Getting Started
1. What is Intrinio?
Intrinio is a financial data company on a mission to power fintech innovation by providing affordable, high-quality data to developers and engineers from fintech companies, large institutions, hedge funds, startups, and universities. The Intrinio platform consists of an application programming interface (API) supported by over 200 types of financial data feeds that can be easily integrated into applications, websites, widgets, algorithms, and other financial tools. More information can be found on: http://help.intrinio.com/en/articles/1457883-what-is-intrinio https://about.intrinio.com/about
2. Creating an Account
Using your @illinois.edu email address, create a free account on the Intrinio website below: https://intrinio.com/signup If you do not sign up using that email address, you will not receive access to your university subscription
This page will re-direct you to the following page where you can use the Illinois.edu email address to sign-up
3. My Account
Once you have successfully logged into your account and you can go to “My Account” on the top-right corner of the screen to get to know the platform. It will lead you the “My Account” page (picture attached below) where you can get
a. an “Overview” of the platform, b. Join the “Prophet Club”- Joining Prophet allows you access to high alpha-generating datasets for companies and institutions. It is a unique marketplace which is comprised of non-traditional, more alternative datasets and providers designed for hedge funds and institutions looking to gain alpha on mostly untapped and unknown datasets in the market. It is not geared towards individuals. To learn more, please visit their “Prophet page”. To join the Prophet Club, you need to fill out an application that would need to get approved by the Intrinio team. c. API Keys- These keys are required in order to access Intrinio data via API, Excel, or CSV Download. d. Usage- This page shows your API usage per data feed is shown below. The values represent API requests made during the timeframe. e. API Limits- You can see your API and Data-Feed Limits on this page. You can learn more about API request limits in their “Documentation.” We will talk about the Documentation page in detail later. f. Subscriptions- This page tells you about all your active subscriptions. Each subscription grants you access to a dataset or product on the Intrinio platform. g. Widgets- The information about the active widgets is mentioned here, if any. h. Support- This page comprises of the user community and help center. At the user community, you can post any questions and get help from the Intrinio users while the help center helps you by searching their knowledge base for answers to a variety of common questions related to our data, API, SDKs, and more. You can also raise tickets in case there are certain issues you need help with. i. Billing- gives you the details of the payment method. j. Info– mentions details about you account including your name, email address etc.
4. Exploring Pricing, Resources and Products
a. Pricing
Intrinio was built on the principle that everyone should have access to exactly the data they need when they need it. That’s why their pricing structure might be a little different than you’re used to (especially if you’re “used to” paying hundreds of thousands of dollars every year for data). Their customers aren’t all the same, so they don’t sell one-size-fits-all solutions. This section talks about the various pricing options available based on your requirements. Choose the enterprise, startup, or individual options below to learn about our pricing structure.
The “Enterprise” and “ Start-up” include Subscription Financial data (contains API Data Feeds), One-Time Financial Data (contains Bulk Downloads) and Custom Financial data (Built to order) while the “Individual” option consists of just the former two options.
b. Resources
The Resources tab is divided into three namely A. Reference B. Programs C. Help
A. Reference The “Reference” tab itself is divided into four. We will talk about each one in detail. i) Documentation The documentation can be viewed as API, Excel or csv. Each one has a different set of authentications and installation processes. This section also mentions the SDKs that you may need based on the programming language you decide to choose. Get more information about the API documentation here: https://docs.intrinio.com/documentation/api_v2/getting_started
Get more information about the Excel documentation here: https://docs.intrinio.com/documentation/excel/getting_started
Get more information about the csv documentation here: https://docs.intrinio.com/documentation/download/getting_started
Here is a snapshot of the Excel documentation:
You can choose to switch to another documentation by clicking on either of the links.
The Overview bar helps you get started including installation and a few examples based on the type of documentation you decide to choose as per your convenience.