# Benzinga

Benzinga provides real-time financial news and data APIs, offering comprehensive coverage of market-moving information for developers and financial professionals.

- **Category:** analytics
- **Auth:** API_KEY
- **Tools:** 15
- **Triggers:** 0
- **Slug:** `BENZINGA`
- **Version:** 20260217_00

## Tools

### Get Calendar Earnings Stream

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_CALENDAR_EARNINGS_STREAM`

Tool to subscribe to real-time earnings calendar events via WebSocket. Use when you need immediate updates as reports are announced.

### Get Conference Calls

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_CONFERENCE_CALLS`

Tool to retrieve upcoming and historical conference call details such as times, tickers, and webcast URLs. Use when filtering conference calls by date range or ticker symbols.

### Get Conference Calls V2.1

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_CONFERENCE_CALLS_V21`

Tool to retrieve conference call data for a selected period and/or security using v2.1 API. Conference calls are scheduled calls where company management discusses quarterly or annual financial results, business updates, and answers questions from analysts and investors.

### Get Consensus Ratings

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_CONSENSUS_RATINGS`

Get aggregated consensus analyst ratings and price targets for a stock ticker. Returns analyst sentiment distribution (strong_buy, buy, hold, sell counts or percentages), consensus rating, price target range (low, high, average), and analyst counts. Specify a ticker symbol to get results - not all tickers have consensus data available. Use this when you need to understand the overall analyst sentiment and price expectations for a stock to inform investment decisions.

### Get Earnings Calendar V2.1

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_EARNINGS_V21`

Tool to retrieve earnings calendar data (v2.1). Use when you need dates, estimates, and actuals for upcoming earnings events.

### Get Economics

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_ECONOMICS`

Retrieve economic calendar events from Benzinga with actual, consensus, and prior values. Returns economic indicators like GDP, employment data, inflation metrics, Fed announcements, and other scheduled releases with their actual values, forecasts, and prior readings. Filter by date range, country (3-letter code), event category, or importance level (0-5). Supports pagination for large result sets. Default returns all upcoming/recent events.

### Get Economics Calendar V2.1

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_ECONOMICS_V21`

Tool to retrieve economic calendar data including indicators, releases, and reports from various countries. Returns actual values, consensus estimates, and prior values for economic events such as GDP, employment data, inflation metrics, and more.

### Get News

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_NEWS`

Tool to fetch structured news data from Benzinga's news API. Returns news articles with metadata including title, body, author, tickers, channels, and tags. Use when querying for financial news articles. For optimal performance, limit the query scope using parameters such as tickers, date ranges, and channels, or use updatedSince for delta queries. Supports pagination with page offsets limited from 0-100000.

### Get News Channels

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_NEWS_CHANNELS`

Tool to retrieve all available news channels that can be used to filter news items. Use when you need to discover available channel categories for news filtering. Channels can have sub-channels (identified by parent field), but all are listed as individual items.

### Get Newsfeed Stream

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_NEWSFEED_STREAM`

Get WebSocket connection details for real-time Benzinga newsfeed streaming. Returns the WebSocket URL and authentication token needed to establish a WebSocket connection for receiving real-time news events. Use this when you need immediate updates as news articles are created, updated, or removed. Note: This action returns connection details only. You will need a WebSocket client library to establish the actual streaming connection using the provided URL and token.

### Get Analyst Ratings

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_RATINGS`

Tool to fetch analyst ratings calendar data including rating actions, price targets, and analyst details. Use when querying upcoming or historical analyst ratings.

### Get Analyst Ratings V2.1

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_RATINGS_V21`

Tool to fetch analyst ratings data including upgrades, downgrades, initiations, and price target changes from Wall Street analysts. Returns current and prior ratings, price targets, analyst information, and ratings accuracy metrics when available. Use when querying analyst ratings with advanced filtering options like analyst ID, firm ID, and specific rating actions.

### Get Removed

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_REMOVED`

Retrieve removed or cancelled calendar events from Benzinga. Returns a list of calendar items (such as earnings, ratings, dividends, splits, M&A, etc.) that have been removed or cancelled. Use this to track what events have been deleted from the calendar, optionally filtering by event type or removal timestamp for change tracking and data synchronization.

### Get Removed News

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_REMOVED_NEWS`

Retrieves IDs and timestamps of news articles that have been removed from Benzinga's database. Use this to track deleted/retracted news articles, sync local caches, or identify articles removed after a specific timestamp. Returns removed article IDs with their removal timestamps, supporting pagination up to 100 pages. Note: This endpoint returns only article identifiers and removal times - not the original article content.

### Get Removed Calendar Events V2.1

**Slug:** `BENZINGA_GET_REMOVED_V21`

Tool to retrieve removed or cancelled calendar events from Benzinga (v2.1). Use when you need to track calendar events that have been deleted or cancelled from specific event types like earnings, ratings, dividends, splits, IPOs, offerings, economics, guidance, M&A, or conference calls. Supports filtering by event type and update timestamp for change tracking and data synchronization.
