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From: Ali <31619891+jubeiargh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:58:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add finlight to Market Data & Data Sources (#454)

Adds finlight, a real-time news API for global finance, markets and geopolitics with sentiment and entity enrichment (tickers, exchanges), delivered over REST and WebSocket. Open-source Python and TypeScript SDKs (MIT, actively released: Python 2.2.1 Feb 2026, TypeScript 3.4.0 May 2026). Placed under Market Data & Data Sources per the placement rule for projects with GitHub repositories. No duplicate in README or prior PRs.
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@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ A curated list of insanely awesome libraries, packages and resources for Quants
 - [pytdx](https://github.com/rainx/pytdx) - `Python` - Python Interface for retrieving chinese stock realtime quote data from TongDaXin Nodes.
 - [pdblp](https://github.com/matthewgilbert/pdblp) - `Python` - A simple interface to integrate pandas and the Bloomberg Open API.
 - [tiingo](https://github.com/hydrosquall/tiingo-python) - `Python` - Python interface for daily composite prices/OHLC/Volume + Real-time News Feeds, powered by the Tiingo Data Platform.
+- [finlight](https://finlight.me) - `Python` `TypeScript` - Real-time financial and geopolitical news API with sentiment analysis and entity tagging over REST and WebSocket. [GitHub](https://github.com/jubeiargh/finlight-client-py)
 - [iexfinance](https://github.com/addisonlynch/iexfinance) - `Python` - Python Interface for retrieving real-time and historical prices and equities data from The Investor's Exchange.
 - [pyEX](https://github.com/timkpaine/pyEX) - `Python` - Python interface to IEX with emphasis on pandas, support for streaming data, premium data, points data (economic, rates, commodities), and technical indicators.
 - [alpaca-trade-api](https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-python) - `Python` - Python interface for retrieving real-time and historical prices from Alpaca API as well as trade execution.