OpenBB Blows My Mind
So I was researching for ways to get a company’s historical financials data because I hate clicking through pages of shitty UI and downloading files and all that when all I need is a couple of numbers - when I stumbled upon this open source project called OpenBB. To be fair, this wasn’t the first thing that came up in my endeavour. Basically, I want to be able to very quickly get the historical ratios, balance sheet, and income statement of a company, ideally through a light weight interface like the command line. Initially I thought I was going to use a couple of APIs and then cleaning the data through jq or something similar (which is still possible), and that led me to APIs like FinancialModelingPrep and EODHD. EODHD’s response design is more like a ‘bulk export’ approach, where with one call you get every single historical data of a company, whereas FMP’s responses are more streamlined and tailored to a specific need. The only thing is, with the free version, I could only get 5 years of historical data, whereas I need the data of way more years, so I was considering upgrading. Before commiting to it, I decided to look around to see if there are any alternatives to this, either in terms of workflow or in terms of data. ...