ICYDK: I am profiling market data APIs as part of my partnership with Streamdata.io. It is a process I enjoy because it provides me with a number of interesting stories I can tell here and on API Evangelist. Many of the APIs I profile just frustrate me, but there are always the gems who are doing interesting things with their APIs and understand providing APIs as well as consuming APIs. One API that I’ve been profiling, and I am able to put to use in my work to build a gallery of real-time data APIs, was 1Forge.
1Forge provides dead simple APIs for accessing market data, and surprise(!) – you can sign up for a key, and begin making API calls within minutes. It might not sound like that big of a deal, but after going through 25+ APIs, I only have about 5 API keys. I’m working on an OpenAPI definition for 1Forge, so I can begin to poll, and stream the data they make available, including it in the Streamdata.io API gallery I’m building. However, as I was getting up and running with the API, I noticed their quota endpoint, which allows me to check my usage quote with the 1Forge API –something that I thought was story worthy. https://goo.gl/CKsdJQ #DataIntegration #ML
