Snapshot

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👋 Overview

The Snapshot API lets you pull the latest real-time price for a given ticker. We cover all actively traded US stocks.

The real-time price is the last price that was traded for the ticker on exchanges like NASDAQ, NYSE, and AMEX.

To get started, please create an account and grab your API key at financialdatasets.ai.

You will use the API key to authenticate your API requests.

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🚀 Getting Started

There are only 3 steps for making a successful API call:

1. Add your API key to the header of the request as X-API-KEY.
2. Add query params like ticker to filter the data.
3. Execute the API request.

Note: You must provide the ticker.

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💻 Example

import requests

# add your API key to the headers
headers = {
    "X-API-KEY": "your_api_key_here"
}

# set your query params
ticker = 'AAPL'

# create the URL
url = (
    f'https://api.financialdatasets.ai/prices/snapshot'
    f'?ticker={ticker}'
)

# make API request
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

# parse snapshot from the response
snapshot = response.json().get('snapshot')