Here's a fast and free way to get historical option price data; it's easy to get all the option data you might need in Python from the Polygon.io API.   

Here's all the code from the video  

https://github.com/AdamGetbags/polygonData/blob/main/historicalOptionDataPolygon.py https://github.com/AdamGetbags/polygonData/blob/main/polygonAPIkey.py 

0:32 open the docs 

0:50 create a Polygon.io account and subscribe to free basic plan 

1:25 pip install polygon-api-client 

1:34 import modules 

1:46 get API key from Polygon.io into python 

2:19 authenticate your client with API key 

2:34 request contract data for every available option by underlying 

3:35 BEWARE of the rate limit 

3:49 extract the individual contract data 

4:17 assign option ticker to variable using individual contract data 

4:30 create a request for OHLC option data  

5:07 define frequency and periodicity of bars 

5:30 get historical option price data  

5:37 format to dataframe, reformat timestamp, and set index 

6:24 plot a candlestick chart  

The Polygon.io API features a ton of useful methods for getting stock, option, cryptocurrency, and forex data in a bunch of different programming languages.

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