Alpha Vantage
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Skip the manual setup — run this in your project and the wizard auto-detects your databases and APIs and connects them to PostHog.
Connect Alpha Vantage to PostHog to sync your data into the PostHog data warehouse for analysis and modeling.
Enter your Alpha Vantage API key and the stock symbols you want to track to pull market data and company fundamentals into the PostHog Data warehouse.
You can claim a free API key on the Alpha Vantage support page.
Note: the free tier is limited to roughly 25 requests per day, and each selected table costs one request per symbol on every sync. Some datasets require a paid plan.
Configuration
| Option | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
API key | password | Yes |
Symbols (comma-separated) | text | Yes |
Linking Alpha Vantage to PostHog
- Go to the Data pipeline page in PostHog
- Click New source and select Alpha Vantage
- Fill in the required configuration fields
- Click Next, select the tables you want to sync, and then press Import
Supported tables
| Table | Description | Sync method | Incremental field | Primary key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
time_series_daily | Daily open/high/low/close/volume bars per symbol (20+ years of history). Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, date |
time_series_daily_adjusted | Daily bars per symbol with split/dividend-adjusted close, dividend amount, and split coefficient (25+ years of history). Requires a paid Alpha Vantage plan. Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, date |
time_series_weekly | Weekly open/high/low/close/volume bars per symbol. Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, date |
time_series_monthly | Monthly open/high/low/close/volume bars per symbol. Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, date |
global_quote | Latest price and trading-day snapshot per symbol (one row per symbol). Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol |
company_overview | Company fundamentals, ratios, and descriptive fields per symbol (one row per symbol). Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol |
income_statement | Annual and quarterly income statements per symbol. One row per report. Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, fiscalDateEnding, report_type |
balance_sheet | Annual and quarterly balance sheets per symbol. One row per report. Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, fiscalDateEnding, report_type |
cash_flow | Annual and quarterly cash-flow statements per symbol. One row per report. Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, fiscalDateEnding, report_type |
earnings | Annual and quarterly reported EPS (with estimates and surprise) per symbol. One row per report. Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, fiscalDateEnding, report_type |
dividends | Historical and declared dividend distributions per symbol. One row per distribution. Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, ex_dividend_date |
splits | Historical stock split events per symbol. One row per split. Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, effective_date |
insider_transactions | Insider buy and sell transactions by executives, directors and other key stakeholders per symbol. One row per filing. Supports incremental sync. | Incremental, Full refresh | transaction_date | symbol, transaction_date, executive, security_type, acquisition_or_disposal, shares, share_price |
institutional_holdings | Institutional holder positions per symbol, each row carrying the symbol's overall institutional ownership totals. Roughly 4,000 holders per symbol. Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, holder_name, last_reported, shares_held |
news_sentiment | Market news articles mentioning each symbol, with article-level and per-ticker sentiment scores. One row per article per symbol. Supports incremental sync. | Incremental, Full refresh | time_published | symbol, url |
listing_status | Every active and delisted US stock and ETF with its exchange, asset type, and IPO/delisting dates. Covers the whole market rather than the configured symbols. Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, status, ipoDate |
earnings_calendar | Company earnings scheduled over the next 12 months, with the consensus EPS estimate. Covers the whole market rather than the configured symbols. Full refresh. | Full refresh | — | symbol, reportDate, fiscalDateEnding |