Alpaca API simple 5 min historical bar request returning null

I must be making very simple mistake which I haven't been able to figure out for hours. I am referencing Alpaca API Doc and trying to follow. The code is shown below trying to get the 5 min historical bar on the TSLA as the test purposes which I failed. See below code.

import config, requests, json # QUOTE_URL = ' # LATESTBAR_URL = ' BARS_URL = ' timeframe = '?timeframe=5Min' BARS_URL = BARS_URL+timeframe # r = requests.get(QUOTE_URL, headers=config.HEADERS) # r2 = requests.get(LATESTBAR_URL, headers=config.HEADERS) r3 = requests.get(BARS_URL, headers=config.HEADERS) print(json.dumps(r3.json(), indent=4)) 

The result I get is shown below:

{ "bars": null, "symbol": "TSLA", "next_page_token": null } 

1 Answer

Here is my solution which helped me to get the OHLC data about any symbol from Alpaca API:

# imports import alpaca_trade_api as tradeapi from alpaca.data import TimeFrame # create Alpaca API object with the given credentials api = tradeapi.REST(key_id="YOUR_API_KEY", secret_key="YOUR_SECRET_KEY", base_url=') # Call the API to get OHLC TSLA data adn store it in a dataframe data = api.get_bars( symbol='TSLA', timeframe=TimeFrame.Minute ).df # Get some historical data for TSLA historical_data = api.get_bars( symbol='TSLA', #any symbol is acceptable if it can be found in Alpaca API timeframe=TimeFrame.Minute, start="2018-01-01T00:00:00-00:00", end="2018-02-01T00:00:00-00:00" ).df print(data) print(historical_data) 

The data will be stored in a Dataframe, of course, if you want to get the results in a raw format just leave the ".df"

I hope it will help!