Candles

Get historical price candles for a stock.

Endpoint

https://api.marketdata.app/v1/stocks/candles/{resolution}/{symbol}

Method

GET

Request Example

HTTP

GET https://api.marketdata.app/v1/stocks/candles/D/AAPL?from=2020-01-01&to=2020-12-31

NodeJS

app.js

fetch(
  "https://api.marketdata.app/v1/stocks/candles/D/AAPL?from=2020-01-01&to=2020-12-31"
)
  .then((res) => {
    console.log(res);
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.log(err);
  });

fetch(
  "https://api.marketdata.app/v1/stocks/candles/D/AAPL?from=2020-12-31&countback=252"
)
  .then((res) => {
    console.log(res);
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.log(err);
  });

Python

app.py

import requests

url1 = "https://api.marketdata.app/v1/stocks/candles/D/AAPL?from=2020-01-01&to=2020-12-31"
url2 = "https://api.marketdata.app/v1/stocks/candles/D/AAPL?from=2020-12-31&countback=252"

response1 = requests.request("GET", url1)
response2 = requests.request("GET", url2)

print(response1.text)
print(response2.text)

Response Example

{
  "s": "ok",
  "c": [217.68, 221.03, 219.89],
  "h": [222.49, 221.5, 220.94],
  "l": [217.19, 217.1402, 218.83],
  "o": [221.03, 218.55, 220],
  "t": [1569297600, 1569384000, 1569470400],
  "v": [33463820, 24018876, 20730608]
}

Request Parameters

Required

• resolution string

  The duration of each candle.

  • Minutely Resolutions: (minutely, 1, 3, 5, 15, 30, 45, ...)
  • Hourly Resolutions: (hourly, H, 1H, 2H, ...)
  • Daily Resolutions: (daily, D, 1D, 2D, ...)
  • Weekly Resolutions: (weekly, W, 1W, 2W, ...)
  • Monthly Resolutions: (monthly, M, 1M, 2M, ...)
  • Yearly Resolutions:(yearly, Y, 1Y, 2Y, ...)

• symbol string

  The company's ticker symbol. If no exchange is specified, by default a US exchange will be assumed. You may embed the exchange in the ticker symbol using the Yahoo Finance or TradingView formats. A company or securities identifier can also be used instead of a ticker symbol.

  • Ticker Formats: (TICKER, TICKER.EX, EXCHANGE:TICKER)
  • Company Identifiers: (CIK, LEI)
  • Securities Identifiers: (CUSIP, SEDOL, ISIN, FIGI)

• from date

  The leftmost candle on a chart (inclusive). If you use countback, to is not required. Accepted timestamp inputs: ISO 8601, unix, spreadsheet.

• to date

  The rightmost candle on a chart (not inclusive). Accepted timestamp inputs: ISO 8601, unix, spreadsheet.

• countback number

  Countback will fetch a number of candles before (to the left of) to If you use from, countback is not required.

Optional

• exchange string

  Use to specify the exchange of the ticker. This is useful when you need to specify stock that quotes on several exchanges with the same symbol. You may specify the exchange using the EXCHANGE ACRONYM, MIC CODE, or two digit YAHOO FINANCE EXCHANGE CODE. If no exchange is specified symbols will be matched to US exchanges first.

• extended boolean

  Include extended hours trading sessions when returning intraday candles. Daily resolutions never return extended hours candles. The default is false

• country string

  Use to specify the country of the exchange (not the country of the company) in conjunction with the symbol argument. This argument is useful when you know the ticker symbol and the country of the exchange, but not the exchange code. Use the two digit ISO 3166 country code. If no country is specified, US exchanges will be assumed.

• adjustsplits boolean

  Adjust historical data for for historical splits and reverse splits. Market Data uses the CRSP methodology for adjustment. Daily candles default: true. Intraday candles default: false.

caution

Adjusted dividend data is planned for the future, but not yet implemented. All data is currently returned unadjusted for dividends.

• adjustdividends boolean

  Adjust candles for dividends. Market Data uses the CRSP methodology for adjustment. Daily candles default: true. Intraday candles default: false.

Response Attributes

Success

• s string

  ll always be ok when there is data for the candles requested.

• o array[number]

  Open price.

• h array[number]

  High price.

• l array[number]

  Low price.

• c array[number]

  Close price.

• v array[number]

  Volume.

• t array[number] Candle time (Unix timestamp, UTC). Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly candles are returned without times.

No Data

• s string

  Status will be no_data if no candles are found for the request.

• nextTime number optional

  Unix time of the next quote if there is no data in the requested period, but there is data in a subsequent period.

Error

• s string

  Status will be error if the request produces an error response.

• errmsg string An error message.