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Re:A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker by jdoss on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @08:46AM (#26013516)
A free API key is great, but what is the catch? The whole Robinhood drama about them selling data to third parties has me leery about anything "free" in finance SaaS.
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Re:A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker by alisonkisk on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:03AM (#26014171)
Robinhood drama isn't "selling data" it's selling access to fulfill bids.

It's akin ordering delivery from a store and having Instacart be the only option.

Most of the drama was misinformed speculation. A bit was suspicion that the order fulfiller was untrustworthy (because the reason they are willing to provide the service is that they know you will make bad trades, so what happens if you make a good trade that makes them lose money?)

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Re:A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker by kristopolous on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @08:50AM (#26013555)
It's tiered. They have a "pay me" tier.
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Re:A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker by jdoss on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @08:53AM (#26013576)
I totally missed that. Thanks!

edit: For those wondering what the price is it's on this page https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/ which is not very apparent from the front page.

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Re:A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker by Terretta on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @09:32AM (#26013873)
They mention they are “partnered with” https://polygon.io/stocks and send you there for real time.
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Re:A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker by welterde on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @09:08AM (#26013684)
Sadly the limits for the free tier look too low to even run this CLI ticker application off of it (or is it possible to query more than one symbol in one API call?).
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Re:A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker by slig on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @09:30AM (#26013859)
FWIW, last year I was playing with this API and they were not verifying the key properly: just appended anything at the end of the key and it worked.
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