# Seeking Alpha Scraper — Valuation, Dividends, Ratings (`bovi/seeking-alpha-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Seeking Alpha for a dense per-ticker valuation snapshot — price, market cap, P/E, P/S, P/B, EPS, dividends, margins, 52-week range, Wall-St rating, analyst targets, and SA Quant ranks. Plus dividend history and company profiles. No API key. Pay per result.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bovi/seeking-alpha-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Vitalii Bondarev](https://apify.com/bovi) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Developer tools, MCP servers
- **Stats:** 8 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $18.43 / 1,000 ticker snapshots

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

### Seeking Alpha Scraper — Dividends, Ratings & Company Profiles

Extract stock analysis data from Seeking Alpha — dividend history, company overviews, analyst ratings, and company profiles. No API key required. Pay per result.

### Use cases

- **Dividend research:** Build a dividend income tracker by pulling 2 years of payment history for your watchlist (amount, ex-date, pay-date, frequency).
- **Stock screener data:** Enrich a portfolio spreadsheet with live P/E ratio, market cap, 52-week range, and analyst consensus ratings.
- **Financial monitoring:** Automate alerts when sector, employees, or description data changes for target companies.
- **Quant / AI pipelines:** Feed structured stock metadata into LLM analysis, ML models, or data warehouses without paying $25–599/mo for official data APIs.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `tickers` | string\[] | Stock ticker symbols, e.g. `AAPL`, `MSFT`, `TSLA`, `NVDA` |
| `dataTypes` | string\[] | What to fetch: `overview`, `dividends`, `profile` (default: `overview`) |
| `maxItems` | integer | Max total records. 0 = no limit (default: 100) |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Apify Proxy settings. RESIDENTIAL recommended |

### Output

#### Overview record

```json
{
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "data_type": "overview",
  "name": "Apple Inc.",
  "price": 192.35,
  "currency": "USD",
  "market_cap": 4428825400000,
  "shares_outstanding": 14687356000,
  "pe_ratio": 36.55,
  "pe_ratio_fwd": 34.47,
  "ps_ratio": 9.88,
  "pb_ratio": 41.53,
  "ev_ebitda": 27.30,
  "eps_ttm": 8.25,
  "dividend_yield_ttm": 0.35,
  "dividend_yield_fwd": 0.36,
  "payout_ratio": 12.58,
  "dividend_growth_5y": 4.69,
  "roe": 141.47,
  "gross_margin": 47.86,
  "net_margin": 27.15,
  "revenue_growth_yoy": 12.76,
  "week52_high": 317.4,
  "week52_low": 195.07,
  "return_1y_pct": 47.87,
  "wall_st_rating": 4.02,
  "analyst_price_target": 310.51,
  "analysts_buy": 23,
  "analysts_hold": 15,
  "analysts_sell": 1,
  "quant_overall_rank": 695,
  "quant_sector_rank": 108,
  "sa_authors_count": 14,
  "sector": "Information Technology",
  "industry": "Technology Hardware, Storage and Peripherals",
  "parse_confidence": "HIGH",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-09T10:00:00Z"
}
```

`wall_st_rating` is the Wall-Street analyst consensus (1 = strong sell … 5 = strong buy).
`quant_*_rank` are Seeking Alpha's Quant ranks (lower = stronger). `sa_authors_*` (not shown in
full above) is the SA contributor rating distribution: strong\_buy / buy / hold / sell / strong\_sell counts.

#### Dividend record

```json
{
  "ticker": "AAPL",
  "data_type": "dividends",
  "amount": 0.25,
  "currency": "USD",
  "ex_dividend_date": "2026-02-07",
  "payment_date": "2026-02-13",
  "frequency": "quarterly",
  "parse_confidence": "HIGH",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-09T10:00:00Z"
}
```

### Notes

- Uses Seeking Alpha's internal v3 API (headless, no browser required)
- Access resilient: rotates to a fresh RESIDENTIAL IP per ticker on any block (up to 6 tries) — reliable on large batches
- Polite ~1s pacing between requests per ticker

### 💰 Pricing & how we compare

**Pay-per-result (PPE): $19 / 1K snapshots ($0.019 each).** You are billed per `ticker-snapshot` actually returned — plus the tiny
`apify-actor-start` fee Apify waives for short runs. No subscription, no API key, no proxy fee on top.

**Our edge:** ONE dense snapshot per ticker (50+ fields) — price, market cap, PE (GAAP/non-GAAP/fwd), P/S, P/B, EV/EBITDA, EPS, dividend yields + payout + 5y growth, ROE, gross/net margin, revenue growth, 52-week range, 1y/YTD return, **Wall-St analyst rating (1–5) + price target + buy/hold/sell**, **SA Quant ranks**, **SA Authors rating distribution**, sector/industry — not one row per article. No rival returns this consolidated valuation snapshot.

**Pricing examples** (pay only for what you get, minus Apify's 20%):

| Volume | Cost |
|---|---|
| 100 snapshots | $1.90 |
| 1,000 snapshots | $19.00 |
| 10,000 snapshots | $190.00 |

#### How rivals price the same job (live Apify Store, checked 2026-06-09)

| Actor | Their price | What they lack vs us |
|---|---|---|
| `parseforge/seekingalpha-scraper` | $0.021 / result | per-article rows, not a consolidated ticker snapshot |
| `fortuitous_pirate/seekingalpha-stock-analysis-scraper` | $0.02 + $0.15 start | 1★, per-article |
| `doesaiknow/seeking-alpha-api-news-dividend-data` | $0.005 / item | cheaper but news/dividend feed, not a valuation snapshot |

*Prices above are competitors' live Store prices at the time of writing; ours is set to sit just
below the strongest comparable while returning richer, quality-scored data.*

### 🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is agent-ready (category **MCP\_SERVERS**). Point any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor,
n8n AI, LangGraph) at it:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=bovi/seeking-alpha-scraper",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}
```

### More scrapers from our toolkit

Building a data pipeline? These actors pair well with this one — each runs on your own Apify account with the same pay-per-result pricing, no subscription:

- [Companies France](https://apify.com/bovi/companies-france)
- [Companies House UK Scraper](https://apify.com/bovi/companies-house-uk)
- [Crunchbase Scraper](https://apify.com/bovi/crunchbase-scraper)
- [Transfermarkt Scraper](https://apify.com/bovi/transfermarkt-scraper)
- [Unusual Options Activity](https://apify.com/bovi/unusual-options-activity)
- [Yahoo Finance Scraper](https://apify.com/bovi/yahoo-finance-scraper)

Chain any of them together from the **Integrations** tab (the *Run succeeded* trigger) to build a multi-step workflow — one actor's output feeds the next.

# Actor input Schema

## `tickers` (type: `array`):

Stock ticker symbols to scrape, e.g. AAPL, MSFT, TSLA, NVDA. Up to 100 per run.

## `dataTypes` (type: `array`):

What data to fetch for each ticker. overview: price, market cap, P/E, dividend yield, 52-week range. dividends: dividend payment history. profile: company description, sector, employees, founded.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum total records to return across all tickers and data types. 0 = no limit.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy settings. RESIDENTIAL recommended for reliability.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "tickers": [
    "AAPL",
    "MSFT"
  ],
  "dataTypes": [
    "overview"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing Seeking Alpha Scraper records (ticker, name, price, market\_cap, pe\_ratio, dividend\_yield\_ttm, wall\_st\_rating, analyst\_price\_target, quant\_overall\_rank, sector, scraped\_at, parse\_confidence).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "tickers": [
        "AAPL",
        "MSFT"
    ],
    "dataTypes": [
        "overview"
    ],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bovi/seeking-alpha-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "tickers": [
        "AAPL",
        "MSFT",
    ],
    "dataTypes": ["overview"],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bovi/seeking-alpha-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "tickers": [
    "AAPL",
    "MSFT"
  ],
  "dataTypes": [
    "overview"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call bovi/seeking-alpha-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bovi/seeking-alpha-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/JXh3TFVeWkSn9LUrw/builds/dkwGlS3vJLCszfqgf/openapi.json