Pine Seeds documentation

Overview

Pine Seeds is a service to import your custom data and access it via TradingView.

This service allows you to:

• connect your series data to TradingView
• open it on the TradingView chart
• use it in custom indicators

Use TradingView as your frontend and use a GitHub repository as your backend.

Keep in mind that such data (we call them EOD data, short for End-of-Day) has certain limitations:

• the data can only be updated a few times per day
• only daily-based timeframes (1D and above) can be applied to such data
• the number of data elements (symbols) is limited to 1000
• such data will not appear in the symbol search box

Note

Read our 5-minute tutorial to get started right now

Setting up the service includes several steps:

• data preparation
• setting up a repository
• manipulating data in the TradingView UI

Example

You just need to set up the repository, upload your data to it and wait for it to be uploaded to the TradingView platform.

SEED_CRYPTO_SANTIMENT:BTC_DEV_ACTIVITY is an example of custom data integration. You can work with it on your Chart.

The symbol name is uniquely determined by Github settings.

• SEED is a mandatory prefix for this type of data
• CRYPTO is the name of the github.com/crypto GitHub account
• SANTIMENT is the name of the github.com/crypto/santiment repository
• BTC_DEV_ACTIVITY is a data filename BTC_DEV_ACTIVITY.CSV

Now, using the built-in request.seed() function from the Pine Script™ language and the available data, you can build a chart.

//@version=5
indicator("BTC Dev Activity", format=format.volume)
//request.seed(source, repo_name, symbol, expression[, gaps])
activity = request.seed("crypto", "santiment", "BTC_DEV_ACTIVITY", close)
plot(activity, "BTC Dev Activity")

By adding Bitcoin developer activity data from the EOD source (SEED_CRYPTO_SANTIMENT:BTC_DEV_ACTIVITY) to the BTCUSD chart, you will receive additional information for technical analysis.

Read more

Data structure

Data storage form, data structure, field descriptions, field types, and data validation conditions.

GitHub settings

Account and repository settings, GitHub actions workflow, repositories organization, external data connection.

TradingView UI

Quick guide to requesting custom data series on TradingView charts.

FAQ

If you have any questions that haven't been covered by info in the sections above, take a look here.