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Whether youʼre new to the platform or looking for extra examples, this tutorial will guide you on how to get started with the most frequently used API calls on IEX Cloud. See how to build requests from step one, including how to access real-time stock prices, historical stock prices, use international symbols, and more.
Directory
00:00 – 04:57: Introduction to the platform
04:57 – 13:38: The basic components of the API
13:38 – 29:56: Examples
29:56 – 36:40: Python sample
36:40 – 39:29: Next steps and additional resources
39:29 – 52:33: Q&A recording
Example API Requests
During the session, we build the following API requests together.
Note that the below use our sandbox environment.
1. Historical daily end-of-day stock prices for international symbols:
See international symbol suffixes
2. Historical minute-by-minute stock prices for a specific day:
Minute-by-minute data is available for the last 30 trailing calendar days.
3. The current dayʼs minute-by-minute stock prices, using free IEX data:
4. Real-time stock prices using the Quote endpoint:
To access a specific field from the Quote endpoint, such as latestPrice, you can set up your request as seen below:
Read more about accessing real-time stock prices and which fields mean what in our help guide.
5. A batch request for accessing historical prices from multiple symbols in one API call – this also has a range of the last 5 days:
6. A batch request for accessing historical prices and intraday prices from multiple symbols in one API call. Intraday prices are set to use free IEX data only:
7. Retrieving specific values from the Stats endpoint, such as Market Cap:
Sample Python Code
Hereʼs a basic example of how you can implement the IEX Cloud API within a simple Python script that prints the data.
The second example shows how to retrieve a specific value from the Key Stats endpoint.
Help Articles from the Tutorial
The resources below will help you get started.
The Essentials
A walk-through of the platformʼs basics.
Read more about the fundamental units used for accessing data on the platform.
Learn how to structure your requests to access historical end-of-day prices for non-U.S. symbols.
Real-time and 15-minute delayed stock prices
See which fields to use from our Quote endpoint.
Access curated alternative datasets from third-party partners.
Next steps and additional tools
Set up rule-based alerts that push data to you when conditions of your choice are met across IEX Cloud datasets.
Set domain restrictions on your API token.
Stream updated stock prices and forex rates from IEX Cloud.
