Alternative to google finance api

Updating answer a bit

1. Try Twelve Data API

For beginners try to run the following query with a JSON response:

https://api.twelvedata.com/time_series?symbol=AAPL&interval=1min&apikey=demo&source=docs

NO more real time Alpha Vantage API

For beginners you can try to get a JSON output from query such as

https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=TIME_SERIES_DAILY&symbol=MSFT&apikey=demo

DON'T Try Yahoo Finance API (it is DEPRECATED or UNAVAILABLE NOW).

  • Here is a link to previous Yahoo Finance API discussion on StackOverflow.
  • Here's an alternative link to Yahoo Finance API posted on Google Code.

For beginners, you can generate a CSV with a simple API call:

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPL+GOOG+MSFT&f=sb2b3jk

(This will generate and save a CSV for AAPL, GOOG, and MSFT)

Note that you must append the format to the query string (f=..). For an overview of all of the formats see this page.

For more examples, visit this page.

For XML and JSON-based data, you can do the following:

Don't use YQL (Yahoo Query Language)

For example:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20yahoo.finance
.quotes%20where%20symbol%20in%20(%22YHOO%22%2C%22AAPL%22%2C%22GOOG%22%2C%22
MSFT%22)%0A%09%09&env=http%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltables.env

2. Use the webservice

For example, to get all stock quotes in XML:

http://finance.yahoo.com/webservice/v1/symbols/allcurrencies/quote

To get all stock quotes in JSON, just add format=JSON to the end of the URL:

http://finance.yahoo.com/webservice/v1/symbols/allcurrencies/quote?format=json

Alternatives:

  1. Currency API

    • 165+ real time currency rates, including few cryptos. Docs here.

  2. Financial Content API

    • The documentation for this API is very good.

  3. IEX

  4. Open Exchange Rates

  5. Polygon

  6. XE API

  7. Xignite API

  8. currencylayer API

  9. Other APIs - discussed at programmableWeb


I'm way late, but check out Quandl. They have an API for stock prices and fundamentals.

Here's an example call, using Quandl-api download in csv

example: 

https://www.quandl.com/api/v1/datasets/WIKI/AAPL.csv?column=4&sort_order=asc&collapse=quarterly&trim_start=2012-01-01&trim_end=2013-12-31

They support these languages. Their source data comes from Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, NSE, BSE, FSE, HKEX, LSE, SSE, TSE and more (see here).


I'd suggest using TradeKing's developer API. It is very good and free to use. All that is required is that you have an account with them and to my knowledge you don't have to carry a balance ... only to be registered.

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