📈 FinSight

A high-performance Next.js API endpoint for fetching real-time stock prices with intelligent concurrency control and rate limiting.

🚀 Features

• Real-time stock data from Yahoo Finance
• Queue-based concurrency for optimal performance
• Rate limiting protection to prevent API throttling
• Robust error handling with detailed logging
• Input validation and sanitization
• Batch processing up to 10 symbols per request
• Indian stock market support with automatic symbol mapping

📊 Performance

• 3x faster than sequential processing
• Configurable concurrency (default: 3 concurrent requests)
• Smart rate limiting (200ms delay between batches)
• Timeout protection (8-second request timeout)

🛠️ Installation

# Install dependencies
npm install yahoo-finance2

# Or with yarn
yarn add yahoo-finance2

📋 API Reference

Endpoint

POST /api/stocks/prices

Request Body

{
  "symbols": ["AAPL", "GOOGL", "MSFT", "RELIANCE", "TCS"]
}

Response Format

{
  "results": [
    {
      "symbol": "AAPL",
      "price": 150.25,
      "previousClose": 148.50,
      "changePercent": 1.18,
      "success": true
    },
    {
      "symbol": "INVALID",
      "price": 0,
      "success": false,
      "error": "Quote fetch failed"
    }
  ],
  "summary": {
    "total": 2,
    "successful": 1,
    "failed": 1
  }
}

📚 Usage Examples

Basic Request

const response = await fetch('/api/stocks/prices', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    symbols: ['AAPL', 'GOOGL', 'MSFT']
  })
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.results);

With Error Handling

try {
  const response = await fetch('/api/stocks/prices', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
    body: JSON.stringify({ symbols: ['AAPL', 'TSLA'] })
  });

  if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`HTTP error! status: ${response.status}`);
  }

  const data = await response.json();
  
  // Process successful results
  const successfulQuotes = data.results.filter(result => result.success);
  successfulQuotes.forEach(quote => {
    console.log(`${quote.symbol}: $${quote.price}`);
  });

  // Handle failed requests
  const failedQuotes = data.results.filter(result => !result.success);
  failedQuotes.forEach(quote => {
    console.error(`Failed to fetch ${quote.symbol}: ${quote.error}`);
  });

} catch (error) {
  console.error('API request failed:', error);
}

React Hook Example

import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';

function useStockPrices(symbols) {
  const [data, setData] = useState(null);
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);
  const [error, setError] = useState(null);

  useEffect(() => {
    if (!symbols?.length) return;

    setLoading(true);
    setError(null);

    fetch('/api/stocks/prices', {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
      body: JSON.stringify({ symbols })
    })
    .then(res => res.json())
    .then(setData)
    .catch(setError)
    .finally(() => setLoading(false));
  }, [symbols]);

  return { data, loading, error };
}

🌍 Supported Markets

US Stocks

• Format: AAPL, GOOGL, MSFT
• Exchange: Automatically mapped to Yahoo Finance symbols

Indian Stocks (NSE)

• Format: RELIANCE, TCS, HDFCBANK
• Auto-mapping: Automatically adds .NS suffix
• Supported symbols:
  • RELIANCE → RELIANCE.NS
  • TCS → TCS.NS
  • HDFCBANK → HDFCBANK.NS
  • INFY → INFY.NS
  • ICICIBANK → ICICIBANK.NS
  • And more...

Manual Exchange Specification

{
  "symbols": [
    "AAPL",           // US stock
    "RELIANCE.NS",    // Indian NSE
    "RELIANCE.BO"     // Indian BSE
  ]
}

⚙️ Configuration

Concurrency Settings

Modify the ConcurrencyQueue initialization in the API route:

// Conservative (safer for rate limits)
const queue = new ConcurrencyQueue(2, 500);

// Balanced (default)
const queue = new ConcurrencyQueue(3, 200);

// Aggressive (faster but riskier)
const queue = new ConcurrencyQueue(5, 100);

Parameters

• maxConcurrency: Number of simultaneous requests (1-5 recommended)
• requestDelay: Milliseconds between request batches (100-500ms recommended)

🚨 Error Handling

Request Validation Errors

{
  "error": "Symbols must be an array",
  "status": 400
}

Rate Limiting

{
  "results": [
    {
      "symbol": "AAPL",
      "success": false,
      "error": "Request timeout after 8000ms for AAPL"
    }
  ]
}

Server Errors

{
  "error": "Internal server error while processing stock prices",
  "requestId": "1640995200000"
}

📏 API Limits

• Maximum symbols per request: 10
• Request timeout: 8 seconds per symbol
• Concurrency limit: 3 simultaneous requests
• Rate limiting: 200ms delay between batches

🔧 Development

Project Structure

app/
├── api/
│   └── stocks/
│       └── prices/
│           └── route.ts    # Main API endpoint

Local Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start development server
npm run dev

# Test the API
curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/api/stocks/prices \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"symbols":["AAPL","GOOGL"]}'

Testing

# Test with curl
curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/api/stocks/prices \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"symbols":["AAPL","GOOGL","MSFT","RELIANCE","TCS"]}'

🐛 Troubleshooting

Common Issues

1. "Request timeout" errors

• Yahoo Finance might be slow or unreachable
• Try reducing concurrency or increasing delay

2. "Invalid symbol" errors

• Verify symbol exists on Yahoo Finance
• Check if exchange suffix is needed (e.g., .NS for Indian stocks)

3. Rate limiting

• Reduce concurrency limit
• Increase delay between requests
• Implement exponential backoff for retries

Debug Logging

The API includes comprehensive error logging:

console.error('Failed to fetch quote for SYMBOL:', {
  symbol,
  yahooSymbol,
  error: error.message,
  timestamp: new Date().toISOString()
});

📄 License

MIT License - feel free to use in your projects!

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make your changes
4. Add tests if applicable
5. Submit a pull request

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Built with ❤️ using Next.js and Yahoo Finance API