# Real-Time & Historical Financial API Articles

> 7 articles on Market Data API. Tutorials, explainers and worked examples from Market Data for traders and developers.

Source: https://www.marketdata.app/topics/api/

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# Market Data API

Learn about the versatility and power of our financial APIs, offering developers and traders alike insights into leveraging real-time and historical market data across stocks, options, indices, and more. It includes detailed documentation, usage examples, and tips on integrating our API into various applications and platforms, aimed at optimizing data retrieval and analysis.

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How To Use The Mutual Fund API

Learn by example and get started with the mutual fund api. Get candlestick and pricing data going back decades.

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How To Use The Free Stock Market API: A Guided Tour of our Swagger UI

Finally, a free stock market API without scraping or proxies. Learn how to get stock pricing data, both current and historical, using swagger.

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How To Use The Stock Market Holidays API

Use the stock market holidays API to get the open or closed status for any date in the past, present or future.

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How To Use The Historical Stock Data API

Learn by example and get started with the historical stock data api. Both daily and intraday data is available going back decades.

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How To Use the Stock Market API — With Examples!

Get real-time and historical market data from the stock market api. Learn quickly with easy to use examples that work right from your browser.

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How To Use The Option Data API — With Examples!

The Option Data API allows you to easily get a real-time or historical option quote for stock, ETF, or index options.

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How To Use The Option Chain API — With Examples!

The Option Chain API allows for ample sorting & filtering during each request, making it easy to get exactly the data you need.

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