Financial Times Data Parser & API

Financial Times (FT) is one of the world’s leading global business newspapers, and StockAPIS extracts its market coverage — headlines, article summaries, company and sector analysis, economic-event reporting and news sentiment — through a single unified REST API. Financial Times does not offer a public developer API for its editorial content (its FT.com content sits behind a subscription paywall and licensed enterprise feeds), so StockAPIS parses and normalizes its published news into the same schema you use for Bloomberg, Reuters and every other source — no separate scraper to build or maintain.

Platform Overview

Market Position

• One of the most influential global business and financial newspapers, headquartered in London and owned by Japan’s Nikkei Inc.
• Trusted by institutional investors, policymakers and executives for market-moving analysis and breaking financial news
• Strong editorial depth across global equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and macroeconomic policy
• No public developer API — StockAPIS provides normalized access to FT’s published market coverage via unified parsing

Data Coverage

StockAPIS exposes Financial Times’ market-relevant content as structured data:

• News headlines — real-time business and financial headlines with publish timestamps
• Article summaries & body — normalized text, author bylines and category tags
• Market analysis — sector and market commentary, macroeconomic reporting
• Company coverage — earnings, deals, regulatory and analyst-driven company news
• Economic events — central-bank decisions, policy moves, IPOs and market events
• Sentiment & tickers — extracted ticker mentions and news-sentiment scoring for signals

Quick Start

import stockapis
 
client = stockapis.Client(api_key="your-api-key")
 
# Latest Financial Times market headlines
news = client.financial_times.get_news(category="markets", limit=5)
for article in news:
    print(article["publishedAt"], "·", article["title"])

const { StockAPIS } = require("stockapis");
const client = new StockAPIS({ apiKey: "your-api-key" });
 
// Company-specific FT coverage with sentiment
const articles = await client.financial_times.getCompanyNews({
  symbol: "AAPL",
  limit: 5,
});
console.log(articles.map((a) => `${a.title} (${a.sentiment})`));

Sample API Response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    {
      "title": "Global Markets Rally as Central Banks Signal Rate Caution",
      "summary": "Equities advanced across Europe and Asia after policymakers signalled a slower path on rate cuts...",
      "author": "FT Markets Desk",
      "publishedAt": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z",
      "category": "markets",
      "tickers": ["SPX", "FTSE", "AAPL"],
      "sentiment": "positive",
      "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/12345"
    }
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "source": "financial-times",
    "timestamp": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z",
    "count": 1
  }
}

Use Cases

• News monitoring — track real-time FT headlines on companies, sectors and macro events in your feed
• Sentiment signals — extract news sentiment and ticker mentions to feed trading and risk models
• Research & analysis — pull FT market commentary and economic reporting for investment research
• Content & dashboards — surface curated business news inside trading apps, terminals and portfolio tools

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Financial Times have an official API? No — FT does not provide a public developer API for its editorial content, and FT.com is subscription-gated. StockAPIS parses and normalizes its published market news into a unified schema so you can consume FT coverage like any other source.

What data can I get from Financial Times through StockAPIS? Headlines, article summaries and body text, author and category metadata, market and economic analysis, company coverage, plus extracted ticker mentions and news sentiment.

Can I get news sentiment from Financial Times? Yes — StockAPIS enriches parsed FT articles with sentiment scoring and detected ticker symbols, so you can route headlines into signal and alerting pipelines.

Related Resources

• API reference
• Financial news sources