Arabic Financial Media: Argaam, Al Eqtisadiah and Asharq, in the Same API

Arabic Financial Media: Argaam, Al Eqtisadiah and Asharq, in the Same API

Tadawul, ADX, DFM and the EGX open on Sunday morning. Most of the global financial press is closed.

By the time the English desks are back, the Gulf has already traded a full session, and the reporting that carried it, the disclosures, the regulator notes, the deal chatter, was in Arabic.

Arabic coverage is now in the API, in the same schema as everything else, filterable by language and market.

The regional sources

Among the Arabic titles in the index:

These arrive in the default source set, so they need no configuration. Al Jazeera's English service is in there too, which makes it a useful bridge when you want the same story in both languages. The Sources page is the live list, with each source's language and whether it's in your default feed, and it grows as we onboard more.

Two are worth a second look. Argaam carries Tadawul company disclosures, so the filing and the reporting around it arrive in the same feed. And Mubasher runs country editions across the Gulf, Egypt and the Levant, which is the layer of the region that the international wires simply do not staff.

And the rest of the world

Sitting alongside it, in the same schema: Bloomberg, Reuters, the WSJ, the FT, CNBC, Barron's, MarketWatch, Yahoo Finance and Benzinga; Nikkei, NHK and Jiji Press in Japanese; Yonhap, Hankyung and Maeil in Korean; Caixin, East Money and Cailian Press in Chinese; AP, PR Newswire and GlobeNewswire; CoinDesk and The Block for digital assets. Among others, and more each month.

One integration instead of a scraping team.

Why it matters

The Gulf trading week runs Sunday to Thursday. If your news index only fills up when London and New York are working, you are structurally blind on the two days that open the region's week and you get a weekend of Arabic reporting delivered as a Monday summary, if at all.

There is also a coverage gap that has nothing to do with timing. Saudi and Emirati listings, Egyptian banks, regional petrochemical and real-estate names: they are covered daily in Arabic and only occasionally in English, usually when something goes wrong. One index with both languages closes that gap without a translation pipeline in the middle.

Using it

Articles are fetched with a POST to /v2/articles. The language parameter defaults to en, so set it explicitly to get Arabic coverage. Queries are written in Arabic script and matched against the original text, not a transliteration:

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

To narrow to a single market, filter on the exchange inside the query. XSAU is the MIC code for the Saudi Exchange (Tadawul); XADS, XDFM and XCAI cover Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Cairo:

curl -X POST 'https://api.finlight.me/v2/articles' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -d '{ "language": "ar", "query": "exchange:XSAU", "includeEntities": true }'

includeEntities returns the resolved companies behind each article and requires a paid tier. Arabic sources arrive 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.

Also live: Korean

Yonhap, Yonhap Infomax, Maeil Business, Hankyung, Seoul Economic Daily, ChosunBiz and Newspim shipped in the same push. See Korean Financial Media for the language=ko equivalent.

Japanese and Chinese coverage went live earlier: Japanese Financial Media and Chinese Financial Media.

Start with a free key

Arabic-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

• Korean Financial Media, the same push for Seoul.
• Japanese Financial Media and Chinese Financial Media.
• Tickers & Exchanges Done Right for filtering by exchange.
• Multilingual Financial News API.
• Full documentation.

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