Can't get BTC Historical data?

Alpaca Market Data
1

Hello,

I’m totally new to API’s and coding and I’m struggling to understand the documentation page. I’m trying to import BTC bar data from the start of 2018 - end of 2022. But when I run my crypto bars request I’m only getting data from 2020-04-08 onward.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’m using python in a jupyter notebook. This is what I have:

client = CryptoHistoricalDataClient(alpaca_api_key, alpaca_secret_key)

request_params = CryptoBarsRequest(
                        symbol_or_symbols=["BTC/USD"],
                        timeframe=TimeFrame.Day,
                        start="2018-01-01",
                        end="2022-01-01",
                        limit='10000',
                 )

bars = client.get_crypto_bars(request_params)

# convert to dataframe
bars_df = bars.df

# access bars as list - important to note that you must access by symbol key
# even for a single symbol request - models are agnostic to number of symbols
#bars["BTC/USD"]
bars_df
2

Hi @gibby,

It appears that our alpaca_py SDK defaults to the newer version of our API (v1beta2) that does not support historical data for more than 2 years. We are working on a fix right now.

An immediate solution for you is to switch to alpaca-trade-API-python (GitHub - alpacahq/alpaca-trade-api-python: Python client for Alpaca's trade API) for now, as this is set up for backward compatibility of API versioning (v1beta1).

Thanks,
Kavin, PM @ Alpaca

3

Any fix for this? Im getting garbage data from alpaca-py…

request_params = CryptoBarsRequest(
    symbol_or_symbols=["BTC/USD"],
    timeframe=TimeFrame.Day,
    start="2020-01-01",
    end="2020-12-31"
)

try:
    bars = client.get_crypto_bars(request_params)
    df = bars.df.xs('BTC/USD').copy()
except Exception as e:
    print(e)

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