{"id":41372,"date":"2026-06-13T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/best-free-source-for-unusual-whales-style-data-options-flow-insiders-hedge-funds-politicians-near-real-time\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T11:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:27:13","slug":"best-free-source-for-unusual-whales-style-data-options-flow-insiders-hedge-funds-politicians-near-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/best-free-source-for-unusual-whales-style-data-options-flow-insiders-hedge-funds-politicians-near-real-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Free Source For Unusual Whales\u2013style Data? (options Flow, Insiders, Hedge Funds, Politicians, Near Real-time)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I\u2019m trying to build my own research \/ signal pipeline and I\u2019m looking for something closer to Unusual Whales but without paying for a full subscription.<\/p>\n<p>What I want is less dashboards and more raw data access.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally:<\/p>\n<p>Options \/ unusual flow \/ F&amp;O activity<\/p>\n<p>Insider trades<\/p>\n<p>Politician disclosures<\/p>\n<p>Hedge fund \/ 13F data<\/p>\n<p>Dark pool \/ institutional signals<\/p>\n<p>Near real-time or at least updated frequently<\/p>\n<p>API \/ CSV \/ exportable data<\/p>\n<p>Free or generous free tier<\/p>\n<p>Right now I\u2019m testing Finnhub and Tastytrade API but they don\u2019t feel complete enough for this use case.Q<\/p>\n<p>My goal is basically:<\/p>\n<p>Raw data \u2192 Claude \/ custom filtering \u2192 synthesis \u2192 useful signals<\/p>\n<p>Curious what people here actually use to assemble this stack. Open datasets, APIs, GitHub repos, hidden gems, anything.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/AVFrinkler\"> \/u\/AVFrinkler <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1u4mccr\/best_free_source_for_unusual_whalesstyle_data\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1u4mccr\/best_free_source_for_unusual_whalesstyle_data\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41372 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41372' data-nonce='72e055e984' 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-41372 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41372 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m trying to build my own research \/ signal pipeline and I\u2019m looking for something closer to&#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-41372","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\/41372","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=41372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}