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I Got Tired of Paying $99/mo for Options Data — So I Built My Own API tags: python, api, finance, showdev
I build algorithmic trading bots as a side project. Nothing fancy — just small strategies that trade US equity options automatically.
The problem I kept running into wasn't the strategy logic. It was the data.
Every time I wanted to pull real-time options chains, Greeks, or IV, I had two options:
Pay $99+/mo to a data provider
Scrape something I probably shouldn't be scraping
Neither felt right for a hobbyist project. So I built Market-Options — a simple REST API for US equit...
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