jamiesampey / quantaway

Work in Progress... QuantAway will be a quantitative analysis and back-testing tool. Code is ES6 Javascript implemented in the MERN stack.
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Choose a finance API to pull from #1

Open jamiesampey opened 6 years ago

jamiesampey commented 6 years ago

Looks like Google Finance and Yahoo Finance were popular choices in the past, but they are both dead now. Looks like AlphaAdvantage, Quandl, and Stooq are options now. See this post and the API list at the end:

http://www.financial-hacker.com/bye-yahoo-and-thank-you-for-the-fish/

jamiesampey commented 6 years ago

NPM package for Alpha Vantage API. This is a promise-based API 👍: https://www.npmjs.com/package/alphavantage https://github.com/zackurben/alphavantage

NPM package for Quandl API. This is a callback-based API: https://www.npmjs.com/package/quandl https://github.com/normanjoyner/node-quandl