Direct Access to API

Why use this

The Alpha Vantage API responses vary from end point to end point. This client provides a top level consistent data structure so your code can be as clean as possible. However, you may want direct access to the alpha vantage api thus having minimal manipulation of your responses. You can achieve this by using the client.get_data_from_alpha_vantage(...).

This method does inject a few fields: successs, limit_reached, status_code and gives you exact response from the API. Here is a full example:

from alphavantage_api_client import AlphavantageClient
import logging

def sample_direct_access():
    client = AlphavantageClient()
    event = {
        "symbol" : "AAPL",
        "function" : "GLOBAL_QUOTE"
    } # EACH ATTRIBUTE IS EXACTLY SUPPORTED BY END POINTS

    response = client.get_data_from_alpha_vantage(event)
    print(response) # a dictionary with exact response from Alpha Vantage End point you requested


if __name__ == "__main__":
    sample_direct_access()

Produces the following output

{'success': True, 'limit_reached': False, 'status_code': 200, 'Global Quote': {'01. symbol': 'AAPL', '02. open': '186.8300', '03. high': '188.0500', '04. low': '185.2300', '05. price': '185.2700', '06. volume': '48088661', '07. latest trading day': '2023-06-26', '08. previous close': '186.6800', '09. change': '-1.4100', '10. change percent': '-0.7553%'}, 'symbol': 'AAPL'}

Process finished with exit code 0

You can see that this function injects a few fields into the response success, limit_reached, and status_code, so you can easily determine these conditions.