Polygon API Overview

Learn the various endpoints offered by Polygon API.

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What is Polygon?

Polygon provides developers with real-time financial market data APIs, which help make trading prediction algorithms or display historical data about different securities. The securities currently supported by Polygon include stocks, options contracts, forex, and cryptocurrency.

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Polygon API overview

Polygon provides various APIs to gather data about securities. Some of the important tasks we can carry out using Polygon APIs are:

  • Getting details and recent news about various securities.

  • Getting data about the previous opening and closing prices of securities.

  • Getting the moving average of various securities.

  • Getting the status of different marketplaces.

Available endpoints

Following are the endpointsAn API endpoint is the end of a channel used for communication between two software programs. available in Polygon. We’ll learn how to use these endpoints in detail in this course.

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Polygon API endpoints
Polygon API endpoints