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I am unsure if this early to ask, appreciate if you could expose an optional parameter to verify if the data for a specific ticker is updated or not.

Let me explain this in detail; suppose a user makes an API call to retrieve the ownership details of Tesla (TSLA). The call was made on 1-Jan-2021. Very next day, the same user makes an API call to retrieve TSLA ownership details, and gets the same response as prior day.

To avoid this, if the user is provided an option to send a date parameter, as to when they made the prior ownership API call, along with the ticker name. In your database if the ownership data haven't changed after the user requested date, the response could simple be like "Unchanged".

The pros to this approach would be

1. Less number of hits to your database
2. Lower data transfer costs
3. Improved response time for the API calls

Lastly if there been an option to send batch requests for multiple stock tickers, that would be nice to have and would save some round about time.

Would love to see the Fintel API going GA soon. All the very best team Fintel API.