Ticker Symbol Search API Endpoint for Auto-Completion
Repository
https://github.com/yashwanth2804/TickerSymbol
New Project
Ticker Symbol Api End Point
What is the project about?
Recently I had a hackathon challenge to work on real-time stock market data end points. After the hours of research from the various stock market end-point-apis , I had short listed a few. I thought that might be enough to complete my project.
IEX ,
Pros:
A real boon to stock market app developers because of the free unlimited api calls without any limitation.
Cons:
No Realtime data , only with 15 min delay
AlphaVantage,
Pros:
A site for pro developers with near real-time data/live stock data but comes with api key mess and limitation on requests/min made
After a few days of walkthrough, I found myself on the fence because I have to make an auto complete search field like google search box for stock name/symbol searches.
the main catch here is Symbol Search AutoComplete functionality already found in AlphaVantage, that too only 5 API calls/min and 500 api calls/day. Imagine your end user typing keyword of length about 6 char in a minute then you will run out of APIs.
Then I had an idea of mixing the both worlds, no API key mess from IEX and high end functionality from AlphaVantage. At first I googled if any already existed but found none while yahoo fiance api was widely used for keyword search, sadly it's deprecated. I had no other choice to stick to AlphaVintage which costs around $30/month,30 api/min.
Thus I ended up making my own keyword filtering on ~8000 stock symbols downloaded data.I thought it could be great if I could host in cloud so that other devs can also use it.
tickersearch API [Just, I named it so]
Github : https://github.com/yashwanth2804/TickerSymbol
Demo : https://tickersearch.surge.sh/
In order to get the required search result , please provide KEYWORD_SEARCH in the following url
https://ticker-2e1ica8b9.now.sh/keyword/KEYWORD_SEARCH
eg : https://ticker-2e1ica8b9.now.sh/keyword/googl
output
[{"symbol":"GOOGL","name":"Alphabet Inc."}]
Pros
Free Free Free
No API key mess , No email spamming
Nothing more Nothing less
Cons
- Weird API end point url
Technology Stack
NodeJS
Hosted on ZEIT ,with 100GB bandwidth and 3 instances available
Roadmap
documentation support for react,and JavaScript
When user makes a query they will get the live stock price in return with matched results
How to contribute?
Fork it [https://github.com/yashwanth2804/TickerSymbol]
Clone it
[https://github.com/<your_github_name>/TickerSymbol.git or [email protected]:your_github_name/TickerSymbol.git]
git clone https://github.com/your_github_name/TickerSymbol.git
Create a branch
cd first-contributions
git checkout -b
Add features
git add you_worked_files
git commit -m "what your features"
push it
git push origin your_branch
Submit a pull request
Then from your account make a pull request