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Changing Sources

Many commands have multiple datasources attached to it. A great example is /stocka/fa/income that allows you to select YahooFinance, Polygon, AlphaVantage, FinancialModelingPrep or EODHD. Many have a default source, for example for income this is Yahoo Finance but you can change the default sources of each command via the sources menu.

2022 Nov 23, 06:09 (🦋) / $ sources

╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Data Sources ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
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│ Get and set default data sources:                                                                                                                                                                                  │
│     get                get available data sources associated with command                                                                                                                                          │
│     set                set default data source for a command                                                                                                                                                       │
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For example, if you would like to change the default data provider from the income command from the stocks/fa menu you can first run the command get following by stocks_load. This returns the following:

2022 Nov 23, 06:12 (🦋) /sources/ $ get stocks_fa_income


Default   : YahooFinance
Available : YahooFinance, Polygon, AlphaVantage, FinancialModelingPrep, EODHD

Then, with set you can change the default data provider. For example, we can change the data provider to Polygon with the following:

2022 Nov 23, 06:12 (🦋) /sources/ $ set stocks_fa_income Polygon

The data source was specified successfully.


2022 Nov 23, 06:12 (🦋) /sources/ $ get stocks_fa_income


Default   : Polygon
Available : Polygon, YahooFinance, AlphaVantage, FinancialModelingPrep, EODHD