🔑 How to get a free Marketaux API token
Marketaux issues an API token immediately on signup.
- Create an account. Sign up at marketaux.com — the free plan needs no card.
- Copy your API token. It's displayed on your dashboard after signup.
- Query news. GET https://api.marketaux.com/v1/news/all?symbols=TSLA,AMZN&filter_entities=true&api_token=YOUR_TOKEN.
- Use sentiment data. Each matched entity includes a sentiment score — filter with sentiment_gte/sentiment_lte for bullish/bearish screens.
📚 Documentation & Examples
Everything you need to integrate with MarketAux
🚀 Quick Start Examples
// MarketAux API Example
const response = await fetch('https://www.marketaux.com/', {
method: 'GET',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);The Marketaux API offers real-time, live stock market news complemented with tagged tickers, analytical sentiment, and assorted statistics. This multifaceted JSON API ensures that you are receiving accurate, robust, and comprehensive data all in a format that is both straightforward and easily integrated. The superior technology behind Marketaux mines and analyses information from numerous sources to present a clear snapshot of the global financial landscape in real-time.
Interaction with the API is as simple as it is versatile with the documentation available at Marketaux Documentation. You have the ability to customize your queries, enabling you to access precise information and time-sensitive statistics about any stock you're interested in. Whether it's the latest bullish or bearish sentiment on a particular security, or the overall pulse of the market - the Marketaux API provides it all.
Benefits of the Marketaux API include:
- Direct access to real-time, comprehensive market information.
- Sentiment analysis to gain insights on market mood.
- Easily identifiable tagged tickers for efficient data navigation.
- Robust statistics for in-depth market analytics.
- Simplified handling of data with JSON responses.
Here is a JavaScript example for calling the Marketaux API:
var request = require('request');
var options = {
'method': 'GET',
'url': 'https://www.marketaux.com/api/news?id=insert_your_stock_ticker',
'headers': {
'api-key': 'insert_your_api_key_here'
}
};
request(options, function (error, response) {
if (error) throw new Error(error);
console.log(response.body);
});
Important: Replace 'insert_your_stock_ticker' and 'insert_your_api_key_here' with your actual stock ticker and API key.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Marketaux API free?
There's a free plan (limited daily requests and delayed/limited articles per response) for development; paid plans raise volume and unlock more results per request.
What are alternatives to Marketaux for financial news APIs?
Finnhub (free tier with news), Alpha Vantage news & sentiment, Polygon.io news, and StockNewsAPI are the closest comparisons.
