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Financial Data API Freemium

finlight.me

API 4.3/5 WebAPI

What is finlight.me?

Real-time financial news API with advanced query builder, sentiment analysis, and WebSocket streaming for trading and analysis.

finlight is a real-time financial news API that provides advanced query capabilities, sentiment analysis, and WebSocket streaming. It allows developers to filter news by ticker, exchange, source, and more using boolean logic. The API supports REST, WebSocket, and webhook integrations, making it suitable for trading applications, automated alerts, and financial analysis.

Key Features

Real-time news streaming
Sentiment analysis
Company extraction
Boolean query engine
Field-level filtering
REST API
WebSocket support
Webhook notifications
SDKs for TypeScript and Python
Interactive demo
MCP server for AI assistants

Use Cases

Quantitative traders use real-time WebSocket streams to capture breaking news with sentiment scores, enabling automated trade execution within milliseconds of market-moving events.
Portfolio managers set up webhook alerts for specific tickers and sentiment thresholds, receiving instant notifications when positive or negative news breaks for their holdings.
Financial analysts build custom dashboards using the REST API to aggregate news from multiple sources, filtering by exchange and sector to monitor industry trends.
Compliance teams monitor news for regulatory mentions across thousands of companies, using boolean queries to flag potential issues and generate audit trails.
AI trading bots integrate the API via SDKs to incorporate news sentiment into their decision models, improving prediction accuracy with real-time data.
Content creators use the query builder to fetch curated news articles for financial newsletters, automatically tagging companies and sentiment for each story.
Risk managers set up automated alerts for negative sentiment spikes on specific tickers, enabling proactive portfolio adjustments before market impact.
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Alternatives

Bloomberg API Reuters API Alpha Vantage Polygon.io Finnhub
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does finlight.me do?

Real-time financial news API with advanced query builder, sentiment analysis, and WebSocket streaming for trading and analysis.

What are alternatives to finlight.me?

Popular alternatives to finlight.me include Bloomberg API, Reuters API, Alpha Vantage, Polygon.io, Finnhub.

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