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Market Data PHP SDK v1.1

Access Financial Data with Ease

This is the official PHP SDK for Market Data. It provides developers with a powerful, easy-to-use interface to obtain real-time and historical financial data. Ideal for building financial applications, trading bots, and investment strategies.

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Features

Real-time Stock Data: Prices, quotes, candles (OHLCV), earnings, and news
Options Trading Data: Complete options chains, expirations, strikes, quotes, and lookup
Mutual Funds: Historical candles and pricing data
Market Status: Real-time market open/closed status for multiple countries
Multiple Output Formats: JSON, CSV, or HTML formats
Built-in Retry Logic: Automatic retry with exponential backoff for reliable data fetching
Rate Limit Tracking: Automatic rate limit monitoring with easy access via $client->rate_limits
Type-Safe: Full type hints and strict typing (PHP 8.2+)
Zero Config: Works out of the box with sensible defaults

Requirements

PHP >= 8.2

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require MarketDataApp/sdk-php

Configuration

The SDK requires a MarketData authentication token. You can provide it in two ways:

Option 1: Environment variable (recommended)

Create a .env file in the project root:

MARKETDATA_TOKEN=your_token_here

Or set it as an environment variable:

export MARKETDATA_TOKEN=your_token_here

Option 2: Pass token directly

You can pass the token when creating a client instance:

$client = new MarketDataApp\Client('your_token_here');

Note: If you provide a token explicitly, it will take precedence over environment variables.

Unsupported API features

The SDK intentionally does not support certain REST API options. These are design decisions, not oversights.

token query parameter — The REST API may accept token as a query parameter. The SDK does not and will not support this. Authentication is sent only via the Authorization: Bearer header. This keeps tokens out of URLs (and thus out of logs, caches, and referrers) and centralizes auth in one place.
limit and offset — The REST API supports limit and offset for pagination. The SDK does not and will not support these. The SDK uses concurrent parallel requests instead to fetch data in bulk, so limit/offset-style pagination is not part of the design.

Usage

// Token will be automatically obtained from MARKETDATA_TOKEN environment variable or .env file
$client = new MarketDataApp\Client();

// Or provide the token explicitly
$client = new MarketDataApp\Client('your_api_token');

// Stocks
$candles = $client->stocks->candles('AAPL');
$bulk_candles = $client->stocks->bulkCandles(['AAPL', 'MSFT']);
$quote = $client->stocks->quote('AAPL');
$quotes = $client->stocks->quotes(['AAPL', 'MSFT']);
$earnings = $client->stocks->earnings(symbol: 'AAPL', from: '2023-01-01');
$news = $client->stocks->news(symbol: 'AAPL', from: '2023-01-01');

// Markets
$status = $client->markets->status(date: '2023-01-01');

// Mutual Funds
$candles = $client->mutual_funds->candles(
    symbol: 'VFINX',
    from: '2022-09-01',
    to: '2022-09-05',
    resolution: 'D'
);

// Options
$expirations = $client->options->expirations('AAPL');
$lookup = $client->options->lookup('AAPL 7/28/23 $200 Call');
$strikes = $client->options->strikes(
    symbol: 'AAPL',
    expiration: '2023-01-20',
    date: '2023-01-03',
);
$option_chain = $client->options->option_chain(
    symbol: 'AAPL',
    expiration: '2028-12-15',
    side: Side::CALL,
);
$quotes = $client->options->quotes('AAPL281215C00400000');

// Utilities
$status = $client->utilities->api_status();
$headers = $client->utilities->headers();

Universal Parameters

All endpoints (other than utilities) supports universal parameters.

For instance, you can change the format to CSV

$option_chain = $client->options->option_chain(
    symbol: 'AAPL',
    expiration: '2028-12-15',
    side: Side::CALL,
    parameters: new Parameters(format: Format::CSV),
);

Testing

Running Tests Locally

Run all tests with PHPUnit:

./vendor/bin/phpunit

Testing Across PHP Versions

To test the SDK across all supported PHP versions (8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5), use the provided script:

# Test all PHP versions (8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5) with both prefer-lowest and prefer-stable
./test-with-act.sh

# Quick test: Test a specific PHP version only (prefer-stable)
./test-with-act.sh 8.5
./test-with-act.sh 8.4
./test-with-act.sh 8.3
./test-with-act.sh 8.2

Note: This script uses act to run the GitHub Actions workflow locally. It requires:

Docker installed and running
act installed (brew install act on macOS, or see act installation guide)

Integration Tests: Set the MARKETDATA_TOKEN environment variable before running to include integration tests:

export MARKETDATA_TOKEN=your_token_here
./test-with-act.sh

Contributing

Found a bug or want to contribute? See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on:

Reporting bugs with reproduction code
Setting up a development environment
Running tests
Submitting pull requests

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Credits

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

marketdataapp / sdk-php

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