finlight.me

Simple HTTP Requests for On-Demand News

Access financial news via straightforward POST requests to https://api.finlight.me/v2/articles. Perfect for web applications and batch processing, with support for pagination, field filtering, and rich metadata.

Integrate financial news into any application with minimal setup.

Real-Time Data Streams for Live Trading

Subscribe to wss://wss.finlight.me or wss://wss.finlight.me/raw for sub-second latency data streams. Ideal for live trading applications that require immediate market-critical decisions.

Receive financial news with sub-second latency for time-sensitive trading.

Event-Driven Notifications Pushed to Your Endpoint

Set up automated event-driven pushes to your own endpoint. Perfect for automated trading systems and alerts that need to react instantly to new financial news.

Automate responses to breaking news without polling.

Powerful Boolean and Field-Level Filtering

Build complex queries with boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT), inclusion/exclusion operators (+/-), field-level filters (ticker:, exchange:, source:, content:), and grouping with parentheses. Target exactly the news you need.

Filter financial news with surgical precision to get only relevant articles.

AI-Driven Sentiment Analysis

Each article includes a sentiment score (positive, negative, neutral) and confidence level. Analyze market mood and public perception from financial news automatically.

Gain instant insight into market sentiment without manual reading.

Company and Ticker Extraction

Automatically extract mentioned companies with rich metadata: ticker, exchange, ISIN, industry, sector, and primary/other listings. Enhance your data with company-level intelligence.

Enrich news data with structured company information for deeper analysis.

• Real-Time Financial News API with Advanced Query Builderfinlight.me provides a real-time financial news API with AI-driven sentiment analysis and enterprise-grade reliability. It offers three consumption methods: REST API, WebSocket, and Webhooks. The API supports advanced query building with boolean operators, ticker filtering, source filtering, and field exclusions, as demonstrated in the interactive demo scenarios.
• Flexible Pricing Plans for Different NeedsThe pricing page lists four paid plans (Launchpad is free, Pro Light at $29/month, Pro Standard at $99/month, Pro Scale at $249/month) plus an Enterprise tier with custom pricing. Each plan includes specific monthly request limits, real-time access (with Launchpad having a 12-hour delay), and varying features like sentiment analysis, ticker/entities, webhook registrations, and webhook/websocket deliveries.
• Enterprise-Grade Reliability and CustomizationThe Enterprise plan offers unlimited requests, unlimited webhook registrations and deliveries, unlimited WebSocket streams, custom source onboarding, on-premise or private cloud deployment, custom NLP/AI integrations, dedicated account manager, SLAs, custom contract, dedicated priority support, and custom translations. This is aimed at organizations requiring maximum performance and customization.
• Trusted by 100+ Companies WorldwideThe homepage states 'Trusted by 100+ companies worldwide,' indicating a level of market adoption. The API is designed for real-time financial news, sentiment analysis, and company extraction, with features like rich metadata, image URLs, and source information in API responses.

• Pricing Details and ExclusionsThe pricing page clearly states that all prices are in USD or local currency and exclude applicable taxes, with VAT added at checkout based on country. The Launchpad plan does not include webhook registration, ticker/entities, sentiment analysis, or websocket streams. Pro Light does not include sentiment analysis or historical data. Pro Standard includes historical data, but the exact historical data retention period is not specified in the scraped content (only '1 month' is mentioned in the comparison table for Launchpad and Pro Light).
• API Response Examples Use Example DomainsThe API response examples in the demo use example domains like 'www.example-financial-news.com' and 'www.example-business-daily.com' for article links and sources. These are clearly placeholder domains for demonstration purposes, not actual news sources. The actual sources available through the API are not listed in the scraped content.
• WebSocket Endpoints and Latency ClaimsThe WebSocket endpoints are listed as 'wss://wss.finlight.me' and 'wss://wss.finlight.me/raw'. The site claims 'Sub-second latency for market-critical decisions,' but no specific latency metrics or SLAs are provided in the scraped content. The Enterprise plan mentions SLAs, but details are not shown.
• Payment Methods and InfrastructureThe FAQ states they accept all major credit cards and use Stripe's service infrastructure for secure online payments. However, the scraped content does not specify which specific credit card brands are accepted, nor does it mention any other payment methods like PayPal or bank transfers. Also, the FAQ section is cut off, so additional payment or billing details may exist but are not visible.

Real-Time Financial News Monitoring

Finlight.me aggregates financial news from 117 sources across 24 languages, delivering over 5,333 articles per day. Use the REST API to fetch on-demand news data for web applications or batch processing, with support for keyword search, boolean logic, and field-level filtering to target specific sources, tickers, or topics.

AI-Driven Sentiment Analysis

Leverage Finlight.me's AI-powered sentiment analysis to gauge market mood from news articles. The API returns a sentiment label (positive, negative, or neutral) along with a confidence score, enabling you to build trading signals or market intelligence dashboards. Sentiment analysis is included in Pro Standard and Pro Scale plans.

Company and Ticker Extraction

Automatically extract company entities from news articles using Finlight.me's entity recognition. Each article includes detailed company data such as ticker, exchange, industry, sector, ISINs, and other listings. This is ideal for building portfolio tracking tools or alerting systems based on specific companies or tickers.

Live Trading and Alerting with WebSockets & Webhooks

For real-time trading applications, Finlight.me offers WebSocket streams with sub-second latency and webhook notifications pushed to your endpoints. Use these to power automated trading strategies, instant alerts, or live dashboards. WebSocket and webhook features are available on paid plans, with unlimited dispatches on Pro Scale.

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Select your primary interests from the onboarding list — industries, topics, or specific companies you want to follow.

Spend 5 minutes browsing the initial feed and mark stories as relevant or not to train the personalization algorithm.

Set up your first keyword alert for a competitor or industry term to test the real-time monitoring feature.