TradingView API: What Exists and What Doesn’t
Looking for the TradingView API? TradingView doesn’t offer a public market data API, but it does have free widgets, open-source Lightweight Charts, licensed charting libraries, a broker API and alert webhooks. Here’s what each does and which you need.
Does TradingView have an API?
Not in the way most people mean. TradingView’s own developer FAQ says: “We don’t have an API that gives access to data.” You can’t pull TradingView’s prices, indicators or account data into your own program through an official API. What TradingView does offer developers is a set of tools for showing charts, connecting brokers and sending alerts out:
1. Free widgets
Copy-and-paste embeds for your website: charts, tickers and tapes, watchlists, symbol info, technical analysis, fundamentals, news, heatmaps, a screener and the economic calendar. They’re free with TradingView branding.
- They only show data TradingView provides; you can’t feed your own data in.
- Stock data in widgets is delayed (exchanges charge websites for real-time data); forex and crypto are real-time.
- A paid TradingView plan doesn’t change the data in widgets.
2. Charting libraries
| Library | Who it’s for | Data |
|---|---|---|
| Lightweight Charts | Anyone. Free and open source (Apache 2.0), about 35 KB, on GitHub. | You supply it, including streaming updates. |
| Advanced Charts (Charting Library) | Companies building public web projects; free with TradingView attribution. Not for personal or private use, and no source code is provided. | Not included: you connect your own feed through its Datafeed API. |
| Trading Platform | Brokers and companies adding trading: Advanced Charts plus order entry, account manager and depth of market, connected to the broker’s back end. | Not included. |
3. REST API for brokers
This lets a broker connect its systems to TradingView so its clients can trade from TradingView charts. The broker builds the endpoints for orders, positions and its own price data. It isn’t a way for individuals to get data; TradingView’s advice to users who want a broker added is to ask that broker to integrate.
4. Alert webhooks: TradingView → your code
The closest thing to an API most traders need. When an alert fires, TradingView can send an HTTP POST with your alert message to any URL, so your bot, spreadsheet or chat channel can act on it.
- If the message is valid JSON it’s sent as
application/json; otherwise as text. - You need two-factor authentication on, only ports 80 and 443 work, and your server must reply within 3 seconds.
- Build the message with our Alert Message & Webhook JSON Builder, which also lists every placeholder.
5. Pine Script
TradingView’s own language for indicators and strategies runs on TradingView’s servers. It can request other symbols and timeframes, financial and economic data inside TradingView, and even data from a GitHub repository you maintain (request.seed()), but it isn’t a general-purpose API for getting data out. Colour codes for your scripts: Pine Script colors.
Which one do you need?
- Show a chart on your website: a free widget, or Lightweight Charts with your own data.
- Build a charting product for a company: Advanced Charts or Trading Platform.
- Automate trades from your TradingView strategy: alerts with webhooks.
- Get historical or live prices into code: TradingView doesn’t offer this; use your broker’s or exchange’s API, or a market-data provider.
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