Add example for pulling down historical stock prices for Google

hydrosquall · Dec 24, 2017 · eccd4a9 · eccd4a9
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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
@@ -71,9 +71,16 @@ Now you can use ``TiingoClient`` to make your API calls. (Other parameters are a
   # Get Ticker
   ticker_metadata = client.get_ticker_metadata("GOOGL")
 
-  # Get latest prices, based on 3+ sources, as CSV or JSON, sampled weekly
+  # Get latest prices, based on 3+ sources as JSON, sampled weekly
   ticker_price = client.get_ticker_price("GOOGL", frequency="weekly")
 
+  # Get historical GOOGL prices from August 2017 as JSON, sampled daily
+  historical_prices = client.get_ticker_price("GOOGL",
+                                              fmt='json',
+                                              startDate='2017-08-01',
+                                              endDate='2017-08-31',
+                                              frequency='daily')
+
   # Check what tickers are available, as well as metadata about each ticker
   # including supported currency, exchange, and available start/end dates.
   tickers = client.list_stock_tickers()

diff --git a/docs/usage.rst b/docs/usage.rst
@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ Now you can use ``TiingoClient`` to make your API calls. (Other parameters are a
    # Get latest prices, based on 3+ sources, as CSV or JSON, sampled weekly
    ticker_price = client.get_ticker_price("GOOGL", frequency="weekly")
 
+   # Get historical GOOGL prices from August 2017 as JSON, sampled daily
+   historical_prices = client.get_ticker_price("GOOGL",
+                                               fmt='json',
+                                               startDate='2017-08-01',
+                                               endDate='2017-08-31',
+                                               frequency='daily')
+
    # Check what tickers are available, as well as metadata about each ticker
    # including supported currency, exchange, and available start/end dates.
    tickers = client.list_stock_tickers()