What the API does and who it is for

Real-Time Finance Data, published by OpenWeb Ninja, acts as a structured REST layer on top of Google Finance and a handful of supplementary sources. Instead of scraping HTML yourself or navigating Google's unofficial endpoints, you get clean JSON responses for stocks, indices, mutual funds, futures, currencies, and crypto — all in a single API key.

The target audience is broad: a solo developer building a personal portfolio tracker, a fintech startup wiring up an investment dashboard, or a quant researcher pulling historical series for backtesting all have endpoints that fit. Because the underlying data comes from Google Finance, the coverage is global — international exchanges, forex pairs, and major crypto assets are all first-class citizens, not afterthoughts.

Endpoint walkthrough

The API exposes 12 distinct resource types, many of which have secondary source variants (Google Finance, Source #2, and a Yahoo Finance variant). Here is what each core endpoint returns:

Search and discovery

GET /search accepts a free-form query or a ticker symbol and returns ranked matches across types: stock, index, mutual_fund, currency, and futures. This is the natural entry point when you don't already have a canonical symbol — a user types