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Financial news,
parsed for quantitative models.

We extract market commentary, stock ratings, ticker mentions, and author sentiment from TheStreet. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Articles extracted
4.2K /day
Ticker mentions
18.5K /day
Author profiles
312 /run
Active pipelines
42
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from thestreet.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for News Articles objects from thestreet.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

article_idurlheadlinesubheadlineauthor_namepublished_atupdated_atbody_texttickers_mentionedcategorytags
news_articles
● 200 OK
"article_id": "ts-8472910",
"url": "https://www.thestreet.com/investing/apple-stock-earnings-preview",
"headline": "Apple Faces Key Test in China Ahead of Q3 Earnings",
"author_name": "Martin Baccardax",
"published_at": "2026-10-24T14:30:00Z",
"tickers_mentioned": "['AAPL', 'MSFT']",
"category": "Investing",
"tags": "['Earnings', 'Technology', 'China']"
# article_idurlheadlinesubheadlineauthor_namepublished_at
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Complete list of extractable fields for Ticker Mentions objects from thestreet.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

mention_idtickerexchangecompany_namemention_contextarticle_urlpublished_atauthor_namesentiment_proxy
ticker_mentions
● 200 OK
"mention_id": "mnt-99281",
"ticker": "AAPL",
"exchange": "NASDAQ",
"company_name": "Apple Inc.",
"mention_context": "Apple shares dipped 1.2% following the supply chain report.",
"article_url": "https://www.thestreet.com/investing/apple-stock-earnings-preview",
"published_at": "2026-10-24T14:30:00Z",
"sentiment_proxy": "negative"
# mention_idtickerexchangecompany_namemention_contextarticle_url
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Complete list of extractable fields for Author Profiles objects from thestreet.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

author_idnamebiotwitter_handlearticle_countprimary_sectorlatest_article_urlprofile_image_url
author_profiles
● 200 OK
"author_id": "auth-402",
"name": "Martin Baccardax",
"bio": "Lead Market Analyst covering macroeconomic trends and mega-cap tech.",
"twitter_handle": "@MartinBaccardax",
"article_count": 3402,
"primary_sector": "Technology",
"latest_article_url": "https://www.thestreet.com/investing/apple-stock-earnings-preview"
# author_idnamebiotwitter_handlearticle_countprimary_sector
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Complete list of extractable fields for Market Commentary objects from thestreet.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

commentary_idcategoryheadlinesummarykey_takeawaysauthor_namepublished_atrelated_tickersmarket_cap_focus
market_commentary
● 200 OK
"commentary_id": "com-1029",
"category": "Markets",
"headline": "Pre-Market Movers: Tech Leads the Charge",
"summary": "Nasdaq futures point to a higher open following strong semiconductor guidance.",
"key_takeaways": "['Semiconductors rally', 'Yields remain flat', 'Retail earnings mixed']",
"author_name": "Stephen Guilfoyle",
"published_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
"related_tickers": "['NVDA', 'AMD']"
# commentary_idcategoryheadlinesummarykey_takeawaysauthor_name
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Complete list of extractable fields for Stock Ratings (Free) objects from thestreet.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

rating_idtickerrating_graderating_dateprevious_gradesectorprice_at_ratinganalyst_namearticle_url
stock_ratings (free)
● 200 OK
"rating_id": "rtg-5821",
"ticker": "TSLA",
"rating_grade": "Hold",
"rating_date": "2026-10-20T09:15:00Z",
"previous_grade": "Buy",
"sector": "Consumer Discretionary",
"price_at_rating": 214.5,
"article_url": "https://www.thestreet.com/investing/tesla-downgrade"
# rating_idtickerrating_graderating_dateprevious_gradesector
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Capabilities

Financial journalism, structured for quantitative models

Our TheStreet scraper transforms unstructured HTML articles into machine-readable JSON, extracting precise timestamps, ticker symbols, and author metadata for sentiment analysis.

Full Article Extraction

Extract headlines, subheadlines, body copy, and bulleted takeaways from news articles and market commentary.

Ticker Mapping

Isolate every stock ticker mentioned in the text, linking the narrative directly to the tradable asset.

Timestamp Precision

Capture exact publication and update timestamps down to the second for accurate historical backtesting.

Author Tracking

Monitor specific journalists and analysts to build sentiment profiles based on their historical coverage.

Category Filtering

Target specific sections like Crypto, Investing, Personal Finance, or Technology to limit noise in your dataset.

Real-Time Streaming

Monitor the latest feed and push new articles via webhook within seconds of publication.

Historical Backfill

Scrape years of archived articles to build a comprehensive corpus for NLP model training.

Anti-Bot Circumvention

Bypass rate limits and caching layers using residential proxies and intelligent request throttling.

Update Detection

Track changes to articles over time, capturing post-publication edits and headline modifications.

// engagement pipeline

From URL to data warehouse

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target categories, author lists, or historical date ranges. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, and session management for thestreet.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and timestamp verification before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our pipeline handles financial media scraping

Media sites rely on aggressive caching and dynamic content hydration. Here is how we extract clean data at scale.

pipeline-monitor · thestreet.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
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Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Dynamic content
Hydrating client-side rendered elements

Many financial media sites use JavaScript to load related tickers, live price widgets, and author metadata after the initial page load. We use Playwright to execute the JavaScript and capture the fully rendered DOM.

Rate limiting
Managing aggressive WAF rules

High-frequency scraping triggers Web Application Firewalls. We distribute requests across a large pool of US residential proxies, randomising user agents and request intervals to blend in with legitimate reader traffic.

HTML parsing
Cleaning messy editorial markup

Editorial content often contains inconsistent HTML, inline ads, and embedded widgets. Our extraction logic strips out the noise, returning clean, continuous text blocks suitable for NLP processing.

Timestamp standardisation
Normalising publication dates

Timezones and date formats vary across sections. We parse and normalise all timestamps to UTC ISO 8601 format, ensuring your time-series data remains perfectly aligned.

Ticker extraction
Regex and DOM proximity mapping

We do not just rely on explicit ticker tags. Our parsers use regular expressions and DOM proximity checks to identify company mentions in the text and map them to their corresponding exchange tickers.

Applications

Who uses TheStreet data

Teams across industries use thestreet.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Algorithmic Trading

Quantitative funds ingest news text and timestamps to generate real-time sentiment scores for high-frequency trading models.

02
NLP Model Training

AI teams use historical financial journalism to fine-tune large language models for finance-specific vocabulary and context.

03
Retail Sentiment Tracking

Analysts monitor coverage volume and tone around specific meme stocks or retail favourites to gauge market participation.

04
Media Monitoring

PR firms and investor relations teams track brand mentions, executive quotes, and overall narrative tone in financial media.

05
Event-Driven Analysis

Traders map news publication timestamps against tick-level price data to measure market reaction times to earnings or macroeconomic news.

06
Competitor Intelligence

Corporate strategy teams monitor how competitors are covered by major financial outlets to inform their own communication strategies.

Why DataFlirt

"Financial news is only actionable if you can map the narrative to a ticker symbol and a microsecond timestamp before the market reacts."

Extracting data from TheStreet requires handling aggressive caching layers, dynamic content hydration, and strict rate limits. DataFlirt manages the infrastructure so your quantitative analysts can focus on signal generation and backtesting, rather than maintaining fragile scraping scripts.

Technical Spec

TheStreet scraper technical specifications

Everything supported by our thestreet.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions to capture dynamically loaded widgets and tickers
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
US-based residential IPs to bypass rate limits and WAF blocks
Supported
Article body extraction
Clean text extraction stripping inline ads and embedded videos
Supported
Ticker mapping
Extraction of explicit ticker tags and regex-based text matching
Supported
Timestamp normalisation
All publication and update times converted to UTC ISO 8601
Supported
Historical archives
Pagination through category archives for complete backfills
Supported
Real-time webhook delivery
HTTP POST delivery within seconds of article publication
Supported
Action Alerts PLUS portfolio
Requires premium subscription credentials to access trade alerts
Partial
TheStreet Smarts premium
Gated analysis and quantitative models behind the paywall
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the media pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles high-throughput URL discovery and scheduling, while Playwright executes JavaScript for accurate DOM extraction on complex article pages.

Proxy Infrastructure

We route requests through rotating US residential proxies to avoid IP bans and ensure consistent access to the latest financial news.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on Kubernetes with Airflow managing dependencies and schedules, ensuring SLA compliance for real-time news delivery.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited JSON for structured document storage
CSV
Flat file format for analyst review
XLS
Excel compatible format for manual inspection
Parquet
Columnar format optimised for BigQuery and Snowflake
AWS S3
Direct delivery to your cloud storage bucket
Webhook
Real-time HTTP POST per article for trading systems
API
REST endpoint to query historical scraped data
BigQuery
Direct streaming inserts into your GCP warehouse
Snowflake
Automated staging and loading into Snowflake tables
PostgreSQL
Direct database inserts with conflict handling
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
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Common questions.

About thestreet.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping TheStreet legal?

Scraping publicly available news articles and market commentary is generally permissible. DataFlirt extracts only public, non-authenticated content. We do not bypass paywalls or extract premium subscription data like Action Alerts PLUS.

How fast can you deliver new articles?

For real-time pipelines monitoring specific categories or RSS feeds, we can deliver parsed JSON via webhook within 30 to 60 seconds of publication on the site.

Can you extract historical data?

Yes. We can traverse category archives and author pages to backfill years of historical articles, providing a comprehensive dataset for backtesting models.

How accurate is the ticker extraction?

We capture all explicitly tagged tickers in the article metadata and use regex proximity rules to identify unlinked company mentions in the text, ensuring high recall for sentiment mapping.

Do you scrape the premium content?

No. We do not support scraping authenticated, paywalled content such as TheStreet Smarts or the Action Alerts PLUS portfolio.

What formats are best for NLP training?

We recommend JSON or Parquet. These formats preserve the nested structure of the data, keeping metadata like timestamps and authors cleanly separated from the raw body text.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=thestreet.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a historical backfill for model training or a real-time feed for algorithmic trading, we build and operate the infrastructure. Contact us to define your schema.

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