Forex Factory Scraper

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Unlock the Power of Real-Time Forex Insights with Our Forex Factory Scraper API ! Harness the invaluable data from https://www.forexfactory.com to supercharge your trading strategies and analysis. Have questions or need assistance? Chat with us live on Discord: https://discord.gg/pu2saW8uY8

Forex Factory Scraper MCP Service Description

Service Description

The Forex Factory Scraper MCP Service is a powerful tool for traders, analysts, and financial professionals, designed to unlock actionable insights from Forex Factory—a leading hub for forex market data. By automating the extraction and structuring of real-time and historical information, it eliminates manual data collection, enabling users to focus on analysis, strategy development, and informed decision-making. From breaking news to forum sentiment, trading leaderboards, and economic calendars, this service delivers standardized, easy-to-use data that supercharges market understanding and trading performance.

Tool Names and Functions

The service includes 16 specialized MCP tools, each tailored to extract specific data types:

News / Latest Stories: Retrieves latest news articles with titles, links, impact, sources, publication time, and previews.
Entertainment News / Latest Stories: Provides entertainment news details including titles, links, impact, sources, and previews.
Technical Analysis / Latest Stories: Extracts technical analysis articles with titles, links, impact, sources, and previews.
Fundamental Analysis / Most Viewed 12H: Retrieves top fundamental analysis articles from the past 12 hours, with titles, links, and previews.
Get Forum Details: Scrapes forum pages using a URL, order, and sort criteria to extract thread details, user leads, and reply counts.
Get Trades Leaderboard: Extracts real-time trading leaderboard data, including rank, returns, trader names, and profile URLs.
Get Trades: Retrieves real-time trade event data with trade details, trader info, returns, and pips.
Educational News / Latest Stories: Provides educational news titles, links, sources, and previews.
News / Hottest Stories: Extracts trending news stories with titles, links, impact, and previews.
Get Trades Positions: Scrapes real-time trading position data, including long/short counts, percentages, and instrument details.
Forex Industry News / Latest Stories: Retrieves forex industry news with titles, links, impact, and previews.
Get Real Time Calendar Details: Extracts real-time economic calendar data (Forex, Metal, Energy, Crypto) with event dates, times, impact, and values.
Get Forums: Scrapes Forex Factory forums to retrieve forum names, links, thread counts, and reply counts.
Breaking News / Most Viewed 12H: Provides top breaking news from the past 12 hours, with titles, links, and previews.
Get Historical Calendar Details: Extracts historical economic event data (2007–2023) with event context, impact, and expert notes.
Get Forum Thread Details: Scrapes specific forum threads using a URL to extract user posts, usernames, post content, and dates.

Tool Introductions

Each tool simplifies critical tasks, ensuring users access the right data at the right time:

News & Analysis Tools (e.g., News / Latest Stories, Technical Analysis) keep users updated on market-moving events, reducing the need to monitor multiple sources.
Forum Tools (Get Forum Details, Get Forum Thread Details) enable tracking of community sentiment and trader discussions, providing insights into market psychology.
Trading Data Tools (Get Trades Leaderboard, Get Trades Positions) offer real-time visibility into trader performance and position trends, aiding strategy validation.
Calendar Tools (Real Time/Historical Calendar Details) streamline economic event monitoring, from live updates to backtesting with 16+ years of data.

Application Scenarios & Integration Advantages

Application Scenarios

Traders use Real Time Calendar Details to adjust positions ahead of economic events, or Forum Thread Details to gauge sentiment.
Analysts leverage Historical Calendar Details to identify event-impact patterns, or Trades Leaderboard data to benchmark strategies.
Researchers use Get Forums to map community engagement, or Hottest News to track trending market narratives.

Integration Advantages

Built on the MCP protocol, the service ensures standardized data structures across all tools, eliminating the need for custom parsing. This simplifies integration with trading platforms, analytics tools, or internal systems, reducing development time and ensuring consistency. Whether users need real-time alerts or historical datasets, the service delivers structured, ready-to-use data—enabling seamless workflow integration and scalable insights.

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Details

Monthly Tool Calls

320326

Remote

Yes

Published

8/20/2025

Homepage

rapid.xpack.host

Tools (16)

News / Latest Stories

Access the latest news articles from various sources. Retrieve information on news titles, links, impact, sources, publication time, and article previews to stay up-to-date with current events.

Entertainment News / Latest Stories

This API provides details on entertainment news titles, links, impact, sources, source links, publication times, and article previews, keeping you informed about the entertainment industry.

Technical Analysis / Latest Stories

Dive into technical analysis with the latest articles. Retrieve technical analysis news titles, links, impact, sources, source links, publication times, and article previews to make informed decisions in financial markets.

Fundamental Analysis / Most Viewed 12H

Retrieve details on fundamental analysis news titles, links, impact, sources, source links, publication times, and article previews from the past 12 hours.

Get Forum Details

This endpoint is responsible for scraping and extracting details from a specific forum page on ForexFactory. It takes three parameters: forum_link, order, and sort. The forum_link parameter is the URL of the forum to be scraped, while order and sort are used to specify the order and sorting criteria for the forum's threads. The endpoint retrieves the HTML content of the forum page, processes it, and extracts relevant information, including thread details, user leads, last reply, reply previews, and reply counts. Parameters: forum_link (str): The URL of the forum to be scraped. order (str): The order in which threads are displayed (e.g., "asc" or "desc"). sort (str): The sorting criteria for threads (e.g., "replycount" or "lastpost"). Response: Returns a list of ForumThread objects containing the extracted data from the forum page.

Get Trades Leaderboard

This endpoint facilitates the real-time scraping and retrieval of Forex trading leaderboard data from the ForexFactory website. It extracts essential information such as rank, explorer details, return values, trader names, and trader profile URLs. The scraped data is structured and provided as a list of dictionaries for seamless integration and analysis. In case of scraping errors, the endpoint returns an empty list.

Get Trades

This endpoint enables real-time scraping and retrieval of Forex trading data from the ForexFactory website. It gathers comprehensive details for each trade event, including trade information, trader details, return, and pips. The scraped data is presented in a structured format for easy integration and analysis. In case of errors during the scraping process, the endpoint returns an empty list.

Educational News / Latest Stories

Retrieve educational news titles, links, impact, sources, source links, publication times, and article previews to stay informed about educational trends and developments.

News / Hottest Stories

Discover trending news stories with the hottest articles. Access news titles, links, impact, sources, source links, publication times, and article previews for the most popular and trending news stories.

Get Trades Positions

This endpoint enables real-time web scraping of Forex trading position data from the ForexFactory website. It collects comprehensive information for various trading instruments, including the count and percentage of long and short traders. Additionally, it provides a link to access detailed position data for each instrument. The extracted data is structured and delivered as a list of dictionaries for seamless integration and analysis. In case of scraping errors, the endpoint returns an empty list.

Forex Industry News / Latest Stories

Access forex industry news titles, links, impact, sources, source links, publication times, and article previews to keep up with developments in the foreign exchange market.

Get Real Time Calendar Details

This endpoint facilitates the scraping and retrieval of real-time calendar details for various calendar types, including Forex, Metal, Energy, and Crypto, from their respective websites. It gathers essential information for each event, such as the event date, year, time, currency, impact level, event name, actual value, forecast value, and previous value. Additionally, it constructs a link to access the open details of each event.

Get Forums

This endpoint allows you to scrape and retrieve data about various forums on ForexFactory. It sends a GET request to the ForexFactory forums page, extracts details such as the forum name, forum link, thread count, and reply count for each forum, and returns this information as a list of forum objects. Use this endpoint to gather insights into the forums available on ForexFactory.

Breaking News / Most Viewed 12H

Stay ahead of breaking news stories with the most viewed updates. Access breaking news titles, links, impact, sources, source links, publication times, and article previews that have garnered the highest viewership in the last 12 hours.

Get Historical Calendar Details

The Forex Factory Scraper API provides users with real-time financial event data directly from the Forex Factory website https://www.forexfactory.com. Covering events from 2007 to 2023, users can extract key insights for multiple global currencies. Ideal for traders and analysts, this tool delivers detailed event context, expected market impact, and expert notes, all seamlessly integrated via Rapid API for informed trading decisions and market understanding.

Get Forum Thread Details

This endpoint is responsible for scraping and extracting details from a specific forum thread page. It takes a thread_link parameter, which is the URL of the thread to be scraped. The endpoint retrieves the HTML content of the thread page, processes it, and extracts relevant information such as user posts, usernames, profile links, posting date and time, post content, and attachments if available. Parameters: thread_link (str): The URL of the forum thread to be scraped. Response: Returns a list of ThreadPost objects containing the extracted data from the thread page.