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Build a News Sentiment Signal for Your Watchlist
Turn finlight's article sentiment into a single confidence-weighted score per ticker, using Python and pandas, for any watchlist.
Stream Real-Time Stock News in Python with finlight
Build a live stock news stream in Python with finlight's WebSocket: get articles with sentiment the moment they're published, filtered by ticker.
Your AI Assistant Doesn't Know Today's Market News. Here's the Fix.
LLMs have a knowledge cutoff and hallucinate on markets. Give Claude or ChatGPT live, sourced financial news over MCP — filtered by ticker, sentiment, and date.
REST vs WebSocket vs Webhooks vs MCP: Which to Use
finlight delivers the same enriched news four ways. Compare REST, WebSocket, webhooks, and MCP, and learn which delivery method fits your job.
We Ran Our Search Engine Backwards
The same query returned different results over REST and WebSocket. How we replaced an eval-based matcher with the OpenSearch percolator and ran our search engine backwards.