Currently, the API here: https://kite.trade/docs/connect/v1/#retrieving-full-instrument-list retrieves a very large amount of data. This turns out to be very expensive, even if done only once a day on hosted backend solutions for mobile applications (for personal use) when we might just be interested in some 5 or 6 instruments.
Could you please provide the same instrument details in a separate API which allows calling it for one instrument at a time taking in the trading symbol and exchange as parameters? (similar to how it is for the retrieving market quotes API) .
@Kailash , I was not referring to the size, which is fine. But the number of entries which currently is > 60,000. As an example, if we are using Google AppEngine as our backend, it restricts number of datastore entity writes to 20,000 per day (in the free quota). Hence, this request.
Ah yes, understood. We'll do something about this.
For the time being, you can pass the exchange name to the /instruments call to retrieve the list for just that exchange. eg: /instruments/NSE , /instruments/NFO etc.
For the time being, you can pass the exchange name to the /instruments call to retrieve the list for just that exchange. eg: /instruments/NSE , /instruments/NFO etc.