Sup /biz/
I want to build a financial app that will use market data. Wondering if anyone has experience with this.
I am in need of a service that will allow me to pull in market data.
Best vendor?
Free vendor?
>>1768917
www.google.com
What exactly do you need? Real time, per tick data? Or just end of day data?
Google Finance has a unofficial API that gives you realtime data for the last 14 days. Its not legal but...
>>1769050
What's not legal? To archive said data?
>>1768917
I have some experience with this at work (Investment Consulting Firm).
We used to use Morningstar, now we use Lipper data. I think the services are fairly expensive though. Bloomberg also has an API but I have never used it.
Programmable web might be a good place to start evaluating APIs for this...
https://www.programmableweb.com/news/96-stocks-apis-bloomberg-nasdaq-and-etrade/2013/05/22
>>1768917
Use Excel