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Access stock OHLCV data, financial statements, forex rates, crypto prices, technical indicators, and market news from Alpha Vantage via 13 endpoints.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/d56864ac-4e63-44db-9685-98dd1d46ef02/get_daily_time_series?symbol=AAPL' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Get daily OHLCV time series for a stock symbol. Returns up to 100 most recent daily data points by default.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| symbolrequired | string | Stock ticker symbol (e.g. IBM, AAPL, MSFT). |
| api_key | string | Alpha Vantage API key. A built-in key is used when omitted. |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"Meta Data": "object containing symbol, last refreshed date, output size, and time zone",
"Time Series (Daily)": "object keyed by date strings, each containing open, high, low, close, and volume"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"Meta Data": {
"2. Symbol": "AAPL",
"5. Time Zone": "US/Eastern",
"1. Information": "Daily Prices (open, high, low, close) and Volumes",
"4. Output Size": "Compact",
"3. Last Refreshed": "2026-05-01"
},
"Time Series (Daily)": {
"2026-05-01": {
"3. low": "278.3700",
"1. open": "278.8550",
"2. high": "287.2200",
"4. close": "280.1400",
"5. volume": "77938859"
}
}
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the alphavantage.co API
This API exposes 13 endpoints covering equities, forex, cryptocurrency, and financial statement data from Alpha Vantage. You can pull daily OHLCV time series via get_daily_time_series, retrieve full income statements and balance sheets, calculate technical indicators like RSI and MACD, and fetch market news with per-article sentiment scores — all through a consistent interface without managing Alpha Vantage credentials directly.
Market Prices and Quotes
get_global_quote returns the latest snapshot for a stock symbol, including open, high, low, close, volume, previous close, and change percentage. For historical context, get_daily_time_series returns up to 100 recent trading days of OHLCV data keyed by date string. The search_ticker endpoint accepts a keyword and returns matching symbols with name, type, region, currency, market open/close times, and a numeric match score — useful for letting users resolve company names to tickers before querying price data.
Financial Statements and Earnings
Three endpoints cover the core financial statements: get_income_statement, get_balance_sheet, and get_cash_flow. Each returns both annualReports and quarterlyReports arrays for the requested symbol. get_company_overview adds context with fields like PERatio, MarketCapitalization, Description, Sector, and Industry. For EPS tracking, get_earnings provides annualEarnings and quarterlyEarnings arrays — the quarterly array includes reported date, estimated EPS, reported EPS, and the earnings surprise value.
Forex, Crypto, and Technical Indicators
get_fx_exchange_rate accepts from_currency and to_currency parameters and returns the real-time exchange rate along with bid and ask prices and a last-refreshed timestamp. Cryptocurrency daily OHLCV data is available via get_crypto_daily, which accepts a symbol (e.g. BTC, ETH) and an optional market currency parameter. get_technical_indicator is a flexible endpoint driven by a function parameter that accepts indicator names such as SMA, EMA, RSI, MACD, BBANDS, STOCH, ADX, and others. You can also set interval, time_period, and series_type to control the calculation inputs.
News Sentiment and Market Status
get_news_sentiment returns a feed array of news articles, each carrying title, URL, publication time, authors, summary, source domain, topic classifications, and both an overall sentiment score and a sentiment label. The optional tickers parameter accepts a comma-separated list to filter articles by symbol. get_market_status returns current open/closed status for major exchanges worldwide, including local trading hours and region metadata.
- Build a stock screener that pulls
PERatio,MarketCapitalization, and sector fromget_company_overviewto filter equities. - Display real-time forex bid/ask spreads for currency pairs using
get_fx_exchange_rate. - Backtest a moving average strategy by feeding
get_daily_time_seriesOHLCV data into a pandas DataFrame. - Track earnings surprise history quarter-over-quarter using
quarterlyEarningsfromget_earnings. - Build a news sentiment dashboard that filters articles by multiple tickers using the
tickersparameter inget_news_sentiment. - Plot RSI or Bollinger Bands on a chart by requesting indicator values from
get_technical_indicatorwith the appropriatefunctionandtime_period. - Show users which exchanges are currently open using
get_market_statusbefore executing a trade alert.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Alpha Vantage have an official developer API?+
What does `get_technical_indicator` return and which indicators are supported?+
Meta Data object and a Technical Analysis object keyed by date strings. Each date entry contains the computed indicator value(s) for that period. The function parameter controls which indicator is calculated; supported values include SMA, EMA, RSI, MACD, BBANDS, STOCH, ADX, CCI, AROON, and MFI. You can further tune the calculation with interval (e.g. daily, 15min), time_period, and series_type (open, high, low, close).Does `get_daily_time_series` return full historical data going back many years?+
outputsize=full parameter for longer history, but that option is not currently exposed as an input on this endpoint. You can fork the API on Parse and revise it to pass outputsize=full to retrieve extended historical data.Is intraday (minute-level) OHLCV data available through this API?+
get_daily_time_series and get_global_quote. Intraday intervals are available through Alpha Vantage's official API but are not exposed as a dedicated endpoint here. You can fork the API on Parse and revise it to add an intraday time series endpoint.What is a known limitation of the financial statement endpoints?+
get_company_overview endpoint can be used to confirm whether a symbol has data before requesting its statements.