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Alpha Vantage

Financial market data API for stocks, forex, crypto, technical indicators, fundamentals, and economic data.

Covers market and economic data for stocks, forex, crypto, technical indicators, and financial fundamentals.

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Example Use Cases

These are example ways Snow can use Alpha Vantage when building apps with you. This list is meant to show examples, not document every possible capability. Connecting an account does not make Snow run these automatically on its own.

ALUMINUM

Tool to fetch global aluminum prices. Use when you need monthly, quarterly, or annual LME aluminum price data.

Analytics Sliding Window

Tool to retrieve advanced analytics metrics with sliding window calculations for trend analysis. Use when you need to perform statistical analysis on stock price movements over time, such as calculating moving averages, standard deviations, variances, or correlations between multiple stocks. Ideal for technical analysis and identifying trends.

Balance Sheet

Tool to return annual and quarterly balance sheets for a company. Use when you need detailed fiscal statements for analysis. Numeric fields may be returned as strings or empty values; treat empty/missing fields as null, not zero, before performing calculations.

Brent Crude Oil Prices

Tool to fetch Brent crude oil prices. Use when you need daily, weekly, or monthly Brent price data.

Cash Flow

Tool to return annual and quarterly cash flow statements for a company. Use when you need to analyze cash movements.

Company Overview (Stocks Only)

Tool to retrieve company overview and fundamental data for individual company stocks. Note: This endpoint only works for stocks, not ETFs, mutual funds, or indices. Use after specifying a valid stock ticker symbol. Numeric fields (e.g., MarketCapitalization, SharesOutstanding, Beta, DividendYield, PERatio) are returned as strings and may be empty — treat empty/missing values as null, not zero. Fundamentals such as Beta, PERatio, and PayoutRatio may reflect different reporting periods across symbols; avoid naive cross-symbol aggregation without aligning periods. Check the as-of date in the response; SharesOutstanding and similar fields can lag corporate actions. Alpha Vantage enforces per-minute and per-day rate caps; throttle requests when processing bulk symbol lists.

Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Tool to fetch monthly and semiannual Consumer Price Index (CPI) data of the United States. Use when you need inflation metrics or CPI historical data.

COPPER

Tool to fetch global price of copper in monthly, quarterly, and annual intervals. Use when you need historical copper price series for analysis.

Corn

Tool to retrieve global price of corn in monthly, quarterly, and annual intervals. Use after verifying API key when you need historical Corn price data.

COTTON

Tool to retrieve global cotton prices in monthly, quarterly, and annual intervals. Use when you need historical cotton price data.