First time user question...is it possible to use through my own machine instead of a browser?

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First time user question...is it possible to use through my own machine instead of a browser?

posted Sep 23, 2020

While using this platform in the cloud looks like an easier solution, I am wondering if I can access the data through jupyter lab on my own machine. I am not interested in intra-day pricing, just end of day. Is there not an external API package for python? Is the only way to use quantopian through the browser?

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Tentor Testivis

It's definitely possible, check out their Github page (zipline is what basically runs the backtester on Q).
However, it's quite a bit of work to get it all to run depending on what you intend to do. To set up the backtester you might want to check out this Sentdex tutorial.
Good Luck!

Thank you. Although it looks like zipline only works with Python version 3.5. I am using 3.7.

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