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API Documentation

The ORATS API is organized around REST. Our API is designed to have predictable, resource-oriented URLs and to use HTTP response codes to indicate API success and errors. You can use our API to access options data in our database.

Getting started

To get started, purchase an API token through our website, then go to your dashboard to view your token and interact with the endpoints. To access live data, you'll need to sign the agreements here.

Guides

Authentication

Learn how to authenticate your API requests and connect to live data.

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Errors

Read about the different types of errors returned by the API.

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Core Research

Study our methods behind developing hundreds of proprietary indicators.

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Definitions

Explore verbose definitions for all of our fields across all endpoints.

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Endpoints

Delayed Data API

Get delayed and historical end-of-day options data back to 2007 augmented with hundreds of proprietary indicators.

Live Data API

Access live data for the Data API, calculated in real-time with less than 10 seconds of market delay.

Delayed Intraday API

Get delayed and historical one-minute options data back to August 2020 for over 5,000 symbols.

Live Intraday API

Access live data for the Intraday API, calculated in real-time with less than 10 seconds of market delay.

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