{"id":273,"date":"2026-09-08T11:50:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.infoway.io\/en\/?p=273"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:50:43","slug":"how-to-stream-real-time-financial-news-with-infoways-websocket-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.infoway.io\/en\/how-to-stream-real-time-financial-news-with-infoways-websocket-api\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stream Real-Time Financial News with Infoway’s WebSocket API"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Infoway’s real-time financial news API is live.<\/strong> With the same API key you already use for market data, you can now open a WebSocket and receive a structured stream of global financial news \u2014 every item tagged with the tickers it affects, an urgency level, and a cross-source deduplication key, in 11 languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This guide is a hands-on walkthrough. By the end you’ll have a production-ready Python client that connects, subscribes, survives disconnects, deduplicates, and routes each headline to the instruments it concerns. If you just want to see a news push land in your terminal, jump to Quickstart<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything below \u2014 endpoints, protocol codes, field names, and the latency figures \u2014 reflects the live production service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who this is for<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The news feed is built for programs, not readers. It’s the right tool if you’re building:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Event-driven strategies<\/strong> that need to act within seconds of a headline.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Portfolio and watchlist alerting<\/strong> \u2014 “tell me when something happens to a stock I hold.”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Per-instrument news panels<\/strong> inside a trading terminal or broker app.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Cross-market, multi-language monitoring dashboards.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • News-to-price research pipelines<\/strong> that line up a headline against what the market did next.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    If all you need is a list of headlines to render on a page, a plain REST “latest news” endpoint is simpler and it’s the better fit. The Infoway feed is aimed at the case where a machine consumes each item and decides what to do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. How the feed is designed: events, not articles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Most news APIs hand you an article: a title, a blurb, a source name, a link, maybe a thumbnail. That’s everything you need to show<\/em> the news to a person, and nothing you need to act<\/em> on it programmatically. To go from that payload to “which of my positions does this affect, and how urgent is it?<\/strong>” you’d build and maintain a named-entity-recognition pipeline, a company-name-to-ticker mapping, a cross-source dedup layer, and a priority model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Infoway pushes the result of that work instead. Each message is a structured event:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    You get<\/th>Field<\/th>Why it matters<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
    Associated tickers<\/td>symbols<\/code><\/td>Route the item to holdings\/instruments with a set intersection \u2014 no NER to build<\/td><\/tr>
    Urgency level<\/td>urgency<\/code><\/td>Turn the stream into a priority queue; flash breaking items, batch the rest<\/td><\/tr>
    Cross-source dedup key<\/td>dk<\/code><\/td>Reuters and a wire service report the same event \u2014 one dk<\/code>, so you process it once<\/td><\/tr>
    Full body + summary<\/td>content<\/code>, sd<\/code><\/td>Run your own NLP\/LLM on the text, or show the summary directly<\/td><\/tr>
    Machine timestamp<\/td>published<\/code><\/td>Unix seconds, ready for arithmetic and alignment against price bars<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    The transport is a WebSocket, so there’s no polling interval sitting between an event happening and your code hearing about it. You subscribe once; the server pushes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2. Prerequisites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    An API key with news access.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The news feed is available on the Premium plan ($199\/month) and above<\/strong>, or an equivalent custom plan. It uses the same key and the same authentication as Infoway’s real-time market data \u2014 if you’re already streaming prices, you only need to make sure news is enabled on your plan. Get a key from the Infoway dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    One Python dependency:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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