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GET
/
prices
/
snapshot
Price Snapshot (Real-Time)
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.financialdatasets.ai/prices/snapshot \
  --header 'X-API-KEY: <api-key>'
{
  "snapshot": {
    "price": 123,
    "ticker": "<string>",
    "day_change": 123,
    "day_change_percent": 123,
    "time": "<string>",
    "time_milliseconds": 123
  }
}

Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.financialdatasets.ai/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

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Overview

The Snapshot API lets you pull a price snapshot for a given ticker. We cover all actively traded US stocks. 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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Available Tickers

You can fetch a list of available tickers with a GET request to: https://api.financialdatasets.ai/prices/snapshot/tickers/

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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

Price Snapshot
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')

Authorizations

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X-API-KEY
string
header
required

API key for authentication.

Query Parameters

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ticker
string
required

The stock ticker symbol (e.g. AAPL, MSFT).

Response

Price snapshot response

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snapshot
object