Argaam Saudi Arabia Daily Arabic Financial News Dataset
A daily file of Argaam's Arabic financial news — 16 columns covering headline, full article text, the keyword that captured it, publication date, permalink, article ID and an archive reference to the saved page.
The Saudi edition is energy- and markets-led. The supplied sample holds 32 articles from one day: oil pipelines and Iranian exports, the US jobs report and Fed pricing, and board-meeting notices from GCC companies ahead of Q2 results.
The file already exists, because this pipeline runs daily whether you buy it or not. Most vendors start collecting after you order — which is why they quote a lead time. Here the most recent file is in your account within minutes of payment, with an API key issued at the same time.
What you get, in plain terms
Four things. This is the once-a-day version: a complete record of what Gulf investors read, without intraday noise.
The keyword that caught it
Keyword records which tracking term captured each article, so every row arrives already tagged to the company, person, place or theme you are watching.
Energy and macro through a Gulf lens
Caspian pipeline shipments, Iranian oil exports, gold buying by China's central bank and US rate expectations — the stories Saudi investors track, in Arabic.
Board-meeting calendar
Short notices such as “13 August — Orascom Construction board discusses Q2 results” arrive as headlines, giving you an earnings calendar for GCC-listed companies.
However you want it
Direct download, REST API, Amazon S3, Google Cloud, Snowflake or SFTP. The API key comes with the dataset.
Fields included in this dataset
All 16 columns, in the exact order they appear in the file — taken straight from the sample, not from a brochure. The free sample ships with a data dictionary giving an example value for each one.
Sample rows from the real file
Real rows from the sample file, not an illustration. The supplied sample has 32 articles with all 16 columns.
Coverage
Captured daily across argaam.com's Arabic news. One row is one article, identified by its Argaam Article ID and permalink.
| Metric | In the supplied sample | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Articles | 32, all dated 7 August 2026 | A full day of Argaam's Arabic output |
| Distinct keywords | 19 | US, Iran, China, UAE, losses, earnings, pipelines |
| Keyword found in text | 29 of 32 | Tags track the story closely on this feed |
| Article body present | 26 of 32 | The other 6 are headline-only board notices |
| Median article length | 126 words | Up to 223 — concise market briefs |
Journalist · Reach · Web Shares |
0 of 32 | Not published by Argaam — see the FAQ |
Need news within hours rather than daily? A four-times-a-day Argaam feed is also available. Or send a keyword list and we will price a narrower file.
Historical data
The last 30 days come with the dataset. Beyond that we hold Argaam Saudi Arabia records from February 2025 onwards.
Ask about historical dataNeed more data points?
We can extend this dataset beyond the standard 16 columns — an English translation of title and body is the most requested addition, along with a company and ticker field for board notices.
Request custom fields“We track Gulf reaction to oil news. Argaam in Arabic, tagged by keyword, told us more in a week than a month of English-language wires.”
What people use this dataset for
Media monitoring and PR
Track every mention of your company, executives and competitors the day it is published.
Investment and risk teams
Feed timestamped headlines and article text into event studies, sentiment and alerting models.
Market and policy intelligence
Follow a sector, a country or a regulator through the outlet its decision-makers read.
Data and AI teams
Build search, retrieval and evaluation sets on clean, structured article text with full provenance.
About Argaam Saudi Arabia news data
Argaam is the leading Arabic-language financial news service in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. Its daily output is the news flow Saudi investors actually read — global energy and markets, plus a steady stream of announcements from GCC-listed companies.
What was in the sample
On one day in August: drone attacks cutting Caspian pipeline shipments by more than 20%, Iranian oil exports stalled at Kharg Island, China's central bank buying 20 tonnes of gold, FAA inspections of 471 Boeing 737 MAX jets, and the US jobs report reshaping Fed pricing — alongside board-meeting notices from Emirates Takaful, Orascom Construction, Al Sagr Insurance and Taqa.
Tags you can rely on
On this feed the tracking keyword appeared in the captured title or text on 29 of 32 rows, so Keyword works as a ready-made topic label for routing and alerting.
Two things to plan for
Created Time carries the publication date only, and six rows are headline-only board notices with an empty Message. Page Save Path is an internal archive reference for the saved copy of each page — useful for audit, not for analysis.
Is collecting this data legal?
We collect only publicly accessible pages, respect robots.txt and platform terms, and align with GDPR and CCPA — the only personal data in the file is the public byline a publisher prints. Article text remains the publisher's copyright: the standard licence covers internal analysis such as monitoring, research and signal extraction, not republishing. Each row carries its permalink and publication time as documented provenance, so your legal team can review the source before you buy.
Frequently asked questions
Keyword records the tracking term that captured each article. Send us your own list — companies, people, places, tickers — and we will run the feed against it at no extra cost.
