# Public Trading API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/public/public-trading-api/  
**Provider:** Public — https://apis.io/providers/public/  
**Base URL:** https://api.public.com  
**Documentation:** https://public.com/api/docs

Public Trading API is published by [Public](https://apis.io/providers/public/) on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Trading, Market Data, Brokerage, Options, and Crypto. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a quickstart, authentication docs, and a changelog.

REST API for programmatic trading on Public — manage brokerage accounts, pull portfolio and transaction history, retrieve market data (quotes, bars, option chains, greeks), and place, replace, and cancel equity, crypto, and multi-leg options orders. Authentication exchanges a long-lived secret key for a short-lived bearer JWT access token.

## Machine-readable artifacts (7)

- **Documentation** — https://public.com/api/docs
- **Quickstart** — https://public.com/api/docs/quickstart
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/public/refs/heads/main/authentication/public-authentication.yml
- **OAuthScopes** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/public/refs/heads/main/scopes/public-scopes.yml
- **ChangeLog** — https://public.com/api/docs/changelog
- **SDKs** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/public/refs/heads/main/packages/public-packages.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/public/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Tags

Trading, Market Data, Brokerage, Options, Crypto

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/public/public-trading-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/public/.