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# [Pros and Cons of Stock APIs](https://henryeleonu.com/pros-and-cons-of-stock-apis?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Real-time and historic stock or other financial datasets are very essential for developing financial applications. Developers and Data Engineers typically want to extract data from Application Programming Interfaces (API) from within their code. Ther...

Dec 15, 2022 · 3 min read · henryeleonu.com  
Updated Dec 23, 2022  
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-   [#stocks-api](https://hashnode.com/tag/stocks-api)
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-   [#financila-api](https://hashnode.com/tag/financila-api)

## Written by

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[Matt Dunn](https://hashnode.com/@MattDunn)

[Dec 15, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/pros-and-cons-of-stock-apis/639adf0261f0212fc651c185/comment/639afd950517875138ea7c29)

This is great Henry, really gives a good high level understanding of the options available.