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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Of course.
We have a paid enterprise product: OpenBB Terminal Pro (https://openbb.co/products/pro).
In it, users have access to several datasets that we have redistribution rights for. This enables users to export any dataset but also to access that same financial data through our Excel Add-in.
Most retail financial products only have display rights as it's much cheaper than the redistribution license.
Comment · 2 years ago
You can also check OpenBB, one of the most known projects in this category: https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal
Most data vendors will require a free API key because that's their GTM. They want you to create an account with them to get a free API key and then expect to be able to upsell you over time.
Or you can access "free data" (e.g. yfinance) that relies on projects who actively scrape financial data from a website - these tend to need a lot of updates from main maintainer since there are no aligned incentives between maintainer of the scrapped API and company that has the data.
PS: I'm the main creator behind the OpenBB project on GitHub.
Comment · 2 years ago
Excited to try this out!
Comment · 3 years ago
Easily create HTML webviewers in python utilizing the wry library. Unlike many HTML viewers that exist for Python - Pywry allows you to run javacsript.
PyWry is also a ~2mb footprint for Mac and Windows - Linux will require a few more libraries which are listed below.
Comment · 3 years ago
There's almost 100 in total
Some of them can be found here: https://docs.openbb.co/terminal/quickstart/api-keys
Comment · 3 years ago
All data sources on the terminal allow you to use them for free. The only thing needed is you signing up on their page to get an API key.
https://docs.openbb.co/terminal/quickstart/api-keys
After that your API key will allow you limited usage, e.g. AlphaVantage allows 5 requests per minute. This means that if you want more access you'll have to subscribe to one of their premium tiers.
Comment · 3 years ago
From 92 different data sources.
It's not our data, it's their data. We just provide it under OpenBB terminal and API, in 1 place. So you don't need to read 10 different data sources documentations and it's all standardized by us
Comment · 3 years ago
Best comment I've read so far. Agree.
Comment · 3 years ago
Appreciate this more than you know.
What we did was wrong, everyone knows it. We came out and apologized. We discussed this for days after it happened internally and with our investors/advisors. But there's nothing else we can do.
We have the OpenBB Platform CLI, a command line interface (CLI) that allows users to access a lot of financial data but needs to bring each API key.
The reason why this works is that once you run the CLI, you are running it on your machine and leveraging your own API keys - which, when you subscribe you sign for Terms and Conditions.
And, in it, it usually states that you cannot use the data for any commercial purpose.
This is what most data vendors do. Not only because they are trying to upsell you but because giving you access to data costs them money.
So, most of the APIs that you find that are free and have the rights to distribute that data are usually from governments (e.g. FRED or Companies House https://developer.company-information.service.gov.uk/get-sta...)