Every Seeking Alpha ticker page stacks a quote, a key data strip, earnings dates and a stream of analysis headlines. Our Seeking Alpha scraper keeps that public layer in rows.
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Seeking Alpha pages, filters, fields and a schedule
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You send a ticker list - a watchlist, an index, every symbol in one sector - and tell us which parts of the public symbol page matter. We build the crawler, run it on your schedule and repair it when Seeking Alpha changes a template. Anti-bot handling is part of the service: pacing, proxy rotation, CAPTCHA handling and rendering of the tabs the site builds with scripts. Each run returns one row per ticker per day for the quote and key data, plus separate tables for earnings, dividends, headlines and transcript listings, all joined on the ticker. The project starts with a free assessment of your list, you can order a sample before committing to a schedule, and field documentation comes with the first delivery.
A symbol page lives at /symbol/ plus the ticker, and that ticker is the key that joins every table we deliver. Lines listed on other exchanges keep their suffix, such as AAPL:CA for the Canadian listing, so a cross-listed company never collapses into one row. What we extract from the public layer:
Seeking Alpha sells Premium and PRO tiers, and its Quant Ratings, Factor Grades and Dividend Grades sit there. Those columns are not in the dataset: it holds what the page shows a visitor who has not paid, with the time each value was read. Author bylines, real names and pen names alike, are left out by default.
One pass captures today's page. Scheduled passes build Seeking Alpha historical data that no single page keeps in one place.
History begins with the first run, apart from what the pages already list, such as past transcripts and earlier quarters on the Earnings tab.
Seeking Alpha calls itself a platform for investors to research and discuss US-traded stocks and ETFs. Most of its analysis comes from independent investors and analysts, reviewed by the site's editors and published under real names or pen names, beside Seeking Alpha's own news coverage of stocks and ETFs.
Everything hangs on the symbol page. One ticker opens a row of data tabs - Summary, Ratings, Financials, Earnings, Dividends, Valuation, Growth, Profitability, Momentum, Peers, Options and Charting - and a row of content tabs: Analysis, Comments, News, Transcripts & Insights, SEC Filings, Press Releases and Related Analysis. Earnings call transcripts appear under the SA Transcripts byline, next to the shorter Earnings Calls Insights summaries.
The paid tiers decide what a visitor sees. Quant Ratings and Factor Grades are shown to paying subscribers, Dividend Grades are among the Premium features, full transcripts and most articles open only for subscribers, and lock prompts stand in their place. What stays public is still a lot: the quote, the key data strip, earnings dates and estimates, the company profile, headlines with publish times and comment counts, and the head of each transcript. That public layer is exactly what our Seeking Alpha dataset contains.
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsSeeking Alpha's free pages put market numbers and reader attention side by side, which a plain quote site does not.
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ScrapeIt is a managed web scraping service: we build, run and maintain crawlers and deliver the data as files or through our own API. For investing research sites like Seeking Alpha we work from ticker lists, keep one schema from run to run and document every column. Personal data is handled under GDPR, author and commenter names stay out by default, and we do not build profiles of contributors. Plans start from EUR 169 a month, or EUR 199 for a one-time extract.
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Yes. The ScrapeIt Seeking Alpha API returns last price, market cap, EPS estimates and actuals, earnings dates, headline titles and follower counts as JSON from an endpoint we host, refreshed on the schedule you set. The same tables can also arrive as CSV or Excel files, a JSON feed, or a load into your database.
Yes. Symbol pages, earnings dates and estimates, headlines and transcript listings are open to any visitor without a subscription. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on Seeking Alpha without paying - and we collect it legally. Premium-only ratings and grades are not part of the dataset.
We collect what a visitor sees on each transcript page: title, quarter, call date and time, the tickers it is tagged with, the one-line EPS and revenue summary, and the call participants by role and firm, without personal names by default. Full transcript text is a subscriber feature, so we do not promise it. The transcript list per company runs back several years, which makes it a dependable calendar of past calls.
Yes, within the schedule you choose. Headlines tagged to a ticker carry a publish time to the minute, so a watchlist can be polled hourly or several times a day. Each row keeps the title, ticker tags, publish time, comment count and article id, so your system can tell new items from ones it already holds.
Yes. Every run can be delivered as an XLSX workbook with one sheet per table - quotes and key data, earnings, dividends, headlines, transcript listings - keyed on the ticker. CSV, JSON and JSONLines carry the same data, sent by e-mail, to Google Drive or Dropbox, or to an SFTP folder.
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
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.
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.
Tell us which sites, which fields and how often. A couple of lines is enough to start.
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