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RUN : 114 active pipelines : nasdaq.com live

Market data,
at trading scale.

We extract real-time quotes, options chains, short interest, dividend history, and earnings calendars from Nasdaq. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Quotes extracted
14.2M /day
Options chains
8.4M /24h
Earnings records
412K /run
Active pipelines
114
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from nasdaq.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Real-Time Quotes objects from nasdaq.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

symbolcompany_namelast_sale_pricenet_changepct_changevolumemarket_capprevious_closetoday_hightoday_low52_week_high52_week_low
real-time_quotes
● 200 OK
"symbol": "AAPL",
"company_name": "Apple Inc.",
"last_sale_price": 173.5,
"net_change": 1.25,
"pct_change": 0.72,
"volume": 45210934,
"market_cap": 2810000000000,
"previous_close": 172.25
# symbolcompany_namelast_sale_pricenet_changepct_changevolume
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Complete list of extractable fields for Options Chains objects from nasdaq.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

symbolexpiration_datestrike_pricecall_putlast_pricebidaskvolumeopen_interestimplied_volatilitydeltagamma
options_chains
● 200 OK
"symbol": "TSLA",
"expiration_date": "2026-05-15",
"strike_price": 200.0,
"call_put": "call",
"last_price": 12.45,
"bid": 12.4,
"ask": 12.5,
"open_interest": 15432
# symbolexpiration_datestrike_pricecall_putlast_pricebid
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Complete list of extractable fields for Historical Prices objects from nasdaq.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

symboldateopenhighlowclosevolumeadjusted_closevwaptrade_count
historical_prices
● 200 OK
"symbol": "MSFT",
"date": "2026-04-10",
"open": 410.5,
"high": 415.2,
"low": 409.1,
"close": 414.8,
"volume": 22104500,
"vwap": 412.35
# symboldateopenhighlowclose
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Complete list of extractable fields for Institutional Holdings objects from nasdaq.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

symbolinstitution_nameshares_heldvaluechange_in_sharespct_changereport_datefiling_typeportfolio_pctowner_type
institutional_holdings
● 200 OK
"symbol": "NVDA",
"institution_name": "Vanguard Group Inc",
"shares_held": 185420100,
"value": 165020000000,
"change_in_shares": 1205000,
"pct_change": 0.65,
"report_date": "2026-03-31",
"filing_type": "13F"
# symbolinstitution_nameshares_heldvaluechange_in_sharespct_change
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Complete list of extractable fields for Earnings & Dividends objects from nasdaq.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

symbolearnings_dateeps_forecasteps_actualsurprise_pctdividend_ex_datedividend_amountdividend_yieldpayout_ratioannouncement_date
earnings_& dividends
● 200 OK
"symbol": "JPM",
"earnings_date": "2026-04-14",
"eps_forecast": 4.15,
"eps_actual": 4.3,
"surprise_pct": 3.61,
"dividend_ex_date": "2026-04-05",
"dividend_amount": 1.15,
"dividend_yield": 2.45
# symbolearnings_dateeps_forecasteps_actualsurprise_pctdividend_ex_date
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Nasdaq, nothing you do not

Our Nasdaq scraper handles every layer of the platform: intraday quotes, options chains, short interest, and institutional filings. We manage the rate limits, proxy rotation, and API interception required for financial data.

Real-Time Equity Quotes

Extract last sale price, bid/ask spread, volume, and intraday highs/lows for all US-listed equities and ETFs.

Options Chain Extraction

Capture strike prices, expirations, greeks, and open interest for complex derivatives trading models across all expiry dates.

Historical Price Time-Series

Download daily, weekly, or monthly OHLCV data spanning decades for backtesting algorithms and quantitative research.

Institutional & Insider Activity

Track Form 13F filings, insider buys/sells, and institutional ownership percentages to monitor smart money movements.

Earnings Calendar & Surprises

Monitor upcoming earnings dates, consensus EPS forecasts, and historical beat/miss metrics for thousands of tickers.

Short Interest Data

Extract bi-monthly short interest reports, days to cover, and settlement dates per ticker to gauge market sentiment.

Pre-Market & After-Hours

Capture extended trading hours data when market volatility peaks and earnings announcements occur.

ETF & Mutual Fund Profiles

Extract net asset value, expense ratios, top 10 holdings, and sector weightings for index funds.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

Run one-off historical dumps or configure continuous intraday pipelines at minute-level cadences.

// engagement pipeline

From ticker list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide ticker lists, asset classes, or index constituents. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy and Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and session management for nasdaq.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and price-outlier detection before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Nasdaq pipeline handles the hard parts

Financial portals use aggressive rate limiting and complex API structures to protect market data. Here is how we maintain reliable extraction.

pipeline-monitor · nasdaq.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
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation and fingerprint spoofing

Nasdaq uses Datadome and Cloudflare to block automated traffic. We route requests through US residential IPs with TLS fingerprinting aligned to standard Chrome builds to mimic human behaviour.

API interception
Hidden XHR and GraphQL endpoints

Instead of parsing HTML tables, our Playwright workers intercept the underlying XHR requests driving the dynamic charts and grids, extracting clean JSON payloads directly for maximum fidelity.

Rate limiting
Adaptive backoff and jitter

Aggressive polling triggers IP bans. We implement distributed token buckets and randomised request delays to stay under Nasdaq threshold limits while maintaining data freshness.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors with fallback chains

Market data layouts change during major site updates. We monitor API schema drift and maintain fallback parsers to ensure your options chains and historical data streams never break.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, stale quotes, and coverage drops. SLA uptime is contractual, not aspirational.

Applications

Who uses Nasdaq data and how

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

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Algorithmic Trading

Quant funds use historical OHLCV data and options greeks to backtest trading strategies and train predictive models.

02
Alternative Data Analysis

Hedge funds track institutional ownership shifts and insider trading patterns to gauge market sentiment.

03
Risk Management

Risk desks monitor short interest and implied volatility across portfolios to stress-test market exposure.

04
Retail Platform Feeds

Fintech apps ingest end-of-day pricing and dividend calendars to populate user dashboards and portfolio trackers.

05
Academic Research

Universities extract decades of earnings surprise data and corporate actions for financial market studies.

06
Competitor Intelligence

Corporate strategy teams monitor peer valuations, dividend yields, and analyst consensus estimates.

Why DataFlirt

"Nasdaq holds the definitive record for US equity markets, but extracting options chains and historical pricing at scale requires infrastructure most teams do not have."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable Nasdaq scraping requires defeating Datadome, intercepting hidden APIs, managing US residential proxies, and maintaining minute-level scheduling. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your quants can focus on alpha generation, not pipeline maintenance.

Technical Spec

Nasdaq scraper technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic charts and UI grids
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha and CapSolver integration for bot challenges
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from US pools rotated per request
Supported
XHR and API interception
Direct extraction of JSON payloads behind UI grids
Supported
Options chain pagination
Full traversal of all expiration dates and strike prices
Supported
Pre-market and After-hours
Extended hours quote extraction during peak volatility
Supported
Change detection
Hash-based diff for institutional holdings and insider trades
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record for real-time portfolio workflows
Supported
Nasdaq Basic Level 2 Order Book
Requires proprietary exchange feeds and licensing
Partial
Real-time sub-millisecond tick data
SIP feed access required; web scraping latency is too high
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Nasdaq 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 and XHR interception. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across US regions to bypass Datadome. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles minute-level scheduling and dependency management. 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 for quantitative analysts
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, and Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoints for on-demand querying
XLS
Excel compatible exports for financial analysts
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

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

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Nasdaq legal?

Scraping publicly available market data is generally permissible. We target public quotes, historical prices, and SEC filings surfaced on the site. We do not bypass authentication walls or extract proprietary licensed feeds.

How do you bypass Datadome and Cloudflare?

We use US-based residential proxies, Playwright sessions with realistic browser fingerprints, and randomised request pacing to avoid triggering bot mitigations.

Can you extract options chains for all expirations?

Yes. Our crawlers iterate through every available expiration date and strike price, capturing bid, ask, volume, and open interest for both calls and puts.

How fresh is the real-time quote data?

Web scraping introduces inherent latency. While we can poll at minute-level frequencies, this is not a substitute for SIP feeds if you require sub-millisecond tick data for high-frequency trading.

Do you extract historical OHLCV data?

Yes. We can pull daily historical pricing spanning decades for any active US-listed equity or ETF, including dividend-adjusted close prices.

Can you track institutional ownership?

Yes. We extract 13F filing summaries, total shares held, and position changes for institutional holders listed on Nasdaq.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined ticker list of 500 equities with daily delivery. We price based on volume and delivery frequency.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Yes. We provide a sample run of up to 50 tickers across equities and options as part of the pre-engagement scoping process to validate schema fit.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=nasdaq.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 a historical OHLCV dump or a continuous options chain feed across 5,000 tickers, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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