How can I consume real-time data from alphavantage API in python's dictionary?

Question

I try to use alphavantage API in my project. At the moment I am going to parse the JSON data in this way:

from alpha_vantage.timeseries import TimeSeries

def AlphaVantage(symbol):
    ts = TimeSeries(key='mykey')
    data = ts.get_intraday(symbol, interval='1min')

    print(str(data))


AlphaVantage('MSFT')

I would like to get only the most current data.

Answer 1

If the API does not provide it, you can just grab the first one as the data is obviously sorted by date:

print(str(data['Time Series (1min)'][0]))

Hope it helps!

Answer 2

The data returned is a tuple. There are two dictionaries inside the tuple. The first one contains the time and high/low values and the second contains the metadata. So, you can access the time:high/low values by data[0]. As you know that the keys in a dictionary are unsorted, so to only get the most recent data, you can use max of keys of this dictionary. So, the final code would be like this: print(str(data[0][max(data[0].keys())]))