StockData
StockData provides real-time and historical market data through a single REST API, including stock quotes, intraday and end-of-day pricing, dividends, stock splits, and global financial news enriched with entity recognition and sentiment analysis. The StockData connector lets you pull this market and news data into Nexla on a schedule.
Power end-to-end data operations for your StockData API with Nexla. Our bi-directional StockData connector is purpose-built for StockData, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to StockData or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your StockData workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.
Features
Type: API
- Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
- Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
- API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
- Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs
Prerequisites
StockData authenticates every API request with an API token that is tied to your StockData account. Before creating a StockData credential in Nexla, obtain this token:
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Go to stockdata.org and sign up for an account. A free tier is available.
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Sign in and open your account dashboard.
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Locate your API token on the dashboard and copy it. Keep this token confidential, as it grants access to your StockData account, quota, and usage.
For details on available plans, rate limits, and the data each endpoint returns, see the StockData API documentation.
Authenticate
Credentials required
| Field | Required | Secret | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| API Key | Yes | Yes | API key. |
Create a credential in Nexla
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After selecting the data source type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.
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Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.
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Enter your StockData API token in the API Key field. This is the token you copied from your StockData dashboard in Prerequisites. Nexla uses it to authenticate requests to the StockData API, so it must be kept confidential.
If your API token is compromised, generate a new one from your StockData dashboard and update the credential in Nexla.
For more information about authentication and the data available from each endpoint, see the StockData API documentation.
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Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source creation.
Use as a data source
To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the StockData connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to StockData, and click Next; or, create a new StockData credential for use in this flow.
Endpoint templates
Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common StockData endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.
Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.
Manual configuration
StockData data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid StockData API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom request parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.
Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new StockData data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.