Alpha Vantage Data Parser & API

Alpha Vantage is a widely used financial-data API that delivers intraday and historical OHLCV for global equities, FX and crypto, plus 50+ technical indicators and macro-economic series — and StockAPIS extracts and normalizes all of it through a single unified REST API. Alpha Vantage offers an official public REST API (free tier with API key, paid premium tiers), and StockAPIS wraps it in the same schema you use for every other source, so quotes, candles and indicators line up with your other exchanges and data vendors without separate integrations.

Platform Overview

Market Position

• A leading independent, developer-first market-data API used across fintech, research and trading apps
• Broad coverage — US and international equities, forex pairs, crypto, commodities and economic indicators
• 50+ built-in technical indicators (SMA, EMA, RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands and more) computed server-side
• Official REST API with a free key and tiered premium plans; StockAPIS adds unified normalization on top

Data Coverage

StockAPIS exposes the full Alpha Vantage data surface:

• Equity time series — intraday (1/5/15/30/60min), daily, weekly and monthly OHLCV, adjusted and raw
• Global quote — latest price, change, percent change, volume and previous close for a symbol
• Forex — real-time exchange rates plus intraday and daily FX time series across currency pairs
• Crypto — digital-asset exchange rates and daily/intraday series in any quote market
• Technical indicators — SMA, EMA, RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, ADX, STOCH and 40+ more
• Fundamental & economic data — company overviews, earnings, plus GDP, inflation and Treasury yields

Quick Start

import stockapis
 
client = stockapis.Client(api_key="your-api-key")
 
# Intraday OHLCV for an equity symbol
aapl = client.alpha_vantage.get_time_series(symbol="AAPL", function="TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY", interval="1min")
latest = aapl["timeSeries"][0]
print(f"AAPL close: ${latest['close']}  ·  vol {latest['volume']}")

const { StockAPIS } = require("stockapis");
const client = new StockAPIS({ apiKey: "your-api-key" });
 
// Latest global quote for a symbol
const quote = await client.alphaVantage.getGlobalQuote({ symbol: "MSFT" });
console.log(`${quote.symbol}: $${quote.price} (${quote.changePercent})`);

Sample API Response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "function": "GLOBAL_QUOTE",
    "symbol": "AAPL",
    "open": "185.92",
    "high": "186.25",
    "low": "185.80",
    "price": "185.95",
    "volume": "456789",
    "latestTradingDay": "2024-01-15",
    "previousClose": "184.80",
    "change": "1.15",
    "changePercent": "0.62%"
  },
  "metadata": {
    "source": "alpha-vantage",
    "timestamp": "2024-01-15T21:00:00.000Z",
    "timeZone": "US/Eastern"
  }
}

Use Cases

• Quant research & backtesting — pull adjusted daily and intraday OHLCV history to develop and validate signals
• Technical analysis dashboards — fetch server-computed SMA, RSI and MACD without recalculating client-side
• Multi-asset apps — combine equities, FX and crypto rates on one normalized schema for portfolio tooling
• Macro & fundamentals overlays — enrich price views with earnings, company overviews and economic indicators

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Alpha Vantage have an official API? Yes — Alpha Vantage provides an official public REST API with a free API key and paid premium tiers. StockAPIS wraps it in a unified schema so its data matches every other source you pull.

What data can I get from Alpha Vantage through StockAPIS? Intraday and historical OHLCV for global equities, real-time global quotes, forex and crypto exchange rates, 50+ technical indicators, plus company fundamentals and economic series.

Can I get technical indicators directly? Yes — Alpha Vantage computes 50+ indicators (SMA, EMA, RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands and more) server-side, and StockAPIS returns them in a consistent normalized format.

Related Resources

• API reference
• Financial data APIs