Google Finance Scraper

Collect fast, structured stock quotes and public company data from Google Finance. The Actor uses Google Finance's server-rendered quote pages, so representative runs finish in seconds without launching a browser.

What it extracts

Every valid quote includes a stable SYMBOL:EXCHANGE ID, company name, canonical URL, numeric price, displayed price, currency, absolute and percentage change, direction, market status, quote time, localization, and scrape time.

When Google displays the values, the Actor also extracts:

• After-hours price and percentage change
• Open, high, low, volume, and average volume
• Market capitalization, P/E ratio, EPS, and beta
• Dividend yield, quarterly dividend, and ex-dividend date
• 52-week high and low
• Shares outstanding and employee count
• Company description, CEO, headquarters, founding date, and sector
• Related stocks with typed prices and percentage changes

Numeric values are returned as numbers, while matching ...Text fields preserve Google's displayed values. Optional fields are omitted instead of stored as null, blank, or fabricated values.

Input modes

Single quote

{
  "mode": "single",
  "query": "AAPL:NASDAQ",
  "maxItems": 1
}

Multiple quotes

{
  "mode": "batch",
  "queries": ["AAPL:NASDAQ", "NYSE:IBM", "NSE:RELIANCE"],
  "maxItems": 3,
  "maxConcurrency": 3
}

Supported query forms are:

• AAPL — uses defaultExchange
• AAPL:NASDAQ — Google's canonical ticker-first form
• NASDAQ:AAPL — exchange-first convenience form
• A public google.com/finance/quote/... URL

Google Finance does not reliably resolve a ticker without an exchange. Bare tickers remain supported for backward compatibility and use defaultExchange (NASDAQ by default); specify an exchange whenever the ticker is ambiguous.

Input reference

Field	Description	Default
mode	single or batch	single
query	Primary quote	AAPL:NASDAQ
queries	Additional quotes in batch mode	[]
defaultExchange	Exchange applied to bare tickers	NASDAQ
maxItems	Maximum unique records, 1–50	mode-dependent
gl	Two-letter Google country code	us
hl	Google interface language	en
maxConcurrency	Concurrent HTTP requests, 1–10	5
maxRequestRetries	Temporary-failure retries, 0–3	1
requestTimeoutSecs	Per-request timeout, 10–120 seconds	30
proxyConfiguration	Standard Apify, Residential, or custom proxy settings	direct

English (hl: "en") is recommended because public market-statistic labels are localized on the source page.

Proxy guidance

Direct HTTP is the fastest default and currently works for public Google Finance quote pages. Standard Apify Proxy, Residential proxies, and custom proxy URLs are supported when a different network route is needed.

GOOGLE_SERP is intentionally rejected: it is designed for Google Search result pages and does not transport google.com/finance/quote/... pages. The Actor does not solve or bypass CAPTCHAs. Explicit challenges fail closed and are never stored as quote records.

Output and API use

Results are stored in the default dataset and are available as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or through the Apify API. The OUTPUT key-value-store record contains the run status, query count, record count, empty queries, failures, transport, and application duration.

Example record (prices change over time):

{
  "id": "AAPL:NASDAQ",
  "name": "Apple Inc",
  "symbol": "AAPL",
  "exchange": "NASDAQ",
  "price": 319.7,
  "priceText": "$319.70",
  "currency": "USD",
  "change": 5.12,
  "changePercent": 1.63,
  "marketCap": 4670000000000,
  "marketCapText": "4.67T",
  "url": "https://www.google.com/finance/quote/AAPL:NASDAQ?hl=en&gl=us",
  "source": "Google Finance"
}

Reliability and performance

• Server-rendered HTML extraction; no browser startup
• Bounded parallel batch requests
• Status-code and content-type validation before parsing
• Explicit CAPTCHA/block detection with fail-closed behavior
• Bounded retries for temporary failures only
• Stable deduplication by symbol and exchange
• No raw response storage and no secrets in logs or datasets
• Clean empty dataset for a valid but unknown quote

Use conservative concurrency and comply with the target website's terms and applicable laws.