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volatilityMan
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Real time stock data

May 1st, 2018, 9:13 am

Hi guys

Does anyone have a good way of getting real time price data on stocks? 
Currently, I'm having the yahoo finance and other web pages open and basically look at the price changes. However, I would like to be able to extract the data directly either by scraping but even better with some kind of API solution (since yahoo finance and others are constantly delayed and often even don't update for several minutes)

Obviously, I could pay my way through and access via a provider but I think it's much more fun to program it myself (I prefer Python or Matlab).

Thanks :-) 
 
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FaridMoussaoui
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Re: Real time stock data

May 2nd, 2018, 3:47 pm

If you are following the US market, you can use Tiingo API. Just get a key API for FREE and you can download historical/realtime data.

Tiingo API integration

There is also Alpha Vantage:   Link to Alpha vantage web site