👋 Introduction

Welcome to Alpaca's public workspace. This workspace contains our Broker, Market Data, and Trader APIs. Our APIs allow you to develop your own algorithms to buy and sell stocks and crypto or embed it into your application. See our full API documentation here.

🚀 Getting started with this workspace

To demonstrate how to get started, let's walk through the Broker API collection.

1. Fork the Broker API collection to your own workspace.

Go ahead and enter the name for your fork and select the workspace where you'll be working from. 2. Fork and setup the Broker API Environment Get your API keys from here. Upon creating an account you will be prompted to generate your keys. Be sure to store your apikey and apisecret somewhere private. Once you have your keys, head to the workspace where you forked your collection and environment. Keep in mind, this sample environment already has the host value for a sandbox account. If you would like to work in a production environment you will need to change the host URL and obtain the correct api keys for a production account. To continue with the sandbox environment, simply enter your apikey and apisecret in their respective place. Once you enter your keys, select this environment in the upper right corner as pictured below. 3. Make your first call! The Clock or Calendar resources are a great place to start to make sure your environment is configured correctly. Head to the GET Clock request and press Send. You should receive a similar response to the one pictured below.

🛟 Help and support

Check out our github to report any bugs or issues with the collections. You can also join our active slack community to connect with others and share feedback!