A comprehensive financial data connector providing real-time and historical insights for stocks, forex, and cryptocurrency markets.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install alpha-vantage-api
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install alpha-vantage-api using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Alpha Vantage Financial Data Skill?
The Alpha Vantage skill is a technical integration designed to fetch high-fidelity financial market data directly into your environment. By utilizing the Alpha Vantage API, this skill empowers Openclaw Skills users to query global equities, foreign exchange pairs, and digital assets with ease. It serves as a bridge between raw market data and actionable insights, supporting both real-time monitoring and deep historical analysis.
This skill is particularly valuable for developers and analysts who need programmatic access to market trends without manual data scraping. Whether you are tracking the latest price of AAPL, analyzing USD/JPY currency fluctuations, or monitoring Bitcoin volatility, this skill provides a structured and efficient way to retrieve that data via Node.js.
Alpha Vantage Financial Data Skill Use Cases
- Tracking real-time stock quotes for active portfolio monitoring.
- Retrieving historical daily, weekly, or monthly K-line (OHLC) data for technical trend analysis.
- Monitoring foreign exchange (Forex) rates for international trade or currency conversion calculations.
- Fetching cryptocurrency market data for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital tokens.
- Automating financial data retrieval for custom reporting dashboards or alerting systems.
How Alpha Vantage Financial Data Skill Works
- The user provides a ticker symbol or currency pair as an input parameter to the skill.
- The skill authenticates the request using a configured Alpha Vantage API key.
- A structured HTTP request is dispatched to the Alpha Vantage REST API endpoints.
- The skill receives and parses the JSON response containing market data or time-series information.
- Results are formatted and returned to the user, including price, volume, and timestamp metadata.
Alpha Vantage Financial Data Skill Setup
To get started with this skill within the Openclaw Skills ecosystem, follow these steps:
- Obtain a free API key from Alpha Vantage.
- Configure your API key locally:
node alpha.js apikey YOUR_API_KEY
- Alternatively, pass the key as an environment variable for one-off commands:
ALPHA_KEY=your_key node alpha.js quote AAPL
Alpha Vantage Financial Data Skill Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill organizes financial data into logical segments based on the asset class and timeframe. Below is the metadata taxonomy used:
| Data Type | Command | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time Quote | quote |
Current price, change percentage, and volume |
| Daily Time Series | daily |
Historical Open, High, Low, Close (OHLC) per day |
| Weekly Time Series | weekly |
Historical OHLC data aggregated by week |
| Monthly Time Series | monthly |
Historical OHLC data aggregated by month |
| Forex Rates | forex |
Bid/Ask prices for currency pairs |
| Crypto Rates | crypto |
Real-time exchange rates for digital assets |
Alpha Vantage Financial Data Skill Advanced Features
- Environment Variable Support: Securely inject API keys without persisting them to disk.
- Multi-Asset Support: Unified interface for Equities, FX, and Cryptocurrencies.
- Flexible Timeframes: Choose between real-time snapshots or long-term historical intervals.
- Rate Limit Handling: Built-in awareness of API usage limits (5 requests per minute for free keys).
- Persistent Configuration: Save your API key locally for seamless subsequent queries.
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