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Data scraping has become an integral part of doing business online, but it can live in a legal and ethical gray area. If you’re thinking about scraping financial data for personal or business use, here’s what you need to know about what’s accepted, what’s discouraged, and what’s illegal.

Welcome to part I of the Quant Quickstart series from Analyzing Alpha's Leo Smigel. The goal of this article is to enable traders to start backtesting their strategies as quickly as possible. We’ll demonstrate an easy-to-follow backtest trading Apple using Intrinio data and Backtrader.

Becoming an investor is a great way to financial freedom. But only if you’re making the right investments. There’s great potential in this field, especially with all of the markets you can get into. In this guide, we will cover the essential tips every beginner investor should know.

Last week, thousands of fintech developers scrambled to find a Yahoo Finance API replacement. Individual investors, startups, and even fortune 500 companies had taken advantage of this free service to obtain financial data like stock prices for their websites, intranets, and applications.

Intrinio’s mission is to make financial data accessible and a great value for all types of users. This article explains why we believe value and accessibility are critical and the unique features of the Intrinio platform that make it easy to get the data you need.

If you’re a developer using Intrinio’s API, you will have noticed that for many data types, the results are limited to a specific number per page. What are API paging limits? What are Intrinio’s paging limits? How can you write code to get all of the pages? This article explains.

When you’re managing a portfolio of stocks, it’s important to stay up to date with company news. Easy access to these updates helps you keep a pulse on the company and its performance. This article explains how to pull the latest news on the stocks you follow via the Intrinio News API.

If you want to find out what Tesla’s market capitalization was over the past ten years, and you want to access that data in Excel, it seems like it should be cheap and straightforward to do so. Thanks to a technology called XBRL, this has become easier over the past several years.

The stock screener API returns a list of stocks that meet predefined conditions. The ticker and value for each parameter are returned and can be called in almost any language. This article explains what Intrinio’s stock screener API is and how to get access, and provides sample API calls.

Intrinio's technology leverages a data standard called XBRL. XBRL, combined with the Intrinio standardization technology, enables us to rapidly and accurately source, standardize, normalize, and distribute financial data directly from regulatory bodies like the SEC and the FDIC.