Databento Reference API
Reference and non-price data that complements the market data feeds - a security master (instrument definitions and identifiers), corporate actions (splits, dividends, symbol changes, and other events), and adjustment factors for building back-adjusted price series. Served over the same REST HTTP surface as the historical API.
Databento Reference API is one of 7 APIs that Databento publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Reference Data, Corporate Actions, Security Master, Financial Data, and Market Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and an OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 1 schema. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://hist.databento.com/v0.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Databento Reference API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (apiKeyBasicAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
apiKeyBasicAuth— HTTP Basic authentication. Supply your Databento API key (prefixed with db-) as the username and leave the password empty.
Paths & Operations 4
Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Security master, corporate actions, and adjustment factors.
Schemas 1
The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is Error (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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