/alpha-vantage

name: alpha-vantage
description: Access real-time and historical stock market data, forex rates, cryptocurrency prices, commodities, economic indicators, and 50+ technical indicators via the Alpha Vantage API. Use when fetching stock prices (OHLCV), company fundamentals (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow), earnings, options data, market news/sentiment, insider transactions, GDP, CPI, treasury yields, gold/silver/oil prices, Bitcoin/crypto prices, forex exchange rates, or calculating technical indicators (SMA, EMA, MACD, RSI, Bollinger Bands). Requires a free API key from alphavantage.co.
license: Unknown
metadata:
    skill-author: K-Dense Inc.

Alpha Vantage — Financial Market Data

Access 20+ years of global financial data: equities, options, forex, crypto, commodities, economic indicators, and 50+ technical indicators.

API Key Setup (Required)

1. Get a free key at https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key (premium plans available for higher rate limits) 2. Set as environment variable:

export ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY="your_key_here"

Installation

uv pip install requests pandas

Base URL & Request Pattern

All requests go to:

https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=FUNCTION_NAME&apikey=YOUR_KEY&...params

import requests
import os

API_KEY = os.environ.get("ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY")
BASE_URL = "https://www.alphavantage.co/query"

def av_get(function, **params):
    response = requests.get(BASE_URL, params={"function": function, "apikey": API_KEY, **params})
    return response.json()

Quick Start Examples

# Stock quote (latest price)
quote = av_get("GLOBAL_QUOTE", symbol="AAPL")
price = quote["Global Quote"]["05. price"]

# Daily OHLCV
daily = av_get("TIME_SERIES_DAILY", symbol="AAPL", outputsize="compact")
ts = daily["Time Series (Daily)"]

# Company fundamentals
overview = av_get("OVERVIEW", symbol="AAPL")
print(overview["MarketCapitalization"], overview["PERatio"])

# Income statement
income = av_get("INCOME_STATEMENT", symbol="AAPL")
annual = income["annualReports"][0]  # Most recent annual

# Crypto price
crypto = av_get("DIGITAL_CURRENCY_DAILY", symbol="BTC", market="USD")

# Economic indicator
gdp = av_get("REAL_GDP", interval="annual")

# Technical indicator
rsi = av_get("RSI", symbol="AAPL", interval="daily", time_period=14, series_type="close")

API Categories

| Category | Key Functions | |----------|--------------| | **Time Series (Stocks)** | GLOBAL_QUOTE, TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY, TIME_SERIES_DAILY, TIME_SERIES_WEEKLY, TIME_SERIES_MONTHLY | | **Options** | REALTIME_OPTIONS, HISTORICAL_OPTIONS | | **Alpha Intelligence** | NEWS_SENTIMENT, EARNINGS_CALL_TRANSCRIPT, TOP_GAINERS_LOSERS, INSIDER_TRANSACTIONS, ANALYTICS_FIXED_WINDOW | | **Fundamentals** | OVERVIEW, ETF_PROFILE, INCOME_STATEMENT, BALANCE_SHEET, CASH_FLOW, EARNINGS, DIVIDENDS, SPLITS | | **Forex (FX)** | CURRENCY_EXCHANGE_RATE, FX_INTRADAY, FX_DAILY, FX_WEEKLY, FX_MONTHLY | | **Crypto** | CURRENCY_EXCHANGE_RATE, CRYPTO_INTRADAY, DIGITAL_CURRENCY_DAILY | | **Commodities** | GOLD (WTI spot), BRENT, NATURAL_GAS, COPPER, WHEAT, CORN, COFFEE, ALL_COMMODITIES | | **Economic Indicators** | REAL_GDP, TREASURY_YIELD, FEDERAL_FUNDS_RATE, CPI, INFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT, NONFARM_PAYROLL | | **Technical Indicators** | SMA, EMA, MACD, RSI, BBANDS, STOCH, ADX, ATR, OBV, VWAP, and 40+ more |

Common Parameters

| Parameter | Values | Notes | |-----------|--------|-------| | `outputsize` | `compact` / `full` | compact = last 100 points; full = 20+ years | | `datatype` | `json` / `csv` | Default: json | | `interval` | `1min`, `5min`, `15min`, `30min`, `60min`, `daily`, `weekly`, `monthly` | Depends on endpoint | | `adjusted` | `true` / `false` | Adjust for splits/dividends |

Rate Limits

• Free tier: 25 requests/day (as of 2026)
• Premium plans: higher limits, real-time data, intraday access
• HTTP 429 = rate limit exceeded
• Add delays between requests when processing multiple symbols

import time
# Add delay to avoid rate limits
time.sleep(0.5)  # 0.5s between requests on free tier

Error Handling

data = av_get("GLOBAL_QUOTE", symbol="AAPL")

# Check for API errors
if "Error Message" in data:
    raise ValueError(f"API Error: {data['Error Message']}")
if "Note" in data:
    print(f"Rate limit warning: {data['Note']}")
if "Information" in data:
    print(f"API info: {data['Information']}")

Reference Files

Load these for detailed endpoint documentation:

• **[time-series.md](references/time-series.md)** — Stock OHLCV data, quotes, bulk quotes, market status
• **[fundamentals.md](references/fundamentals.md)** — Company overview, financial statements, earnings, dividends, splits
• **[options.md](references/options.md)** — Realtime and historical options chain data
• **[intelligence.md](references/intelligence.md)** — News/sentiment, earnings transcripts, insider transactions, analytics
• **[forex-crypto.md](references/forex-crypto.md)** — Forex exchange rates and cryptocurrency prices
• **[commodities.md](references/commodities.md)** — Gold, silver, oil, natural gas, agricultural commodities
• **[economic-indicators.md](references/economic-indicators.md)** — GDP, CPI, interest rates, employment data
• **[technical-indicators.md](references/technical-indicators.md)** — 50+ technical analysis indicators (SMA, EMA, MACD, RSI, etc.)