Cannot get Historical Bar data before 2020

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I am using alpaca.data.requests.StockBarsRequest to get the stock history of something:

import alpaca.data.requests
from alpaca.data.requests import StockBarsRequest
from datetime import datetime
from alpaca.data.historical import StockHistoricalDataClient
from alpaca.data.timeframe import TimeFrame

client = StockHistoricalDataClient(API_KEY, SECRET_KEY)
stock_bar_req = StockBarsRequest(symbol_or_symbols=["AAPL"], timeframe=TimeFrame.Day, limit = 100000,
start=datetime(2015, 7, 1), end = datetime(2022, 7, 1), feed="iex")
bars = client.get_stock_bars(stock_bar_req)

However, when I run this the earliest time I get starts in 2020. Why am I not getting data from before 2020?

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@Lama IEX bar data is only available from 2020. However, sip data is available from 2016. This will get 7+ years of daily bars

stock_bar_req = StockBarsRequest(symbol_or_symbols=["AAPL"], 
                                 timeframe=TimeFrame.Day, 
                                 limit = 100000,
                                 start=datetime(2015, 7, 1), 
                                 end = datetime(2022, 7, 1), 
                                 feed="sip")

In general, one should always use feed='sip'. That will give accurate full market data. The IEX data is really provided just for testing.

3

Thanks for the info. Do you know where in the docs it says this? I was unable to find which feed has what time range of data available.

Also Is it possible to get data from 20+ years ago, or do I need to use something else?
Thanks