Finance historical options data (with strikes etc) on google finance API

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0dd_b1t picture 0dd_b1t · Mar 10, 2012 · Viewed 15.5k times · Source

Can anyone provide how to get historical options data with strikes by Google Finance API? Mbe Yahoo API can do it? Thx.

Answer

Di Wu picture Di Wu · May 11, 2012

AFAIK, there's no free API that lets you query for historical option prices easily.

Your best shot may be to collect it daily for the stocks you're interested in: http://www.google.com/finance/option_chain?q=AAPL&output=json

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