Get last X minutes from end date time

Dear Alpaca team and community,

I’m looking for a way to use the API to get the last X minute bars from a point in time. For instance, the last 5 minutes from now. In the API one can provide a start date, an end date and a limit. However, the results is from start date time to start date time + limit*TimeFrameUnit, and I would like to get them from end date time - limit*TimeFrameUnit to end date time. The main reason is that it is quite difficult to compute the correct date in the past of the market for a symbol (like now - 200 minutes, if now is 9:30am utc-4) due to pre-market, low trading activity, trading being alted, and so on. I can always over dimension the request and then do a tailing like df.tail(mylimit) but I find it quite inefficient especially if you do it over a large number of symbols. So far, I take the previous market day from the calendar endpoint and compute the difference from now jumping back to the previous market day if I cross over the market open time of the current day.

Did I miss an option in the API? is there a nice way to obtain this functionality?
Has anyone built such a functionality?

Thanks!

Example of my current solution:

>>> now = datetime.datetime(2022,8,31,9,30,0,0)
>>> get_market_datetime_x_minutes_ago(now, minutes=200)
datetime.datetime(2022, 8, 30, 12, 40)
>>> df = api.get_bars(
                      ['BBBY'], 
                      TimeFrame.Minute, 
                      start='2022-08-30T16:40:00.0Z', 
                      end='2022-08-31T13:30:00.0Z',
                      feed='sip', 
                      limit=10000).df
>>> df.info()
<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
DatetimeIndex: 741 entries, 2022-08-30 16:40:00+00:00 to 2022-08-31 13:30:00+00:00
Data columns (total 8 columns):
 #   Column       Non-Null Count  Dtype
---  ------       --------------  -----
 0   open         741 non-null    float64
 1   high         741 non-null    float64
 2   low          741 non-null    float64
 3   close        741 non-null    float64
 4   volume       741 non-null    int64
 5   trade_count  741 non-null    int64
 6   vwap         741 non-null    float64
 7   symbol       741 non-null    object
dtypes: float64(5), int64(2), object(1)
memory usage: 52.1+ KB

I wanted 200 pips but needed to retrieve 741 instead.