{"id":34336,"date":"2025-06-14T03:27:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T01:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/datasets-free-sql-ready-alternative-to-yfinance-no-rate-limits-high-performance\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T03:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T01:27:51","slug":"datasets-free-sql-ready-alternative-to-yfinance-no-rate-limits-high-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/datasets-free-sql-ready-alternative-to-yfinance-no-rate-limits-high-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Datasets: Free, SQL-Ready Alternative To Yfinance (No Rate Limits, High Performance)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hey everyone \ud83d\udc4b<\/p>\n<p>I just open-sourced a project that some of you might find useful: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/defeat-beta\/defeatbeta-api\">defeatbeta-api<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a Python-native API for accessing market data <strong>without rate limits<\/strong>, powered by Hugging Face and DuckDB.<\/p>\n<h1>Why it might help you:<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2705 <strong>No rate limits<\/strong> \u2013 data is hosted on Hugging Face, so you don&#8217;t need to worry about throttling like with <code>yfinance<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>\u26a1 <strong>Sub-second query speed<\/strong> using DuckDB + local caching (<code>cache_httpfs<\/code>)<\/li>\n<li>\ud83e\udde0 <strong>SQL support out of the b<\/strong>ox \u2013 great for quick filtering, joining, aggregating.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udcca Includes extended financial metrics like <strong>earnings call transcripts<\/strong>, and even <strong>stock news<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Ideal for:<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Backtesting strategies with large-scale historical data<\/li>\n<li>Quant research that requires flexibility + performance<\/li>\n<li>Anyone frustrated with <code>yfinance<\/code> rate limits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s not real-time (data is updated weekly), so it\u2019s best for <strong>research<\/strong>, not intraday signals.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 GitHub: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/defeat-beta\/defeatbeta-api\">https:\/\/github.com\/defeat-beta\/defeatbeta-api<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy to hear your thoughts or suggestions!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Mammoth-Sorbet7889\"> \/u\/Mammoth-Sorbet7889 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1lawo8s\/datasets_free_sqlready_alternative_to_yfinance_no\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1lawo8s\/datasets_free_sqlready_alternative_to_yfinance_no\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-34336 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='34336' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-34336 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-34336 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone \ud83d\udc4b I just open-sourced a project that some of you might find useful: defeatbeta-api It\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}