Alternative to google finance api

Question

I wanted to use Google Finance API to get stock data about the company but this API is deprecated since 2011/26/05.

What do you use as free API to get stock data in real time?

Answer 1

Updating answer a bit

1. Try Alpha Vantage API

For beginners you can try to get a JSON output from query such as

https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=TIME_SERIES_DAILY&symbol=MSFT&apikey=demo

DON'T Try Yahoo Finance API (it is DEPRECATED or UNAVAILABLE NOW).

• Here is a link to previous Yahoo Finance API discussion on StackOverflow.
• Here's an alternative link to Yahoo Finance API posted on Google Code.

For beginners, you can generate a CSV with a simple API call:

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPL+GOOG+MSFT&f=sb2b3jk

(This will generate and save a CSV for AAPL, GOOG, and MSFT)

Note that you must append the format to the query string (f=..). For an overview of all of the formats see this page.

For more examples, visit this page.

For XML and JSON-based data, you can do the following:

Don't use YQL (Yahoo Query Language)**

For example:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20yahoo.finance
.quotes%20where%20symbol%20in%20(%22YHOO%22%2C%22AAPL%22%2C%22GOOG%22%2C%22
MSFT%22)%0A%09%09&env=http%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltables.env

2. Use the webservice

For example, to get all stock quotes in XML:

http://finance.yahoo.com/webservice/v1/symbols/allcurrencies/quote

To get all stock quotes in JSON, just add format=JSON to the end of the URL:

http://finance.yahoo.com/webservice/v1/symbols/allcurrencies/quote?format=json

Alternatives:

1. Currency API

• 165+ real time currency rates, including few cryptos. Docs here.

2. 1Forge Financial APIs

• Real-time rates for about 40 currency pairs are available here.

3. Financial Content API

• The documentation for this API is very good.

4. Open Exchange Rates

5. Oanda API

6. XE API

7. Xignite API

8. currencylayer API

9. Other APIs - discussed at programmableWeb