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Stock news API: the headlines on a ticker over a date range, as rows your agent can read

Give your agent a ticker and a date range and get the news on that company back as rows: headline, source, summary, time and the link. Finnhub answers it, $0.02, so the first question of every forum thread, which free news API is worth trying, costs nothing to settle. What comes back is headlines and summaries, not full text and not a sentiment score; the reading is the agent's job, and it is the part it is good at.

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What’s the best way to ask ChatGPT?

1Set your agent up, once

in your agent's chat

set up olywork — https://olywork.com/llms.txt

2Ask for the job

the prompt

Using olywork, get the news on NVDA from the last seven days, drop anything that is not about the company itself, and give me the five stories that matter with one line each and the source link.

works in

Why this prompt works

Give a symbol and two dates

The call takes a ticker and a from and to date. A week is a page; a year is a lot of pages.

Ask it to filter

Finnhub tags stories to a symbol and the tagging is loose. Ask the agent to drop the ones that only mention the sector.

Score it yourself

The rows carry the headline and summary. Sentiment, themes and 'does this matter' are the agent's to judge.

Try free, run on your key

The daily allowance is for finding out whether the feed suits you. A bot that polls all day needs your own Finnhub key, never metered.

Why olywork.com

Why go through olywork.com

One key, not 9 accounts

olywork.com holds the provider keys. Neither you nor the agent sees them.

Price before the call

The provider's own rate, $0.000 markup, from a prepaid balance.

No subscription, no seats

Charged per call. $1.00 free per new team, no card to start.

Your own keys are free

Already pay Hunter? Register it and those calls are never metered.

Switch by changing a word

Another provider is a different word in the prompt, not a new integration.

Nothing to integrate

No SDK, no OAuth dance per vendor, no seats.

Behind the scenes

What ChatGPT sees before it calls

olywork.com does not choose for you. It hands ChatGPT this comparison, with the price shown before any call, and ChatGPT picks. Or you tell it how: "cheapest", "most reliable", "the one that takes what I have", or a provider by name.

Which is cheapest?

Cheapest per found

Financial Datasets at $0.02

How do they compare?

Provider	Price	Accepts	Success rate	Verified
Financial Datasets	$0.02 per found	ticker, limit, cursor	not yet measured	2026-09-15
Finnhub	free, 50 calls a day on olywork.com's key, then your own key	symbol, from, to	not yet measured	2026-08-15

Run one

the cheapest verified call

olywork call financialdatasets.news --query ticker=AAPL --query limit=1

Swap the id for any provider above. All 2 endpoints behind this job, with their parameters and captured responses, are on the Stock Market Data shelf.

How these numbers are made

PricesEach provider’s own published rate, converted to US dollars for one chargeable event of the unit they bill in. olywork.com adds $0.000. Where a provider bills in credits, the conversion uses the rate on their public pricing page, last checked 2026-09-15.

Success rateolywork.com’s own served calls over the last 30 days: 2xx counts as a success, 5xx and timeouts as a failure. A 4xx is excluded, because it usually means the caller sent bad parameters and one bad query should not make a healthy endpoint look broken.

What this is notA controlled benchmark. These are real calls with real inputs, so sample sizes and the difficulty of what was asked differ by provider. Treat the rates as live reliability, not a like-for-like test.

VerifiedThe date olywork.com last called the endpoint end to end and confirmed the shape of its response and the price it charged.

From the field

What people actually struggle with

Stock news threads are half vendors: about 30 of the ~190 Reddit and X posts in August 2026 were news APIs pitching themselves, two of them in five subreddits each with the same 'I polled the free ones and then found this' arc. These four are people building on their own.

The first thing the model admits is that it cannot see the market

“Then on the second day ChatGPT told me, "Uh... I can't actually see live stock prices."” r/ClaudeAI, 432 points

What this page can do about it: That poster spent eight months wiring data in by hand, and Finnhub's news was one of the feeds. One setup line gives the agent the same call, with the price of every other tool shown before it spends anything.

Free tiers are for trying, not for the backtest

“Their free tiers don't provide enough history for a proper multi-year backtest.” r/algotrading, 13 points

What this page can do about it: True of this one as well. The allowance settles whether the feed fits; a multi-year pull is your own key and Finnhub's plan, and the page says so instead of hiding the cliff behind a free badge.

Nobody knows which news feed is actually current

“I have seen some reviews of Polygon.io saying their news feed is outdated by months” r/algotrading, 17 points

What this page can do about it: No comparison table can answer that honestly for your tickers. The cheap test is the point of the allowance: pull last week on five symbols today and read the timestamps yourself.

The tagging puts stories under the wrong symbol

“company news sometimes gets tagged with the wrong symbol because I'm trusting Finnhub's endpoint scoping instead of double-checking it.” X

What this page can do about it: A known property of the feed, so make the agent do the double-checking: keep the headline and summary, drop what is not about the company, and carry the URL for anything it flags as material.

The detail

What actually differs

The free allowance is a trial, not a plan.

olywork.com serves Finnhub's company news on its own free-tier key at 50 calls a day per team; past that the call is refused with a hint to connect your own key, and on your own key nothing is metered. Finnhub's free tier carries its own rate limit and, per Finnhub's own docs, this endpoint covers North American companies, so a UK or Indian ticker is not this tool's job.

Symbol tagging is Finnhub's, and it is generous.

A story about the chip sector arrives under every chip ticker, and at least one builder in the research shipped wrong-symbol rows by trusting the scoping. Ask the agent to check that the headline is about the company, and to keep the article URL so a human can verify the ones that count.

This is headlines and summaries, delivered after publication, not a real-time wire.

The forum wants full text from the paywalled sources and a sentiment number; no free feed gives either, and this page will not pretend to. What the rows are good for is the morning brief, the earnings-week watch, and a pre-trade sanity check on what happened overnight.

Background

What is a stock news API?

A stock news API returns the news articles tagged to a company as data, by ticker and date range, so a program can read them instead of a person scrolling a feed. Each row is a headline, the source, a summary, a timestamp and the article's URL. It is not the article itself, which stays on the publisher's site, and it is not a verdict on whether the news is good; providers that sell sentiment scores layer that on top, and this endpoint does not.

Questions

Before you start

Is the stock news API free?

50 calls a day per team on olywork.com's own Finnhub key, free, which is enough to try it and to run a daily brief on a handful of tickers. Beyond that, register your own Finnhub key and the calls are never metered by olywork.com.

Does it include sentiment?

No. The rows are headline, source, summary, time and URL. Sentiment is the agent's reading, or a separate provider's product; this endpoint returns the news, not a score on it.

Do I get the full article?

No. You get the headline, a summary and the link. Full text from paywalled outlets is not something any news API on the free side hands out, and the link is there so a person can read the ones that matter.

Can I build a trading bot on it?

Not on the free allowance, which is a daily trial, and not as a real-time signal: the feed is post-publication. On your own key a polling bot is between you and Finnhub's limits; the news is an input for the agent to reason over, not a trigger.