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Using our own data sources

If we want to develop an algorithm that uses data sources that are not already available on the Quantopian platform, how would we go about doing this? For example, the algorithm may want to retrieve data using urllib2, but that is not one of the libraries that we can import currently on Quantopian. Please let us know the proper way for doing this. Thanks.

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Fetcher is probably what you're looking for:

https://www.quantopian.com/help

Look for: Developing in the IDE - Fetcher