2 tools do this job
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 credits/call, so the first question of every forum thread, which news API is worth trying, is settled by the rate shown before each call. 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.
Billed per call, for what you use. No card required.
2 of the 2 tools that answer this job are live-verified against their upstream.
Try it
1 · Set your agent up, once
set up 鹦鹉AI — https://parrot.amorist.cn/llms.txt
2 · Then ask for the job
Using 鹦鹉AI, 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.
The call takes a ticker and a from and to date. A week is a page; a year is a lot of pages.
Finnhub tags stories to a symbol and the tagging is loose. Ask the agent to drop the ones that only mention the sector.
The rows carry the headline and summary. Sentiment, themes and 'does this matter' are the agent's to judge.
Why 鹦鹉AI
Charged per call. No card, no minimum; top up the prepaid balance.
Another tool is a different word in the prompt, not a new integration.
From the field
Stock news threads are half promotion: 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.
“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.
“I have seen some reviews of Polygon.io saying their news feed is outdated by months”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 one can answer that honestly for your tickers. The cheap test is the point of per-call pricing: pull last week on five symbols today and read the timestamps yourself.
“company news sometimes gets tagged with the wrong symbol because I'm trusting Finnhub's endpoint scoping instead of double-checking it.”
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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
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.
The forum wants full text from the paywalled sources and a sentiment number; no feed here 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
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; tools that sell sentiment scores layer that on top, and this endpoint does not.
Questions
No. The rows are headline, source, summary, time and URL. Sentiment is the agent's reading, or a separate tool's product; this endpoint returns the news, not a score on it.
No. You get the headline, a summary and the link. Full text from paywalled outlets is not something any news API here hands out, and the link is there so a person can read the ones that matter.
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