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Market data,
delivered at low latency.

We extract equities, options flow, futures contracts, commodities pricing, and Barchart Opinion indicators. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Options contracts
3.2M /day
Futures updates
845K /hour
Equities tracked
14.2K /run
Active pipelines
84
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from barchart.com

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Equities & Stocks objects from barchart.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

symbolcompany_nameexchangelast_priceprice_changepercent_changevolumemarket_cappe_ratiodividend_yieldbarchart_opinion52_week_high52_week_low
equities_& stocks
● 200 OK
"symbol": "AAPL",
"company_name": "Apple Inc.",
"last_price": 189.45,
"price_change": 1.2,
"percent_change": 0.64,
"volume": 45892100,
"barchart_opinion": "88% Buy"
# symbolcompany_nameexchangelast_priceprice_changepercent_change
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Complete list of extractable fields for Options Data & Greeks objects from barchart.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

symbolunderlying_symbolexpiration_datestrike_priceoption_typelast_pricebidaskvolumeopen_interestimplied_volatilitydeltagammathetavega
options_data & greeks
● 200 OK
"symbol": "AAPL240119C00190000",
"underlying_symbol": "AAPL",
"expiration_date": "2024-01-19",
"strike_price": 190.0,
"option_type": "Call",
"last_price": 4.55,
"implied_volatility": 0.245,
"delta": 0.52
# symbolunderlying_symbolexpiration_datestrike_priceoption_typelast_price
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Complete list of extractable fields for Futures & Commodities objects from barchart.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

contract_symbolcommodity_nameexpiration_monthlast_priceprice_changehighlowvolumeopen_interestsettlement_priceexchangecontract_size
futures_& commodities
● 200 OK
"contract_symbol": "CLZ24",
"commodity_name": "Crude Oil WTI",
"expiration_month": "Dec 2024",
"last_price": 78.45,
"price_change": -0.32,
"volume": 124500,
"open_interest": 345000
# contract_symbolcommodity_nameexpiration_monthlast_priceprice_changehigh
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Complete list of extractable fields for Unusual Options Activity objects from barchart.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

symbolbase_symboloption_typestrikeexpirationpricevolumeopen_interestvol_oi_ratioimplied_volatilitytrade_timedte
unusual_options activity
● 200 OK
"symbol": "TSLA240216P00200000",
"base_symbol": "TSLA",
"option_type": "Put",
"strike": 200.0,
"volume": 15400,
"open_interest": 1200,
"vol_oi_ratio": 12.8,
"implied_volatility": 0.58
# symbolbase_symboloption_typestrikeexpirationprice
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Complete list of extractable fields for Barchart Opinion objects from barchart.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

symboloverall_opinionshort_term_indicatormedium_term_indicatorlong_term_indicator20_day_ma50_day_ma100_day_ma200_day_marsi_14macd
barchart_opinion
● 200 OK
"symbol": "NVDA",
"overall_opinion": "100% Buy",
"short_term_indicator": "Buy",
"medium_term_indicator": "Buy",
"long_term_indicator": "Buy",
"rsi_14": 72.4,
"50_day_ma": 425.6
# symboloverall_opinionshort_term_indicatormedium_term_indicatorlong_term_indicator20_day_ma
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Capabilities

Financial data extracted at scale

Our Barchart scraper processes dynamic financial tables, XHR payloads, and historical charts to deliver structured market intelligence without the overhead of manual data engineering.

Unusual Options Activity

Capture high volume-to-open-interest ratios, sweep orders, and block trades across all US equity options.

Futures & Commodities Pricing

Extract continuous front-month contracts, term structures, and settlement prices for energy, metals, and agriculture.

Barchart Opinion Ratings

Track proprietary buy/sell signals, trend indicators, and technical strength scores across multiple timeframes.

Options Greeks & Implied Volatility

Extract delta, gamma, theta, vega, and IV metrics for complete options chains at end-of-day or intraday intervals.

Equities & ETF Constituents

Monitor price action, volume leaders, sector performance, and detailed ETF holdings across global exchanges.

Historical Market Data

Paginate through historical daily, weekly, and monthly price charts to build comprehensive backtesting datasets.

Forex & Crypto Crosses

Extract spot rates, forward curves, and trading volumes for major currency pairs and digital assets.

Earnings & Fundamentals

Track EPS estimates, earnings surprise history, dividend dates, and core financial ratios for publicly traded companies.

Market Movers & Screeners

Scrape pre-market gainers, 52-week highs/lows, and gap up/down lists directly from Barchart's dynamic screeners.

// engagement pipeline

From ticker list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide ticker lists, asset classes, or specific Barchart screener URLs. We map the extraction schema.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Playwright spiders, proxy rotation, and anti-bot circumvention for barchart.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and data type normalisation before full production launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Barchart pipeline handles the hard parts

Financial data sites employ aggressive rate limiting and complex dynamic rendering. Here is how we maintain data integrity at scale.

pipeline-monitor · barchart.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Dynamic Data Tables
WebSocket and XHR interception

Barchart populates options chains and screener results via complex asynchronous requests. Our pipeline intercepts these XHR payloads directly, bypassing HTML parsing for faster, more reliable extraction.

Rate Limiting
Distributed IP rotation

Financial data sites aggressively throttle high-frequency requests. We distribute queries across a pool of ISP-grade residential proxies, preventing IP bans and ensuring continuous data flow during market hours.

Pagination Limits
Screener parameter manipulation

Barchart's web interface restricts deep pagination on large result sets. We construct programmatic API queries to bypass UI limits, extracting the complete dataset rather than just the first 1,000 rows.

Data Normalisation
Standardised financial formatting

Raw financial data often contains mixed formats. We normalise volumes, dates, and strike prices into strict numeric and ISO-8601 formats before delivery.

Market Hour Spikes
Elastic compute scaling

During market open and close, the volume of unusual options activity spikes exponentially. Our Kubernetes-based infrastructure scales worker nodes dynamically to maintain latency SLAs during peak volatility.

Applications

Who uses Barchart data

Teams across industries use barchart.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

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Quantitative Trading & Backtesting

Quant funds consume historical options data and futures term structures to backtest statistical arbitrage strategies.

02
Retail Sentiment Analysis

Prop desks monitor Barchart's unusual options activity and volume leaders to gauge retail sentiment and institutional positioning.

03
Risk Management

Portfolio managers track implied volatility surfaces and Options Greeks to dynamically hedge equity exposure.

04
Commodity Procurement

Supply chain teams monitor agriculture and energy futures to optimise physical commodity purchasing and lock in forward pricing.

05
Alternative Data Aggregation

Market data vendors integrate Barchart Opinion ratings and technical indicators into their own retail trading platforms.

06
Academic Research

Universities and economic researchers analyse long-term equities and futures datasets for macroeconomic studies.

Why DataFlirt

"Barchart aggregates an immense volume of derivatives and commodities data, but institutional analysis requires that data in a queryable warehouse, not a web browser."

Extracting financial data at scale requires strict adherence to schema typing, latency management, and robust anti-bot circumvention. DataFlirt manages the proxy rotation, XHR interception, and infrastructure scaling so your quantitative analysts can focus on alpha generation, not pipeline maintenance.

Technical Spec

Barchart scraper — technical capabilities

Everything supported by our barchart.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

Equities & ETFs
Full price action, volume, and technical indicators
Supported
Options Chains
Complete calls and puts with Greeks and Implied Volatility
Supported
Unusual Options Activity
High volume/OI ratio alerts and block trade data
Supported
Futures Contracts
Front-month and historical contracts for all major commodities
Supported
Barchart Opinion
Proprietary technical buy/sell/hold indicators
Supported
XHR/API Interception
Direct extraction from backend endpoints for lowest latency
Supported
Historical Chart Data
Daily/weekly/monthly OHLCV data extraction
Supported
Real-Time Streaming
Sub-second tick data requires direct exchange feeds, not web scraping
Partial
Barchart Premier Gated Data
Requires authenticated session credentials to access premium CSV downloads
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Barchart pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across IN/US/UK/DE regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested — schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns — Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Excel spreadsheet format for legacy financial modelling
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
RESTful API access to query your extracted datasets
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About barchart.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Can you scrape Barchart's options chains in real-time?

Web scraping is bound by HTTP latency and caching layers. We provide high-frequency intraday snapshots (e.g., 5-minute or 15-minute intervals), but sub-second tick data requires direct exchange API feeds.

Do you extract Barchart Opinion ratings?

Yes. We extract the overall percentage rating alongside the short, medium, and long-term technical indicators for any specified list of equities or ETFs.

How do you handle Barchart's anti-bot protection?

We utilise ISP-grade residential proxies, realistic TLS fingerprinting, and automated CAPTCHA solving. For complex dynamic tables, we intercept the underlying XHR requests rather than simulating browser clicks.

Can you extract Unusual Options Activity data?

Yes. We monitor and extract the Unusual Options Activity screeners, capturing strike, expiration, volume-to-open-interest ratios, and implied volatility metrics.

Do you support historical price extraction?

We can extract historical daily, weekly, or monthly OHLCV data as presented on Barchart's historical data pages, paginating through the available date ranges.

What happens if Barchart changes its website structure?

Our pipelines use resilient fallback selectors and API endpoint targeting. If a structural change causes a failure, our alerting stack notifies our engineering team immediately to deploy a fix, ensuring minimal downtime.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=barchart.com ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need daily options flow data or a continuous feed of futures pricing — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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