Arabic Financial News API
Arabic-language financial news through one API: Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Arabiya, Sky News Arabia and its business edition, Al-Eqtisadiah, Argaam and Mubasher, delivered as structured JSON with company entities resolved to their exchange ticker and ISIN.
Product demo
An Arabic article, resolved into canonical company data
This is a live response from the API. The article is in Arabic; the company data that comes back with it is canonical and in English, with the exchange ticker and ISIN attached, so systems downstream do not have to read Arabic or map company names themselves.
// search_articles with:
// language: "ar", includeEntities: true
// sources: the seven named below
{
"source": "www.alarabiya.net",
"title": "بقيادة أرامكو .. أرباح قطاع الطاقة بالسوق السعودية تقفز 50% بالربع الثاني",
"summary": "حققت الشركات المدرجة في قطاع الطاقة بالسوق السعودية ارتفاعاً بصافي الأرباح خلال الربع الثاني من 2026 بنسبة 49.67% على أساس سنوي ...",
"publishDate": "2026-08-13T15:15:56.000Z",
"language": "ar",
"categories": ["economy", "business", "markets"],
"countries": ["SA"],
"sentiment": "neutral",
"confidence": 0.9999,
"companies": [
{
"name": "Saudi Arabian Oil Company",
"ticker": "2222",
"exchange": "XSAU",
"isin": "SA14TG012N13",
"sector": "Energy",
"industry": "Oil & Gas Integrated",
"confidence": 0.92,
"primaryListing": { "ticker": "2222", "exchangeCode": "XSAU", "exchangeCountry": "SA" }
}
// + The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (4030)
// + ADES Holding Company (2382)
// + Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company (2380)
// + Aldrees Petroleum and Transport Services Company (4200)
]
}One sector earnings story, five listed issuers identified from Arabic text and returned with ticker, exchange, ISIN, sector and industry. Not every article carries an entity block: market index reports and stories without an identifiable listed company come back with an empty companies array, which is the honest outcome rather than a guess.
Source coverage
Seven Arabic-language sources, live today
finlight carries seven Arabic-language publications across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Egypt. Four are general and regional desks that cover energy, policy and markets; three are dedicated business and market desks. Every one of them arrives on the same schema as the English feeds, so a desk that already consumes finlight adds Arabic coverage without a second integration.
| Source | Country | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Argaam أرقامwww.argaam.com | Saudi Arabia | Saudi listed companies, issuer disclosures, quarterly results, single-stock analysis |
| Mubasher مباشرwww.mubasher.info | Egypt | Issuer disclosures and market reports across Saudi, Egyptian, Kuwaiti and Qatari listings |
| Al-Eqtisadiah الاقتصاديةwww.aleqt.com | Saudi Arabia | Saudi business daily: energy, commodities, corporate and policy coverage |
| Sky News Arabia Business اقتصاد سكاي نيوز عربيةwww.snabusiness.com | UAE | Dedicated business desk: energy and oil, regional and global markets, currencies, commodities |
| Al Arabiya العربيةwww.alarabiya.net | Saudi Arabia | Pan-Arab news with a markets desk covering Gulf earnings and global markets |
| Al Jazeera Arabic الجزيرة نتwww.aljazeera.net | Qatar | Pan-Arab news with strong energy and geopolitics coverage from the region |
| Sky News Arabia سكاي نيوز عربيةwww.skynewsarabia.com | UAE | Pan-Arab breaking news, regional politics and security |
What you receive from these sources is the headline, the summary, the timestamp, the source and the link, plus finlight structured data on top: language and country tags, categories, and company entities where a listed issuer is identified. For the full article, the link points to the publisher.
The reason to read the region in Arabic rather than in translation is that the two do not carry the same set of stories. Issuer disclosures from Riyadh, Cairo and Kuwait City, regulator appointments, and sector earnings roundups appear in the Arabic press first and often only there, while the international wires pick up the subset with global relevance. A desk covering Gulf energy or a fund holding regional equities is reading the second set today.
Freshness
Same day, across the set
Five of the seven sources, pulled in a single request, timestamps exactly as the API returned them:
| Source | Headline | publishDate |
|---|---|---|
| www.aleqt.com | خطة يابانية أمريكية لكسر هيمنة الصين على المعادن النادرة | 2026-08-16T07:43:00Z |
| www.aljazeera.net | اضطرابات إدارية تضغط على "أوبن إيه آي" قبل الاكتتاب العام | 2026-08-16T07:46:00Z |
| www.argaam.com | أوبن سيجنال لأرقام: قطاع الاتصالات في السعودية شهد تحولًا على مستوى الشبكات | 2026-08-16T09:59:00Z |
| www.alarabiya.net | أسهم أوروبا تتحدى التشاؤم وبنوكها تتفوق على "العظماء السبعة" | 2026-08-16T10:37:43Z |
| www.mubasher.info | 23.6 مليار ريال أرباح الشركات المدرجة ببورصة قطر خلال النصف الأول | 2026-08-16T11:11:01Z |
Rare earths, an IPO governance story, telecoms competition, European bank equities and half-year issuer earnings, inside four hours, from five separate desks.
Get started
Pull the Arabic feed
Both snippets return the same result set as the payload above. Replace the key and run.
import { FinlightApi } from 'finlight-client'
const api = new FinlightApi({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })
const res = await api.articles.fetchArticles({
language: 'ar',
sources: [
'www.argaam.com',
'www.mubasher.info',
'www.aleqt.com',
'www.snabusiness.com',
'www.alarabiya.net',
'www.aljazeera.net',
'www.skynewsarabia.com',
],
includeEntities: true,
})
for (const a of res.articles) {
console.log(a.publishDate, a.source, a.title)
console.log(a.companies?.map((c) => `${c.ticker} (${c.exchange})`).join(', '))
}To follow one issuer instead of the whole feed, filter on the ticker directly: query "ticker:2222" with language "ar" returns the Arabic coverage of that company. The same filter works on the WebSocket stream and on webhooks, so the query you test here is the query you deploy.
Install with npm install finlight-client or pip install finlight-client.
Enterprise
When the catalog is not enough
The seven sources above are the named Arabic catalog available to customers today. If your monitoring needs an outlet that is not part of it, that is the enterprise motion: you name the source, we onboard it as part of your contract.
Honest comparison
If you were going to solve this without an API
The usual arrangement is that someone on the desk reads Al-Eqtisadiah, Argaam and Mubasher every morning, or a script pipes machine-translated headlines into a spreadsheet. For a handful of names that can work. It stops working when the question becomes systematic, because right-to-left text, transliterated company names and inconsistent naming between publishers mean the translation step and the identification step are two separate problems, and the second one is the expensive one. A headline calling a company by a two-word colloquial name is unambiguous to a Gulf analyst and opaque to a keyword matcher. finlight monitors the seven named publications continuously and returns every item as structured JSON: Arabic headline, summary, timestamp, source, categories, and companies resolved to canonical English names with their exchange ticker and ISIN. Systems filter by ticker, category or keyword without anyone reading Arabic. What it does not replace is a reading workflow. For the article itself, the link points to the publisher.
Three things this page does not offer, stated plainly:
- No Gulf market data. No prices, quotes, order books or index levels. finlight covers the news around those markets, not the market data itself.
- No entity block on every article. Companies are resolved where a listed issuer is identified. Index-level market reports and stories without an identifiable listed company return an empty companies array.
- No Arabic web search. This is a curated set of seven named publications, not a search index over the Arabic web, and it does not mirror any regional aggregator.
For regional risk and multi-perspective reading, this coverage feeds the Geopolitical News API page, and the ticker filter above is the Trading Systems page pattern applied to the Gulf. finlight also covers Chinese-language domestic media and Korean-language financial press on the same schema, and macro releases from the region flow through the Economic News API.
Other ways to connect
REST, WebSocket, webhooks, or MCP
The REST API is one integration. finlight also offers real-time streaming, event-driven webhooks, and an MCP server for AI agents.
Frequently Asked Questions
Arabic Financial News API Questions
Common questions about using finlight for Arabic-language financial news coverage.
Arabic sources are part of the standard catalog and are included on every plan that includes the API itself. Pricing is on the pricing page, and the free tier covers evaluation.
Still Have Questions?
Our developer-first support team is here to help you integrate and scale.
Add Arabic coverage to what you already pull
Same schema, same endpoints, same query language. If you already run finlight in English, the Arabic sources are a parameter change.
Custom sources, annual invoicing, priority onboarding: contact us.