# quandl/quandl-python

Repository: https://github.com/quandl/quandl-python
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/quandl-python
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: python, quandl, api-client, retrieve-data, dataset, data-frame
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-04-29T15:50:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4910, "days_push": 1587, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1432, forks 338 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:43.050764+00:00)

## What it is
The official Python client for the Quandl RESTful API, used to retrieve financial and economic datasets as pandas DataFrames. It has been superseded by Nasdaq Data Link's data-link-python client and is now in maintenance/deprecation.

## Use cases
- download financial time series data into pandas dataframes
- query the quandl api from python
- fetch economic datasets for analysis
- retrieve stock and market data with an api key
- pull historical data for backtesting

## When to choose
- you have legacy code already using the quandl package
- you need a simple, stable client for the classic Quandl API

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project - use Nasdaq Data Link's data-link-python instead
- you need new API features or active support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-client, sdk, data-science
- domain: data-science, apis, fintech, analytics
- platform: python, cli
- tags: api-client, financial-data, pandas, deprecated, nasdaq-data-link

## Member repositories
- quandl/quandl-python (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:43.050764+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:37:03.094256+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/quandl/quandl-python (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:43.050764+00:00, sha d3b19179f471)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.