Market Data Go SDK v2

Access Financial Data with Ease

This is the official Go SDK for Market Data. It provides developers with a powerful, easy-to-use interface to obtain real-time and historical financial data. Ideal for building financial applications, trading bots, and investment strategies.

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Features

• Idiomatic Go - Follows Go best practices and conventions (service structs, context first, (T, *Response, error) returns — like google/go-github)
• Compile-time parameter safety - Mutually-exclusive parameters are unrepresentable: illegal combinations (e.g. a date range plus a countback) do not compile. See ADR-017.
• Context Support - All methods accept context.Context for cancellation
• Functional Options - Clean, extensible configuration with sealed-union values
• Automatic Retries - Exponential backoff for transient errors
• Rate Limit Tracking - Proactive rate limit management
• Hardened - Untrusted symbols safely encoded; token never sent in cleartext or leaked; response-size bounded; govulncheck/staticcheck clean
• Type Safety - Strongly typed responses

Installation

go get github.com/MarketDataApp/sdk-go/v2

Requires Go 1.22 or later.

Quick Start

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "log"

    "github.com/MarketDataApp/sdk-go/v2/marketdata"
    "github.com/MarketDataApp/sdk-go/v2/marketdata/stocks"
)

func main() {
    // Create client (reads MARKETDATA_TOKEN from environment)
    client, err := marketdata.NewClient()
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    ctx := context.Background()

    // Get a stock quote
    quote, _, err := client.Stocks.Quote(ctx, "AAPL")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    fmt.Printf("AAPL: $%.2f\n", quote.Last)

    // Get multiple quotes
    quotes, _, err := client.Stocks.Quotes(ctx, []string{"AAPL", "MSFT", "GOOG"})
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    for _, q := range quotes {
        fmt.Printf("%s: $%.2f (%.2f%%)\n", q.Symbol, q.Last, q.ChangePercent)
    }

    // Get historical candles
    candles, _, err := client.Stocks.Candles(ctx, "AAPL",
        stocks.WithResolution(stocks.ResolutionDaily),
        stocks.WithCandleWindow(stocks.LastN(30)),
    )
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    for _, c := range candles {
        fmt.Printf("%s: O=%.2f C=%.2f\n", c.Time.Format("2006-01-02"), c.Open, c.Close)
    }
}

Configuration

Environment Variables

Variable	Description	Default
MARKETDATA_TOKEN	API authentication token	(required)
MARKETDATA_BASE_URL	API base URL	https://api.marketdata.app
MARKETDATA_API_VERSION	API version path segment	v1
MARKETDATA_MODE	Default data mode (live/cached/delayed)	(unset)
MARKETDATA_DATE_FORMAT	Default dateformat for responses	(unset)
MARKETDATA_COLUMNS	Default columns selection	(unset)
MARKETDATA_ADD_HEADERS	Add a header row to CSV output (true/false)	(unset)
MARKETDATA_USE_HUMAN_READABLE	Return human-readable values (true/false)	(unset)
MARKETDATA_LOGGING_LEVEL	Log level (e.g. debug, info)	(unset)

All variables are also loaded from a project-level .env file if present (real environment variables win over .env; client options like WithBaseURL/WithEnvironment win over both, and method parameters win over everything — the standard configuration cascade).

Client Options

client, err := marketdata.NewClient(
    marketdata.WithToken("your-token"),
    marketdata.WithMaxRetries(3),
    marketdata.WithDebug(true),
    marketdata.WithHTTPClient(customHTTPClient),
)

Other options include WithBaseURL, WithEnvironment, WithLogger, WithoutStartupValidation, and the universal-parameter options (WithDateFormat, WithColumns, WithAddHeaders, WithHumanReadable, WithMode, WithMaxAge, WithLimit, WithOffset). Request timeouts are fixed (99s request, 2s connect) and are not configurable.

API Reference

Stocks

// Single quote
quote, _, err := client.Stocks.Quote(ctx, "AAPL")

// Multiple quotes
quotes, _, err := client.Stocks.Quotes(ctx, []string{"AAPL", "MSFT"})

// With 52-week high/low
quote, _, err := client.Stocks.Quote(ctx, "AAPL", stocks.WithFiftyTwoWeek(true))

// Historical candles
candles, _, err := client.Stocks.Candles(ctx, "AAPL",
    stocks.WithResolution(stocks.ResolutionDaily),
    stocks.WithCandleWindow(stocks.Between(startDate, endDate)),
)

Options

Mutually-exclusive filters are single sealed-union values, so incompatible combinations cannot be written:

// Chain: pick one strike selector, one expiry selector, one (optional) as-of date.
chain, _, err := client.Options.Chain(ctx, "AAPL",
    options.WithExpiry(options.OnExpiration(exp)),  // or InDTE(30) / InMonth(12) / InMonthOfYear(12, 2026)
    options.WithStrike(options.StrikeRange(140, 160)), // or Strike(150) / MinStrike / MaxStrike / StrikeExpr / ByDelta
    options.WithSide(options.SideCall),
)

// Without an expiry filter the API returns only the front-month expiration.
// AllExpirations() is what asks for the whole chain (and costs accordingly).
full, _, err := client.Options.Chain(ctx, "AAPL",
    options.WithExpiry(options.AllExpirations()),
)

// Strike and delta also take lists — both legs of a spread in one request.
spread, _, err := client.Options.Chain(ctx, "AAPL",
    options.WithStrike(options.Strikes(300, 310)), // or ByDeltas(0.16, 0.30)
)

// QuotesBySymbol keeps one entry per symbol, nil where the API had no data;
// Quotes just omits them, so its slice can be shorter than the input.
quotes, _, err := client.Options.QuotesBySymbol(ctx, []string{"AAPL260821C00300000", "AAPL260821P00300000"})

// A historical window selects one quote per day. Quote returns the first;
// QuoteHistory returns them all.
series, _, err := client.Options.QuoteHistory(ctx, "AAPL260821C00300000",
    options.WithOptionQuoteWindow(options.QuoteRange(from, to)), // or QuoteLastNUntil(5, to)
)

// A historical single-contract quote: one date, or one range — never both.
q, _, err := client.Options.Quote(ctx, "AAPL260717C00150000",
    options.WithOptionQuoteWindow(options.QuoteOnDate(day)), // or QuoteRange(from, to)
)

Compile-time exclusivity

The redesign makes the API's mutually-exclusive parameters impossible to combine. For example, these do not compile — the symbols do not exist / the types do not match:

// date range AND countback — no such combination is expressible:
client.Stocks.Candles(ctx, "AAPL", stocks.WithFrom(a), stocks.WithCountback(5)) // ✗ won't build

// a Status-only date on the ranged history method:
client.Markets.StatusHistory(ctx, markets.WithDate(day)) // ✗ won't build

The date range is one value instead:

client.Stocks.Candles(ctx, "AAPL", stocks.WithCandleWindow(stocks.LastN(5))) // ✓

The negative-compile test suite (internal/negcompile) proves every illegal combination fails to build and every legal one compiles.

Resolutions

Resolution	Constant
1 minute	stocks.Resolution1Min
3 minutes	stocks.Resolution3Min
5 minutes	stocks.Resolution5Min
15 minutes	stocks.Resolution15Min
30 minutes	stocks.Resolution30Min
45 minutes	stocks.Resolution45Min
1 hour	stocks.Resolution1Hour
2 hours	stocks.Resolution2Hour
4 hours	stocks.Resolution4Hour
Daily	stocks.ResolutionDaily
Weekly	stocks.ResolutionWeekly
Monthly	stocks.ResolutionMonthly
Yearly	stocks.ResolutionYearly

Funds and market-status history use their own package's resolution/window constants; see the documentation.

Error Handling

quote, _, err := client.Stocks.Quote(ctx, "INVALID")
if err != nil {
    // Check for specific error types
    var apiErr *marketdata.APIError
    if errors.As(err, &apiErr) {
        fmt.Printf("API error: %s\n", apiErr.Message)
    }

    // Check for rate limiting
    if errors.Is(err, marketdata.ErrRateLimited) {
        fmt.Println("Rate limited!")
    }

    // Check if error is retryable
    var sdkErr marketdata.Error
    if errors.As(err, &sdkErr) && sdkErr.Retryable() {
        // Could retry the request
    }
}

String Conversion

Every response type implements fmt.Stringer with a readable one-line summary, so values can be printed directly:

quote, _, _ := client.Stocks.Quote(ctx, "AAPL")
fmt.Println(quote)
// AAPL Last: $302.77 Bid: 302.75 (2) Ask: 302.79 (3) Mid: 302.77 Chg: -0.65 (-0.21%) Vol: 41203110 Updated: 2026-08-04 10:15:04

status, _, _ := client.Markets.Status(ctx)
fmt.Println(status)
// 2026-08-04 open Open: true

Percentage fields print multiplied by 100 (the API sends fractions); nil pointer fields print as n/a.

Rate Limits

// Check current rate limits
limits := client.RateLimits()
fmt.Printf("Used: %d/%d\n", limits.Consumed, limits.Limit)
fmt.Printf("Remaining: %d\n", limits.Remaining)

Examples

The examples/ directory contains nine runnable programs — from a copy-paste quick start to full-screen terminal apps (stockterm, optionterm) that between them exercise every SDK method. See the examples index for what each one shows and how to run it.

Architecture

The SDK follows idiomatic Go patterns:

• Functional Options for configuration
• Context-First method signatures
• Interface-Based design for testability
• Modular Resources for organization

See the Architecture Decision Records for detailed design decisions.

Migration from v1

If you're migrating from the v1 SDK, see the Migration Guide.

Key changes:

• No global singleton - create clients explicitly
• No init() side effects
• Context required for all API methods
• Functional options instead of method chaining
• Structured error types

License

MIT - See LICENSE for details.

Support

• Documentation
• API Reference
• GitHub Issues