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NSE India Scraper for Quotes, Options and Filings
NSE India shows each stock with its ISIN, series, price band and delivery percentage, and refreshes the option chain all session. Our NSE India scraper records it on your schedule.
Plans from €169 a month · Free project assessment · Reply within 1 business day
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nseindia.comwhat you get
Typical fields for financial sites
tickerpricechange_pctvolumemarket_capupdated_at
Delivery
API, JSON feed or CSV, XLSX and JSON files
ScheduleOne-time, monthly, weekly, daily or 3 times a day
Scrape NSE India Without Running a Crawler
- You send
NSE India pages, filters, fields and a schedule
- We run the scrapers
Built, monitored and repaired by our team
- You receive the data
API, JSON feed or CSV, XLSX and JSON files
Pick the segments you need - equity quotes for a symbol list, the full option chain for index and stock options, the day's announcements across Equity, SME and Debt, or the deal and flow reports - and the times of day at which a snapshot matters. We build the crawler for nseindia.com, schedule it around trading hours in IST and keep it running as the exchange revises its pages. Web scraping NSE India well is mostly about timing and units: rendering, pacing and proxy rotation are handled on our side, values printed in lakh (L) and crore (Cr) come back as plain numbers, and every row keeps the exchange's own timestamp. The field guide arrives with the first file.
NSE India Data We Extract From Quote Pages
A quote page on nseindia.com is keyed by the trading symbol, prints the ISIN beside the company name and names the series the stock trades in - EQ for the normal market, T0 for same-day settlement. Those three identifiers anchor every row we deliver:
- Price blockPrev. Close, Open, High, Low, Close, VWAP, Adjusted Price and the last price with its change, stamped with the "As on" time in IST.
- Trade informationTraded Volume, Traded Value, Total Market Cap, Free Float Market Cap, Impact cost, Face Value, Applicable Margin Rate and % of Deliverable / Traded Quantity.
- Price information52 Week High and 52 Week Low with the date each was set, Upper Band, Lower Band, Price Band (%), Tick Size, Daily Volatility and Annualised Volatility.
- Securities informationStatus, Trading Status, Symbol P/E, Adjusted P/E, Date of Listing, the index the stock belongs to, such as NIFTY 50, and Basic Industry.
- Returnsthe stock's absolute return over one week, one month, year to date, one, three and five years, set against NIFTY 50 for the same periods.
- Daily trade historydate, series, open, high, low, previous close, LTP, close, VWAP, 52-week high and low, volume, value and number of trades per session.
Why the delivery column matters. The delivery percentage separates shares that changed owners from intraday turnover, and the exchange prints it on the quote page for the latest session only - the daily trade table does not carry it. Desks that read accumulation from it need the figure captured every day, so we store each session's value with its date.
NSE India Option Chain, Deals and Corporate Filings
Beyond the quote, the exchange publishes registers that matter more to many buyers than the price itself.
- Option chainFor index options such as NIFTY, BANKNIFTY, FINNIFTY, MIDCPNIFTY and NIFTYNXT50, and for every stock in the F&O list, each strike price shows calls and puts side by side: OI (open interest), change in OI, volume, IV (implied volatility), LTP, change, and bid and ask with quantities, for the expiry you select, under the underlying value and the time it was read.
- Bulk deals and block dealsDate, symbol, security name, client name, buy or sell, quantity traded, trade price or weighted average price, and remarks, with a separate short selling archive next to them.
- FII and DII activityBuy, sell and net value in rupee crores for FII/FPI and DII, for NSE alone and for NSE, BSE and MSEI combined.
- Corporate announcements and actionsSymbol, company, subject, details, attachment and broadcast date and time across Equity, SME, Debt, MF and REIT/InvIT; corporate actions with purpose, face value, ex-date, record date and book closure dates.
- IPOsCurrent, upcoming and past issues for Equity, SME, InvITs and REITs, with issue price, price range, issue dates, date of listing and, while an issue is open, bids against shares offered and the subscription multiple. Join the issue price with the first session's close and listing gain becomes a column.
Client names in deal reports can belong to individuals; for natural persons we leave the name out by default and keep the trade.
About nseindia.com, the National Stock Exchange Site
- Source
- nseindia.com
- Category
- financial sites
- Delivery
- API, JSON feed, CSV, XLSX
- Plans
- From €169 a month
nseindia.com is the public website of the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd, and it carries far more than a quote board. Its top menu includes Market Data, Invest, List, Trade, Regulation, Learn, Resources and Research, and the market data side alone splits into equity and SME market watches, indices, ETFs, sovereign gold bonds, REITs and InvITs, SLB, and equity, currency, commodity and interest rate derivatives.
Every page carries its own clock. The equity market watch shows a market status line, the advances, declines and unchanged count for the chosen index and an "As on" time; the option chain names the underlying value and the minute it was taken. A symbol such as TCS can trade in the cash market, the F&O segment and the SLB market at once, and its quote page carries a tab for each.
Corporate filings are the other half of the site. Under Corporate Filings sit announcements, annual reports, board meetings, corporate actions, financial results, shareholding patterns, insider trading, SAST disclosures, voting results and dozens more registers, most of them split by segment and searchable by company, subject and period. For a buyer of NSE data the point is that one exchange publishes both the market tape and the disclosures behind it under the same symbols, which makes the two easy to join.
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NSE India scraping plans and pricing
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsUses for NSE India Market Data
Each register on the site answers a different desk's question, and most of them only become useful as a series.
- Derivatives analyticsSnapshots of the option chain through the session give OI build-up by strike, put-call ratios and IV skew for each expiry, while the page itself shows only the current reading.
- Price band monitoringUpper Band, Lower Band and Price Band (%) on each quote set how far a stock may move in a session, and the Price Band Hitters list shows which stocks reached a limit; a daily capture keeps the record of every band change.
- Institutional flowFII and DII net values, together with the bulk and block deal register, show who moved size, on which day and at what price.
- Event studiesAnnouncements with broadcast times and corporate actions with ex-dates and record dates line up against the daily trade history for return windows around results, dividends and rights issues.
- IPO researchIssue price and listing date per issue, with the subscription multiple captured while the issue is open, joined with early trading prices, give a record of listing performance across main board and SME issues.
- Volatility contextIndia VIX next to the Daily and Annualised Volatility of each stock.
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About ScrapeIt
ScrapeIt is a managed scraping service: our team designs, runs and maintains the crawlers, and you receive the data. Exchange websites are among the most demanding sources we handle, because values change by the second during trading and one quote page spreads a stock's figures across several tabs. For NSE India we time runs to the IST trading day, keep the exchange's timestamps, normalise lakh and crore units and hand over a field guide with the dataset. Start with a free assessment of your symbol list and the reports you need.
FAQ
Still unsure? Write to info@scrapeit.io
Do you offer an NSE India API for option chain and quote data?
Yes. The ScrapeIt NSE India API serves option chain rows by strike, last price, VWAP, delivery percentage, price band and the latest announcements in JSON, from an endpoint we run and refresh at the intervals you pick during the trading day. The same records can arrive as CSV or XLSX files or be loaded straight into your database; an MCP server is available on request.
Is it legal to scrape NSE India?
Yes. Quote pages, the option chain, deal reports and corporate filings on nseindia.com open to any visitor. We collect only publicly available data - what anyone browsing NSE India can see - and we collect it legally. What we deliver is market data and filings, never trading advice.
How do you get NSE India historical data for a symbol list?
Each quote page has a Historical Data tab with a session-by-session trade table - open, high, low, close, VWAP, volume, value and number of trades - plus views for bulk and block deals and periodic highs and lows. We collect that table for each symbol and series over the periods the page offers, and scheduled runs then add every new session, so the record stays continuous from the first delivery on.
How often is NSE India option chain data updated?
During market hours the chain moves with every trade: OI, change in OI, IV, bid and ask shift from one refresh to the next, and the page stamps the underlying value with the time it was read. Intraday studies usually snapshot the near expiries every few minutes and the far ones less often, while end-of-day users need one run after the close. We schedule either and keep every snapshot with its timestamp.
What is in an NSE India dataset of corporate announcements?
Each row carries the symbol, company name, the subject - Outcome of Board Meeting, Acquisition, Press Release and so on - the details line, the broadcast date and time to the second, and a link to the attachment with its size. Filters by segment, company and subject cut the stream to your universe, and attachments such as results PDFs can be delivered as files on SFTP or Google Cloud Storage.
How it works
- 1
Make a request
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
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We configure the crawlers
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
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Collect and deliver
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
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Maintain and support
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
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- We sign an NDA on request
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