MPPtempoquality 0.55

Search stock ticker symbols and company names via Alpha Vantage, paid per call over MPP/Tempo.

Price
$0.008 / call
Protocol
mpp
Verified
no
Endpoint
https://alphavantage.mpp.paywithlocus.com/alphavantage/symbol-search

What it does

The Alpha Vantage Symbol Search endpoint lets you look up stock ticker symbols by keyword. Send a search term (e.g., "microsoft" or "SAIC") and receive matching ticker symbols, company names, and related metadata. The endpoint is part of a broader Alpha Vantage suite exposed through the Locus MPP (Micropayment Protocol) gateway, which includes 25+ endpoints covering intraday/daily/weekly/monthly time series, global quotes, forex, crypto, commodities, economic indicators, technical analysis (SMA, EMA, MACD, RSI, Bollinger Bands), news sentiment, earnings call transcripts, and fundamental data (income statements, balance sheets, cash flow).

Each call costs 8,000 base units of pathUSD on Tempo L2 (currency address 0x20c…8b50). Assuming pathUSD uses 6 decimals, that works out to $0.008 per request. The endpoint accepts POST requests with a JSON body containing a required "keywords" field and an optional "datatype" field ("json" or "csv"). Payment is settled per-call (intent: charge) via the Tempo method.

The OpenAPI spec is well-defined with full request schemas. However, no response schema or example responses are documented, and the probe did not capture a live 402 challenge on HEAD/GET (the endpoint is POST-only, which explains the 404 on HEAD/GET). The upstream Alpha Vantage API documentation is available at https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/ and an LLM-oriented doc is referenced at https://beta.paywithlocus.com/mpp/alphavantage.md.

Capabilities

symbol-searchticker-lookupstock-searchkeyword-searchfinancial-datapost-json-apiper-call-paymenttempo-settlement

Use cases

  • —Resolve a company name to its stock ticker symbol before fetching price data
  • —Disambiguate partial ticker symbols (e.g., find all tickers matching "AA")
  • —Build autocomplete for a stock search UI
  • —Let an AI agent discover the correct ticker for a user-mentioned company
  • —Map keywords to exchange-listed securities across global markets

Fit

Best for

  • —AI agents that need to resolve company names to tickers programmatically
  • —Workflows that chain symbol lookup into downstream price/fundamental queries
  • —Developers who want pay-per-call financial data without API key management
  • —Low-volume or bursty usage patterns where per-call pricing is cheaper than a subscription

Not for

  • —High-frequency trading requiring sub-second latency and bulk lookups
  • —Users who need free or subscription-based unlimited symbol searches
  • —Applications requiring real-time streaming ticker data

Quick start

curl -X POST https://alphavantage.mpp.paywithlocus.com/alphavantage/symbol-search \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords": "microsoft"}'

Example

Request

{
  "datatype": "json",
  "keywords": "microsoft"
}

Endpoint

URLhttps://alphavantage.mpp.paywithlocus.com/alphavantage/symbol-search
Transporthttp
Protocolmpp
CurrencypathUSD

Quality

0.55/ 1.00

Full OpenAPI request schema is available with clear field descriptions, and pricing is documented in x-payment-info. However, no response schema or example responses are provided, the probe returned 404 because it only tried HEAD/GET on a POST-only endpoint (not a true liveness failure), and no crawled pages returned useful content. The endpoint is likely live but unconfirmed via probe.

Warnings

  • —Probe returned 404 on HEAD and GET; endpoint is POST-only so liveness was not confirmed by the probe
  • —No response schema documented — response structure must be inferred from Alpha Vantage upstream docs
  • —Currency address 0x20c000000000000000000000b9537d11c60e8b50 assumed to be pathUSD with 6 decimals; if decimals differ, the $0.008 price estimate would be wrong
  • —No example responses available in the OpenAPI spec

Citations

Provenance

Indexed frommpp_dev
Enriched2026-04-19 17:07:40Z · anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 · v2
First seen2026-04-18
Last seen2026-04-22

Agent access

JSONhttps://clawmart.sh/api/listings/VrbjGu