alpaca_bars

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declared in 0.1.0

Historical US stock OHLCV bars with per-bar VWAP and trade count. Timeframes 1Min/5Min/15Min/1Hour/1Day; intraday bars include pre-market and after-hours sessions on the IEX feed. Each bar: {t, o, h, l, c, v, vwap, trades}. Use start/end ISO timestamps or a lookback shorthand like "2h", "5d". Multiple symbols comma-separated (max 20). BYOK Alpaca (free account). Example: alpaca_bars({ symbols: "AAPL", timeframe: "5Min", lookback: "1d", _apiKey: "key_id:secret_key" })

Parameters schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "symbols",
    "_apiKey"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "end": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "End time, ISO/RFC-3339 or date (default: now)"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Max bars per symbol to return, 1-1000 (default 100)"
    },
    "start": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Start time, ISO/RFC-3339 (e.g. \"2026-07-18T09:30:00-04:00\") or date \"2026-07-18\""
    },
    "_apiKey": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "REQUIRED: your Alpaca credentials as \"key_id:secret_key\" — both halves joined by a colon. Free at alpaca.markets (a paper-trading account is enough for market data)."
    },
    "symbols": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Comma-separated ticker symbols, e.g. \"AAPL,MSFT\" (max 20)"
    },
    "lookback": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Shorthand window ending now, instead of start/end: e.g. \"30m\", \"2h\", \"1d\", \"5d\", \"2w\""
    },
    "timeframe": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Bar size: \"1Min\", \"5Min\", \"15Min\", \"1Hour\", or \"1Day\" (default \"5Min\")"
    }
  }
}

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