> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://alphacastio.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Alphacast: Financial Data Analytics for Everyone

> Alphacast is a financial data analytics platform for managing datasets and connecting to global data providers via API.

Alphacast is a financial data analytics platform that lets you collect and distribute economic and financial data at scale. Whether you are pulling macro indicators from the Federal Reserve or uploading your own proprietary datasets, Alphacast gives you a single API to manage the full data lifecycle — from ingestion through to download.

## What you can do with Alphacast

With the Alphacast API you can:

* **Manage datasets** — create, update, and delete datasets within organized repositories
* **Connect to 30+ external data providers** — including FRED, BLS, World Bank, OECD, IMF, BIS, ECB, Eurostat, and central banks across Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Browse the live catalog at [alphacast.io/explore/apis](https://www.alphacast.io/explore/apis).
* **Download data in multiple formats** — export any dataset as CSV, JSON, XLSX, or TSV

All API requests are authenticated with an API key that you generate from your account settings at [alphacast.io](https://alphacast.io). Requests can be authenticated via HTTP Basic Auth or a query parameter — both approaches are covered in the authentication guide.

The base URL for all API requests is `https://api.alphacast.io`.

## Get started

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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="bolt" href="/quickstart">
    Create a repository, upload a dataset, and download data in minutes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Authentication" icon="key" href="/authentication">
    Learn how to authenticate every request with your API key.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Repositories" icon="folder" href="/concepts/repositories">
    Understand how repositories organize your datasets and control access.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API reference" icon="code" href="/api/overview">
    Explore every endpoint, parameter, and response schema.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Python SDK" icon="python" href="/python-sdk/overview">
    Manage repositories and datasets directly from Python — no HTTP required.
  </Card>
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