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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
by jdoss 6y ago
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.
- kristopolous 6y agoIt's tiered. They have a "pay me" tier.
- jdoss 6y agoI totally missed that. Thanks! edit: For those wondering what the price is it's on this page https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/ https://www.alphavantage.co/premium/ which is not very apparent from the front page.
- welterde 6y agoSadly 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?).
- slig 6y agoFWIW, 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.
- Terretta 6y agoThey mention they are “partnered with” https://polygon.io/stocks https://polygon.io/stocks and send you there for real time.
- alisonkisk 6y agoRobinhood 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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