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Can I get get a single intraday price at a specific time using get_pricing()?

I am using get_pricing() to get intraday quotes, and I notice that this is the performance bottleneck in my code. I am interested in getting the price at a specific time of day, eg: 2:30 PM EST. I am currently using get_pricing(..., frequency='minute', ...) to get all 390 intraday prices per day, then using at_time('14:30') to filter down to the single price I'm interested in. In the interest of improving performance, is there a way to retrieve just the '14:30' quote each day using get_pricing()?

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The current price methods only return a range of datetimes and not a specific time across several dates. Using the pandas at_time method, as you did, is probably your best approach.

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