Pine Seeds documentation

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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 the 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 5 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 6000
• such data will not appear in the symbol search box

Setting up the service includes several steps:

1. Setting up a repository.
2. Data preparation.
3. Manipulating data in the TradingView UI.

Example

You can take the seed_crypto_santiment project as a reference for your repository. The project has the proper structure for symbol data.

You can also open symbols from seed_crypto_santiment on the TradingView chart and work with it. For example, SEED_CRYPTO_SANTIMENT:BTC_DEV_ACTIVITY is an example of custom data integration. The symbol name is uniquely determined by the GitHub settings.

• SEED is a required prefix.
• CRYPTO is the account name github.com/crypto.
• SANTIMENT is the suffix of the GitHib repository name github.com/crypto/seed_crypto_santiment. The suffix is needed so that you can use several repositories for different data groups, e.g., seed_<username>_<suffix1>, seed_<username>_<suffix2>.
• BTC_DEV_ACTIVITY is the BTC_DEV_ACTIVITY.CSV data file name.

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, symbol, expression)
activity = request.seed("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.

Example script for automating data history uploads

Check the script example that automates data history uploads to a forked repository.