finlight

finlight provides a real-time financial news API with ticker, exchange, and source filters, sentiment analysis, and WebSocket streaming.

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About finlight

finlight is a web-based financial news API for developers and applications that need financial news in real time. Users can request articles over HTTP, receive live data over WebSocket streams, or have events pushed to their own endpoints through webhooks. Queries can be filtered by ticker, exchange, and source, and combined with boolean operators, quoted phrases, and exclusion terms.

Each article in the sample response includes a sentiment label with a confidence score and extracted company details such as ticker, exchange, sector, and ISIN. The homepage lists a free trial, and it does not state full pricing. The API tester requires a free account.

Key features

  • REST API for on-demand news requests using HTTP POST
  • WebSocket streams for live financial news data
  • Webhooks that push event notifications to a user-specified endpoint
  • Filtering by ticker, exchange, and source in queries
  • Boolean operators, quoted phrases, and exclusion terms in queries
  • Article-level sentiment labels with confidence scores
  • Company extraction with ticker, exchange, sector, and ISIN fields
Best for: Developers and teams building applications that need financial news filtered by ticker, exchange, or source, with sentiment data.
Good for
  • Offers three integration methods: REST, WebSocket, and webhooks
  • Supports detailed query syntax with field filters and boolean logic
  • Sample responses include sentiment and company metadata for each article
Watch out for
  • Full pricing is not stated on the homepage; only a trial is listed
  • Testing with custom queries requires a free account

finlight at a glance

Type
Online tool
Pricing
Free trial
Platforms
Web
Open source
Not stated
Language
English
Last checked
Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
Listed
Oct 5, 2026

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finlight FAQ

Is there a free trial?
The homepage offers a free trial through a Start Free Trial button. Full pricing details are not stated in the source.
Do I need an account to test queries?
Access to the full API testing suite, which allows custom queries and filters, requires a free account.
How are search queries written?
Queries can use field filters such as ticker:, exchange:, and source:, along with AND, OR, quoted phrases, and a minus sign to exclude terms.
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