originated from (e.g. Benzinga)
id int News article ID

If object contains images, this will be an object of three items with the size of the image and a URL. Possible values for size are thumb, small and large.

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