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🆓 Free Testing Quick Reference
TL;DR: You can test everything for $0
Already Working (PR1 )
- Price data:
yfinance(free, unlimited) - Unit tests: Mocked data in
tests/(15 passing tests) - Coverage: 87% without any paid APIs
For PR2 (Congressional Trades) - FREE Options
Best Option: House Stock Watcher
# No API key needed, just scrape their public JSON
curl https://housestockwatcher.com/api/all_transactions
- Cost: $0
- Rate limit: None (reasonable scraping)
- Data: Live congressional trades (House + Senate)
- Quality: Community-maintained, very reliable
Backup: Quiver Quantitative Free Tier
# Sign up for free at quiverquant.com
# Add to .env:
QUIVERQUANT_API_KEY=your_free_key
- Cost: $0
- Rate limit: 500 API calls/month (enough for testing)
- Data: Congress + Senate trades + insider trades
Testing Strategy (Zero Cost)
# 1. Unit tests (always free, use mocks)
make test
# 2. Integration tests with fixtures (real data shape, no network)
pytest tests/ -m integration
# 3. Live smoke test with free APIs
python scripts/fetch_house_watcher_sample.py # We'll build this in PR2
What You DON'T Need to Pay For
QuiverQuant Pro ($30/mo) - free tier is enough for dev/testing Financial Modeling Prep paid tier - free tier works Any paid database hosting - SQLite works great locally Any cloud services - runs 100% locally
When You MIGHT Want Paid (Way Later)
- Production-grade rate limits (thousands of requests/day)
- Historical data >2 years back
- Multiple concurrent users on a dashboard
- Commercial use (check each API's terms)
**For personal research? Stay free forever. **
See docs/06_free_testing_data.md for full details.