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sidebar_position: 1
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title: Introduction
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keywords: ["getting started", "openbb", "api", "beginner guide", "how to use openbb", "openbb keys", "openbb terminal", "openbb", "terminal"]
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excerpt: "This page guides you how to use the OpenBB terminal, developed by OpenBB."
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description: "The OpenBB Documentation provides guidance on how to use the OpenBB Terminal, a free, custom built
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financial terminal that will help you make more informed decisions, faster."
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---
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import Card from "@site/src/components/General/Card";
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OpenBB is a leading open source investment research software platform for accessing and analyzing financial market data. We represent millions of investors who want to leverage state-of-the-art data science and machine learning technologies to make sense of raw unrefined data. Our mission is to make investment research effective, powerful and accessible to everyone.
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Want to contribute? Check out our [CONTRIBUTING GUIDELINES](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
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**The OpenBB Terminal is Free and Open-Source (FOSS)**
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<div className="grid-child">
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[![Stargazers][stars-shield]][stars-url] [![Forks][forks-shield]][forks-url]
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[![Contributors][contributors-shield]][contributors-url]
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[![MIT License][license-shield]][license-url]
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[![Twitter][twitter-shield]][twitter-url]
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</div>
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---
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<Card
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title="Why Free?"
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description="We believe that everyone should be able to have the same tooling to do
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investment research. By leveraging free API tiers, we can allow users to have
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access to a vast range of information for free. On the other hand, we want users
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that are willing to subscribe to premium API keys from certain data providers to
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be able to take advantage of that on OpenBB Terminal - this is where we see a
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monetization opportunity, a revenue share with data providers for connecting our
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users to their resources."
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/>
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<Card
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title="Why Open Source?"
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description="An open source product allows for higher quality, lower costs, more
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transparency, and faster go-to-market due to the strong community created. There
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is no point in re-inventing the wheel for financial theory that has been around
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for decades, thus users can adapt the platform to their needs or even build
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proprietary features on top of our infrastructure."
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/>
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<Card
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title="Why Python?"
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description="Python is one of the most used programming languages due to its simplified
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syntax and shallow learning curve. On top of this, it is highly used in data
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science and academia world (particularly on finance, economics or business
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related degrees). This is very important, as it is the first time in history
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that users - regardless of their background - can so easily add features to an
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investment research platform."
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/>
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---
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Want to learn how to install the OpenBB Terminal? Check out our [Installation](/terminal/quickstart/installation) guide.
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Want to know how to import and export data? Check out our [Data Import/Export](/terminal/guides/advanced/data)
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Looking for personalized routines? Check out our [User Routines](/terminal/guides/advanced/scripts-and-routines)
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[contributors-shield]: https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal.svg?style=for-the-badge
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[contributors-url]: https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/graphs/contributors
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[forks-shield]: https://img.shields.io/github/forks/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal.svg?style=for-the-badge
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[forks-url]: https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/network/members
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[stars-shield]: https://img.shields.io/github/stars/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal.svg?style=for-the-badge
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[stars-url]: https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/stargazers
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[issues-shield]: https://img.shields.io/github/issues/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal.svg?style=for-the-badge&color=blue
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[issues-url]: https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/issues
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[bugs-open-shield]: https://img.shields.io/github/issues/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/bug.svg?style=for-the-badge&color=yellow
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[bugs-open-url]: https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Abug+is%3Aopen
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[bugs-closed-shield]: https://img.shields.io/github/issues-closed/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/bug.svg?style=for-the-badge&color=success
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[bugs-closed-url]: https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/issues?q=is%3Aissue+label%3Abug+is%3Aclosed
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[license-shield]: https://img.shields.io/github/license/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal.svg?style=for-the-badge
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[license-url]: https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/blob/main/LICENSE
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[twitter-shield]: https://img.shields.io/twitter/follow/openbb_finance?style=for-the-badge&color=blue
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[twitter-url]: https://twitter.com/openbb_finance
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