Get News Signal by ID

curl --request GET \
  --url https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/news-signals/{signalId} \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>'

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-API-Key': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/news-signals/{signalId}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/news-signals/{signalId}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "X-API-Key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/news-signals/{signalId}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/news-signals/{signalId}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "signal_id": 538589,
  "article_id": 914756,
  "article_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/petterblid_so-proud-to-share-our-q2-report-today-and-activity-7481238353364054018-obd_",
  "published_date": "2026-07-10",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-10T09:19:40.270718Z",
  "title": "So proud to share our Q2 report today and the results the team at Litium has delivered.",
  "title_original": "So proud to share our Q2 report today and the results the team at Litium has delivered.",
  "featured_image_url": "https://www.breakit.se/img/default.png",
  "categories": [
    "Revenue Update",
    "Profitability Update",
    "Growth"
  ],
  "entity_id": "5e3bbea200c8f4c9669f6601",
  "company_name": "Litium",
  "company_domain": "litium.com",
  "meaningful_updates": [
    "REVENUE_UPDATE",
    "PROFIT_UPDATE"
  ],
  "whats_new": "Litium ARR SEK 100M (prev ~SEK 90M in 2025); returned to profitability, Cash EBITDA positive in June.",
  "score": 4,
  "traction": "SEK 100M ARR, Net revenue increased 32%, ARR grew 19%, Returned to profitability, Cash EBITDA positive in June"
}

{
  "errorCode": "API_KEY_MISSING",
  "message": "No API Key was presented on the header X-API-KEY"
}

{
  "errorCode": "OUT_OF_CREDITS",
  "message": "<string>"
}

{
  "errorCode": "NOT_PERMITTED",
  "message": "You do not have permission to access this resource."
}

{
  "errorCode": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>"
}

{
  "errorCode": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>"
}

News Signals

Get News Signal by ID

Returns a single news signal by its integer Specter signal ID.

Costs 1 credit per request.

What you need

A news signal ID (integer); get one from Get company news or Get News Signals for a saved company search.

Behaviour

signalId is an integer and is required.
Returns 404 if the signal doesn’t exist.

What you do next

Open the company. Follow entity_id to Get company by ID.
See its full news history. Get every signal for that company with Get company news.

GET

news-signals

{signalId}

Get News Signal by ID

curl --request GET \
  --url https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/news-signals/{signalId} \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>'

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-API-Key': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/news-signals/{signalId}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/news-signals/{signalId}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "X-API-Key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/news-signals/{signalId}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/news-signals/{signalId}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "signal_id": 538589,
  "article_id": 914756,
  "article_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/petterblid_so-proud-to-share-our-q2-report-today-and-activity-7481238353364054018-obd_",
  "published_date": "2026-07-10",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-10T09:19:40.270718Z",
  "title": "So proud to share our Q2 report today and the results the team at Litium has delivered.",
  "title_original": "So proud to share our Q2 report today and the results the team at Litium has delivered.",
  "featured_image_url": "https://www.breakit.se/img/default.png",
  "categories": [
    "Revenue Update",
    "Profitability Update",
    "Growth"
  ],
  "entity_id": "5e3bbea200c8f4c9669f6601",
  "company_name": "Litium",
  "company_domain": "litium.com",
  "meaningful_updates": [
    "REVENUE_UPDATE",
    "PROFIT_UPDATE"
  ],
  "whats_new": "Litium ARR SEK 100M (prev ~SEK 90M in 2025); returned to profitability, Cash EBITDA positive in June.",
  "score": 4,
  "traction": "SEK 100M ARR, Net revenue increased 32%, ARR grew 19%, Returned to profitability, Cash EBITDA positive in June"
}

{
  "errorCode": "API_KEY_MISSING",
  "message": "No API Key was presented on the header X-API-KEY"
}

{
  "errorCode": "OUT_OF_CREDITS",
  "message": "<string>"
}

{
  "errorCode": "NOT_PERMITTED",
  "message": "You do not have permission to access this resource."
}

{
  "errorCode": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>"
}

{
  "errorCode": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>"
}

Authorizations

X-API-Key

string

header

required

Path Parameters

signalId

integer

required

The ID of the news signal being requested.

Response

The requested news signal.

A single classified company mention within a news article; if an article mentions multiple companies, each mention is recorded as a separate signal.

signal_id

integer

required

Unique identifier for this news signal.

Example:

538589

article_id

integer

required

Underlying article id. Articles that mention multiple companies share this id across signals.

Example:

914756

article_url

string

required

The URL linking to the original source article.

Example:

"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/petterblid_so-proud-to-share-our-q2-report-today-and-activity-7481238353364054018-obd_"

published_date

string<date>

required

Date (YYYY-MM-DD) the article was published.

Example:

"2026-07-10"

fetched_at

string<date-time>

required

Timestamp Specter fetched the article.

Example:

"2026-07-10T09:19:40.270718Z"

title

string

required

Article title in English (translated when needed).

Example:

"So proud to share our Q2 report today and the results the team at Litium has delivered."

title_original

string

required

Article title in the original publication language.

Example:

"So proud to share our Q2 report today and the results the team at Litium has delivered."

featured_image_url

string

required

URL to the article's featured image.

Example:

"https://www.breakit.se/img/default.png"

Enrich

Search

Companies

People

Investors

Transactions

Signals

Lists

Saved Searches

Network

Account

Get News Signal by ID

What you need

Behaviour

What you do next

Authorizations

Path Parameters

Response