Get Specific Alert

Fetch information about a specific price alert

Overview

This GET endpoint enables you to retrieve information about a particular price alert of the user whose ID is provided in the request. Price alerts are essentially notifications that are sent to the user when the alert's conditions are satisfied by the market. For example, a user may have a price alert that will notify them when the price of the Apple stock exceeds $200.

There are five required parameters that must be provided in the request:

1. Et-App-Key (header). This is the unique key of your app that identifies your app when communicating with our service. Contact your administrator to get this key.

2. Authorization (header). This is the authorization token from the very first token request.

3. API version (path). Unless necessary, leave it at "1.0".

4. userID (path). This is the ID of the user whose particular price alert's information needs to be retrieved.

5. alertID (query). This is the ID of the price alert whose information needs to be retrieved.

Here's the final template for this API request:

GET apiURL/v1.0/users/{userID}/pricealerts/{alertID}

Response

In response to this API request, you'll receive a JSON file with the detailed information about the price alert.

{
  "Id": 1713,
  "State": "New",
  "CreatedDate": 1574788285,
  "Operator": "LTEQ",
  "SecurityId": 4,
  "Symbol": "AAPL",
  "Field": "Last",
  "Argument": 250,
  "ExpirationDate": 1577293871
}

where:

Parameter	Description
Id	This is the internal identifier of the price alert.
State	This is the state of the price alert. Possible values: New, Expired, Completed, Stopped.
CreatedDate	This is the date on which the price alert was created (in ticks).
Operator	This is the condition of the price alert. Possible values: GTEQ (greater or equal to), LTEQ (less than or equal to).
SecurityId	This is the ID of the security for which the price alert is configured.
Symbol	This is the ticker symbol of the security for which the price alert is configured.
Field	This is the referent price for the price alert. Possible values: Ask, Bid, Last.
Argument	This is the price point at which the price alert will be triggered and the user will be notified.
ExpirationDate	This is the expiration date of the price alert (in ticks).

Common Mistakes

Here are some of the common mistakes that developers make when attempting to retrieve information about a particular price alert.

Failing to Specify the Et-App-Key Parameter

If you specify the wrong Et-App-Key parameter or fail to include it in the header altogether, you'll get the following error:

{
    "error": "Application key is not defined or does not exist"
}

The following article covers the syntax for this API request in detail.