How to get Nordic financial data via API

Search for a Nordic financial data API and the top results are reverse-engineered GitHub repositories. Not because the data doesn't exist, but because "Nordic financial data" is not one product. It is at least four kinds of data, each sold on a different model: market data, licensed by the exchanges; fundamentals, packaged by vendors; company announcements, distributed by paid wire services; and news, which is editorial content and mostly stays in Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, or Icelandic.

This guide maps all four for the Nordic markets: what each option covers, how access works, and where the gaps are. One disclosure up front: we build one of these options. Nordic Financial News is an API for the news layer, and its intake carries the announcement wires too; the guide says so when it gets to each. Market data and fundamentals are covered on their merits.

For the markets themselves, their operators, currencies, and headline indices, see the companion guide, Nordic stock exchanges, and how to follow them in English.

Do the Nordic exchanges have public APIs?

No, if what you mean is an API with public documentation, published pricing, and a key you can create yourself. That is why so much of what ranks for this search query is reverse engineering.

Nasdaq Nordic APIs

Nasdaq Nordic runs the Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Iceland markets, plus the First North growth markets. It has no public developer API. The official route is Nasdaq Data Link, where Nordic equity datasets sit alongside the rest of Nasdaq's institutional catalogue: subscriptions are sold à la carte, the Nordic products are premium with contact-sales pricing, and the flagship Nordic end-of-day dataset's history starts in April 2024. The community libraries that top the search results work by calling the endpoints behind Nasdaq's own website. They are unofficial, and they can break without notice.

Oslo Børs APIs

Oslo Børs has been part of Euronext since 2019, and its data access moved with it. The current path is Euronext Web Services: REST over HTTP, JSON responses, covering quotes, trades, and reference data. Access starts with a sales form, and there is no public price list. A retail-oriented Delayed Data API covering Oslo Børs has also appeared in Euronext's Data Shop; its product pages now require an account, and no price is published there either. If you have been looking for "the Oslo Børs API" from before the acquisition, this is where it went.

Neither operator sells news through these channels. Market data only.

Prices and fundamentals: the vendor options

For quotes and price history, the practical route is a market-data vendor. Coverage below is what each provider's own exchange list showed in July 2026.

Iceland is where general vendors thin out first. Of the general-purpose APIs above, only Twelve Data lists Nasdaq Iceland. If Icelandic coverage matters to you, check the exchange list before you commit.

First North is a granularity test. Nasdaq's growth markets are separate marketplaces with their own MIC codes and listing rules, and broad aggregators tend to flatten them into the main exchange. When we looked up Aallon Group, a First North Helsinki listing, on Marketstack, it came back as a Nasdaq Helsinki main-market equity with no ISIN attached. If your use case separates main-market from First North companies, test a few known First North tickers before you commit.

The free tiers are end-of-day for a reason. Real-time exchange data carries exchange fees and redistribution licensing, even when you buy it through a vendor. That is why free plans serve delayed or end-of-day data, and why the official exchange channels are contact-sales.

Börsdata is known for the deepest Nordic fundamentals of the group, but its API is a membership feature rather than a standalone product. API keys are available to Pro members in Nordic countries, and global data requires the Pro+ tier.

At the institutional end, Bloomberg's BLPAPI is publicly documented, but data access comes with a Bloomberg Professional relationship. LSEG's data APIs are part of a Workspace licence. Neither publishes pricing.

Press releases and company announcements

Listed Nordic companies publish regulated information, such as earnings releases, disclosures, and prospectuses, through paid distribution services. This layer has its own APIs.

MFN (Modular Finance) aggregates press releases and their history for Nordic listed companies regardless of which service distributed them. Access is arranged with Modular Finance directly; the API it documents publicly covers ownership data, not releases. Cision offers per-company release feeds in XML or JSON, keyed by an access key issued to the publishing company. The national agencies run their own: NTB in Norway has an API portal that requires a customer agreement, and Ritzau in Denmark issues press-release feed URLs through its customer service. GlobeNewswire also distributes Nordic releases.

The caveat that matters: releases arrive in whatever language the issuer wrote them. In our own intake, the split is visible daily: the largest companies publish an English version alongside the original, while most smaller companies publish once, in the local language. And an announcement is not the journalism that interprets it. The release states the numbers. What the numbers mean, how analysts reacted, what the local press dug up, all of that is a separate layer, covered next and in How to follow Nordic stock news in English.

This layer is in our own product too. Nordic Financial News ingests the press-release wires and the exchange disclosure feeds, gives each release an English headline and summary, maps it to the company that issued it, and links to the original. For monitoring announcements, that replaces a wire relationship; our API can filter to press releases by content type.

Is there a Nordic financial news API?

Yes: ours. The Nordic Financial News API is purpose-built for translated Nordic business news. The next section covers this in more detail, but first we'll take a look at the rest of the field, because this is the API layer where the options thin out fastest, and knowing the limitations of alternatives helps to explain what we built.

General news APIs

The general news APIs fall short on Nordic financial news. NewsAPI.org and GNews both support Swedish and Norwegian, but not Danish, Finnish, or Icelandic, and neither translates. Event Registry indexes articles in all five Nordic languages and searches across them, but returns each article in the language it was written in. Finnhub's company-news endpoint is documented as available for North American companies only. Alpha Vantage's news product filters by ticker and topic; its documentation names no Nordic outlet, exchange, or language option.

Financial data vendors news APIs

The financial-data vendors have news endpoints too. EODHD sells a financial news API, and Marketaux maps news to tickers, Nordic listings included; both aggregate the limited coverage that's already written in English rather than translating the local press.

Machine translation does exist in the general tier. NewsCatcher translates non-English articles to English on its NLP plans. It is not Nordic-focused: it publishes no Nordic business-press source list, has no mapping from articles to Nordic tickers or listings, and prices by demo.

Enterprise news APIs

Higher up the market, Millistream sells Nordic market-data feeds that include news and press releases, and Infront, which owns the Direkt and TDN newswires, serves their coverage through its terminals and data products. Both are enterprise products with no published pricing.

As of July 2026, we have not found another API purpose-built for Nordic financial news: translated to English, mapped to listed Nordic companies and exchanges, self-serve, with published pricing. That is the product we built.

Build it yourself

The remaining alternative is to try and build it yourself. The parts list looks short: RSS feeds, an LLM for translation, a prompt for entity extraction. That produces a demo. Between the demo and a system you can put in production sits the actual work: deciding which sources across five countries earn a place in the intake, recognizing the same release as it arrives from every wire that syndicates it, turning an earnings date mentioned in passing into a calendar entry, and catching feeds that break quietly when a site changes. Entity resolution alone is a complex project: "Volvo" in a headline can mean AB Volvo, which trades under two share classes, Volvo Cars, which is a separately listed company under Geely, or one of the truck group's subsidiaries, from Volvo Penta to Volvo Bussar. Map it wrong and every downstream filter is wrong. That work is not a feature of our product; it is the product.

Nordic Financial News: an API for the news layer

Nordic Financial News monitors the Nordic business press, newswires, exchange disclosures, central banks, and regulators, translates the reporting to English, and links each item of news to the companies it covers. The API serves that output.

As of July 2026, that means 71 sources across Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Iceland; 14 exchanges, including the growth markets; around 5,800 Nordic companies; and a growing archive of articles, with over 5,000 added in the past week. Calendar events, such as earnings dates, dividends, AGMs, and M&A milestones, are extracted from the reporting as they're announced, and available in our API. The coverage page lists many of the news sources by type.

Our API has endpoints for articles, stories, companies, calendar events, exchanges, indices, and countries. It offers full-text search, pagination is cursor-based, errors follow RFC 9457, responses support ETag caching, and there is an OpenAPI spec.

Every plan includes API access. The free plan covers recent articles from the major sources; the full source list and the archive are on paid plans. Sign up, create a key under Settings → API keys, and your first call looks like this:

curl "https://nordicfinancialnews.com/api/v1/articles?limit=5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NFN_API_KEY"

{
  "articles": [
    {
      "id": "art_abc123def",
      "title": "Volvo Reports Record Q1 Earnings",
      "published_at": "2026-04-15T09:30:00.000Z",
      "article_url": "https://di.se/articles/volvo-q1-2026",
      "content_type": "news",
      "category": { "id": "2m0aj78adld4", "name": "Earnings & Financial Results" },
      "source": { "id": "rlwitcm8kqah", "name": "Dagens Industri", "domain": "di.se" },
      "company_ids": ["uejazctgchj4"],
      "country": "SE"
    }
  ],
  "pagination": { "count": 5, "next_cursor": "..." }
}

The getting-started guide has the same request in Python, Ruby, and JavaScript, and the API reference documents every endpoint.

If you are working with AI agents, we also have an MCP server at nordicfinancialnews.com/mcp that exposes the same data as the API. It authenticates with OAuth or an API key, and setup for Claude, Cursor, and VS Code is in the MCP guide. We also have a CLI tool: brew install nordic-financial-news/tap/nfn.

Choosing by use case

For most builds these are layers, not rivals: prices from a market-data API and news from Nordic Financial News is a normal pairing.

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Frequently asked questions

Does Nasdaq Nordic have a public API?
No. Nasdaq Nordic offers institutional data products through Nasdaq Data Link, sold by subscription without public pricing. The community libraries that appear in search results are unofficial and rely on undocumented endpoints.

Is there a free API for Nordic stock prices?
Free tiers exist at Twelve Data, EODHD, and Marketstack, with request limits and end-of-day data. Iceland is the gap: of the three, only Twelve Data lists Nasdaq Iceland.

Can I get Nordic financial news in English through an API?
Not from the general news APIs: they cover only some of the Nordic languages or return articles untranslated, and the few services that do translate are not built around the Nordic business press. Nordic Financial News is purpose-built for this: it translates reporting from all five countries to English, maps it to listed companies, and serves it over a REST API, an MCP server, and a CLI.

Does Nordic Financial News cover Iceland?
Yes. Coverage includes Icelandic sources such as Morgunblaðið and Viðskiptablaðið, companies listed on Nasdaq Iceland, and the OMX Iceland 15 index.

What about historical news data?
Our paid plans include access to the full news archive. For price history, use the market-data vendors above; several offer decades of end-of-day data.