Benzinga

Benzinga WebSocket Streaming API

Real-time WebSocket streams over wss://api.benzinga.com for news, earnings, analyst ratings, consensus ratings, analyst insights, bulls/bears cases, and sentence-by-sentence earnings-call transcripts, with session replay actions and token auth.

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Documentation

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Documentation

https://docs.benzinga.com/ws-reference/overview

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APIReference

https://docs.benzinga.com/ws-reference/data-websocket/get-news-stream

Specifications

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/benzinga/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/benzinga-calendar-ratings-stream-asyncapi.yml

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/benzinga/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/benzinga-consensus-ratings-stream-asyncapi.yml

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/benzinga/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/benzinga-analyst-insights-stream-asyncapi.yml

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/benzinga/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/benzinga-bulls-bears-say-stream-asyncapi.yml

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AsyncAPI Specification

asyncapi: '3.0.0'
info:
  title: Benzinga News Stream API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: |
    Real-time streaming of Benzinga news articles and updates.

    **Authentication**
    - Clients must provide their API token as a query parameter:
      ```
      wss://api.benzinga.com/api/v1/news/stream?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN
      ```
    - Upon connect, you'll receive status messages for connection and authentication.

    **Filtering**
    - Filter by tickers: Use `tickers` query parameter (comma-separated)
    - Filter by channels: Use `channels` query parameter (comma-separated)

    **Actions**
    - `ping`: Keeps the WebSocket connection alive
    - `replay`: Replays up to the last 100 messages (cache-dependent)

servers:
  production:
    host: api.benzinga.com/api/v1/news
    protocol: wss
    description: Real-time news stream endpoint
    security:
      - $ref: '#/components/securitySchemes/tokenAuth'

channels:
  news:
    address: stream
    messages:
      publish:
        $ref: '#/components/messages/ActionRequest'
      subscribe:
        $ref: '#/components/messages/NewsMessage'
    description: Send action commands; receive real-time news updates

operations:
  news.publish:
    action: receive
    channel:
      $ref: '#/channels/news'
    summary: Send commands to the server
    messages:
      - $ref: '#/channels/news/messages/publish'
  news.subscribe:
    action: send
    channel:
      $ref: '#/channels/news'
    summary: Receive real-time news updates
    messages:
      - $ref: '#/channels/news/messages/subscribe'

components:
  securitySchemes:
    tokenAuth:
      type: httpApiKey
      name: token
      in: query
      description: Benzinga WebSocket API token (bz.production***)

  messages:
    ActionRequest:
      summary: Send action commands (ping, replay)
      contentType: text/plain
      payload:
        type: string
        enum: [ping, replay]
        description: Action to perform (ping for heartbeat, replay for message history)

    NewsMessage:
      name: NewsMessage
      title: News Update
      summary: A news article or update message
      contentType: application/json
      payload:
        type: object
        properties:
          id:
            type: string
            description: Unique message identifier
          api_version:
            type: string
            description: API version
            example: "websocket/v1"
          kind:
            type: string
            description: Message type
            example: "news"
          data:
            type: object
            properties:
              action:
                type: string
                description: Action type
                enum: [created, updated, deleted]
              id:
                type: integer
                description: News article ID
              timestamp:
                type: string
                format: date-time
                description: Message timestamp
              content:
                type: object
                properties:
                  id:
                    type: integer
                    description: Article ID
                  author:
                    type: string
                    description: Article author
                  created:
                    type: string
                    description: Article creation timestamp
                  updated:
                    type: string
                    description: Article update timestamp
                  title:
                    type: string
                    description: Article headline
                  teaser:
                    type: string
                    description: Article teaser text
                  body:
                    type: string
                    description: Full article body
                  url:
                    type: string
                    description: Article URL
                  image:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        size:
                          type: string
                        url:
                          type: string
                  channels:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        name:
                          type: string
                  stocks:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        name:
                          type: string
                        cusip:
                          type: string
                        isin:
                          type: string
                        exchange:
                          type: string
                  tags:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        name:
                          type: string