Chinese Financial Media: Now in the Same API as the Global Press

Chinese Financial Media: Now in the Same API as the Global Press

You already read Caixin in the morning and keep Cailian Press open during the session.

What you probably don't have is all of it, plus Bloomberg, Reuters, the FT, the WSJ and Nikkei, arriving through one API, in one schema, filterable by language and market.

That's what we've just shipped.

The domestic sources

East Money and Caixin are ingested desk by desk rather than as single feeds, so you can subscribe to bond coverage without the retail equity chatter. East Money's 辟谣 desk is its own source too, and a stream of what has been officially denied is useful in a market where rumours move prices.

And the rest of the world

Sitting alongside it, in the same schema: Bloomberg, Reuters, the WSJ, the FT, CNBC, Barron's and MarketWatch; Nikkei and NHK in Japan; Channel NewsAsia, the Straits Times and SCMP across the region; AP, PR Newswire and GlobeNewswire; CoinDesk and The Block for digital assets.

One integration instead of a scraping team.

Why it matters

With domestic and international sources in one index, you can track how a mainland story is covered abroad, measure how long it takes to cross over, and compare domestic sentiment against foreign, on the same company, on the same day.

Using it

Articles are fetched with a POST to /v2/articles. The language parameter defaults to en, so set it explicitly to pull Chinese coverage:

curl -X POST 'https://api.finlight.me/v2/articles' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{ "language": "zh" }'

Add a query to narrow it to one company:

curl -X POST 'https://api.finlight.me/v2/articles' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{ "language": "zh", "query": "比亚迪" }'

Nearly all Chinese sources are in the default source set, so there's no new endpoint and no migration. Just the language parameter.

Check it before you write any code

You don't have to integrate first to see what's there. The API Tester in the dashboard builds the request, sets language, and shows the live response, so you can validate the coverage on your own tickers in a couple of minutes. The Sources page lists every source with its language and whether it's in your default feed, and the WebSocket Tester does the same for the live stream.

Next: Japan

Nikkei, NHK, Jiji Press, Kabutan, Minkabu and 47NEWS are already in the index. More on that shortly.

Start with a free key

Chinese-language coverage is live on every plan, including the free tier. Create a key, run a query, see what comes back. No credit card, no sales call.

When you outgrow it, Pro Light covers smaller production workloads, and Pro Standard and Pro Scale add the volume and limits that trading and research teams need.

Missing a source you rely on? Get in touch. Customer requests are a large part of how this list grows.

Where to go next

• Advanced News Filtering to narrow by language, source, and date.
• Multilingual Financial News API.
• Compare plans.
• Full documentation.

Get your free API key →