> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://api-portal.etoro.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Get an instrument's identity > **Rate limit:** 60 requests per 60 seconds. This is the **default shared quota** — it is shared with every other endpoint that has no dedicated limit, so requests across those endpoints all draw from the same budget. --- Returns the canonical identity of a single tradable instrument - its numeric instrument ID, ticker symbol, and display name - served from the eToro data platform's published instrument catalog. This is catalog data: it is identical for every caller and carries no account, position, or personal information, so no user context is sent upstream. Visibility and completeness are decided by the published view behind this endpoint, not by the endpoint itself, which is why a hidden, incomplete, or genuinely nonexistent instrument all return the same 404 rather than distinguishable errors. Look the ID up first via the market-data instrument endpoints if you only have a symbol. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json get /api/v1/data/instruments/{instrumentId}/identity openapi: 3.0.1 info: title: eToro Api version: v1.375.0 description: >- eToro’s public API provides access to real-time financial data, trading insights, and account management features, allowing developers to integrate eToro’s services into their applications. With access to market prices, historical data, and social trading information, the API empowers users to enhance their trading strategies. Designed for security and scalability, the eToro API ensures smooth and reliable integration for a variety of financial applications. For more details on integrating with eToro's public WebSocket service, please refer to the dedicated [WebSocket documentation](./websocket/websocket-doc.html). ## Authentication Every request must be authenticated with exactly one of two options: an OAuth 2.0 access token (`Authorization: Bearer `), or the non-interactive credential pair (`x-api-key` + `x-user-key` headers). The two options are mutually exclusive — a request carrying both is rejected. Each operation lists the OAuth scopes that grant access as alternative security requirements: a bearer token needs only ONE of them, and the same permissions govern the credential pair. servers: - url: https://public-api.etoro.com description: eToro Public API security: - apiKeyAuth: [] userKeyAuth: [] - oauth2: [] tags: - name: Agent Portfolios - name: Social Feeds - name: Balances - name: Clubs - name: Watchlists - name: Data - name: Top Assets - name: App Data - name: Market Data - name: Identity - name: Cash Accounts - name: Transfer - name: Notifications - name: PI Data - name: PortfolioSearch - name: Price Alerts - name: SSO - Applications - name: SSO - Scopes - name: Sub-Accounts - eToro Trading - name: Sub-Accounts - name: Trading - Demo - name: Trading - Real - name: Users Info - name: Rankings - name: User Stats - name: Copy Trading - name: Copy Trading - Demo paths: /api/v1/data/instruments/{instrumentId}/identity: get: tags: - Data summary: Get an instrument's identity description: >- **Rate limit:** 60 requests per 60 seconds. This is the **default shared quota** — it is shared with every other endpoint that has no dedicated limit, so requests across those endpoints all draw from the same budget. --- Returns the canonical identity of a single tradable instrument - its numeric instrument ID, ticker symbol, and display name - served from the eToro data platform's published instrument catalog. This is catalog data: it is identical for every caller and carries no account, position, or personal information, so no user context is sent upstream. Visibility and completeness are decided by the published view behind this endpoint, not by the endpoint itself, which is why a hidden, incomplete, or genuinely nonexistent instrument all return the same 404 rather than distinguishable errors. Look the ID up first via the market-data instrument endpoints if you only have a symbol. operationId: getInstrumentIdentity parameters: - name: x-request-id in: header required: true schema: type: string format: uuid example: 15c0970d-e4c3-4faa-800a-06d31d882d96 description: A unique request identifier. example: 15c0970d-e4c3-4faa-800a-06d31d882d96 - name: instrumentId in: path required: true description: >- eToro's numeric instrument identifier. Must be a non-negative 32-bit integer with no sign, decimal point, or whitespace; anything else is rejected with 400 before the catalog is queried. schema: type: integer format: int32 minimum: 0 maximum: 2147483647 example: 1001 responses: '200': description: The instrument's identity. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/InstrumentIdentity' example: instrumentId: 1001 symbol: AAPL instrumentDisplayName: Apple headers: RateLimit-Limit: description: >- Maximum number of requests allowed per window. This is the default shared pool used by every endpoint without a dedicated limit, so it is NOT per-endpoint — requests across those endpoints all draw from this one budget. schema: type: integer example: 60 RateLimit-Remaining: description: Requests remaining in the current window for this quota. schema: type: integer RateLimit-Reset: description: Seconds until the current window resets. schema: type: integer RateLimit-Policy: description: Quota policy in the form `;w=`. schema: type: string example: 60;w=60 '400': description: '`instrumentId` is not a plain non-negative 32-bit integer.' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DataApiError' example: error: code: invalid_instrument_id message: instrumentId must be a positive 32-bit integer requestId: 3f6c1b7e-9a41-4c2e-8f0d-1b2a3c4d5e6f '404': description: >- No instrument identity is published for this ID. Returned identically whether the instrument does not exist, is not publicly visible, or has an incomplete catalog record. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DataApiError' example: error: code: instrument_not_found message: Instrument identity was not found requestId: 3f6c1b7e-9a41-4c2e-8f0d-1b2a3c4d5e6f '429': description: >- Too Many Requests — the shared rate limit (60 requests / 60s) was exceeded. headers: RateLimit-Limit: description: >- Maximum number of requests allowed per window. This is the default shared pool used by every endpoint without a dedicated limit, so it is NOT per-endpoint — requests across those endpoints all draw from this one budget. schema: type: integer example: 60 RateLimit-Remaining: description: Requests remaining in the current window for this quota. schema: type: integer RateLimit-Reset: description: Seconds until the current window resets. schema: type: integer RateLimit-Policy: description: Quota policy in the form `;w=`. schema: type: string example: 60;w=60 Retry-After: description: Seconds to wait before retrying. schema: type: integer example: 60 '500': description: The catalog returned an inconsistent result for this ID. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DataApiError' example: error: code: data_integrity_error message: The requested resource could not be resolved requestId: 3f6c1b7e-9a41-4c2e-8f0d-1b2a3c4d5e6f '503': description: >- The catalog serving dependency is temporarily unavailable; the upstream already retried with backoff before returning this. Safe to retry. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DataApiError' example: error: code: dependency_unavailable message: The requested resource is temporarily unavailable requestId: 3f6c1b7e-9a41-4c2e-8f0d-1b2a3c4d5e6f security: - apiKeyAuth: [] userKeyAuth: [] - oauth2: - etoro-public:real:read - oauth2: - etoro-public:demo:read - oauth2: - etoro-public:market-data:read components: schemas: InstrumentIdentity: type: object description: Canonical identity of one instrument. properties: instrumentId: type: integer format: int32 description: >- eToro's numeric instrument identifier. Echoes the value supplied in the path. example: 1001 symbol: type: string description: The instrument's ticker symbol. example: AAPL instrumentDisplayName: type: string description: Human-readable instrument name as shown in eToro clients. example: Apple required: - instrumentId - symbol - instrumentDisplayName DataApiError: type: object description: >- Error envelope returned by the data platform upstream. `requestId` is the correlation id for that call and is the fastest way for eToro support to find the request in logs. properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string description: Stable machine-readable error code. message: type: string description: >- Human-readable description. Not intended for display to end users. required: - code - message requestId: type: string nullable: true description: Correlation id for this request. required: - error securitySchemes: apiKeyAuth: type: apiKey in: header name: x-api-key description: >- API key of the application. Only valid together with the x-user-key header — the pair is an alternative to OAuth bearer authentication, never sent alongside it. The pair is granted the same permissions the operation's OAuth scopes describe. Demo credential for trying the API from these docs: `lhgfaslk21490FAScVPkdsb53F9dNkfHG4faZSG5vfjndfcfgdssdgsdHF4663` x-default: lhgfaslk21490FAScVPkdsb53F9dNkfHG4faZSG5vfjndfcfgdssdgsdHF4663 userKeyAuth: type: apiKey in: header name: x-user-key description: >- User-specific authentication key. Only valid together with the x-api-key header — the pair is an alternative to OAuth bearer authentication, never sent alongside it. Demo credential for trying the API from these docs: `eyJlYW4iOiJVbnJlZ2lzdGVyZWRBcHBsaWNhdGlvbiIsImVrIjoiOE5sZ2cwcW5EUVdROUFNWGpXT2lmOWktZnpidG5KcUlqWGJ3WHJZZkpZcldrbG90ZEhvLVBjSWhQaU8xU1ZtMW84aU1WZGZqN2xWNzFjLXFxLmcybXE1dnh4Q1hUT25xaWRUaTFlcEhmVk1fIn0_` x-default: >- eyJlYW4iOiJVbnJlZ2lzdGVyZWRBcHBsaWNhdGlvbiIsImVrIjoiOE5sZ2cwcW5EUVdROUFNWGpXT2lmOWktZnpidG5KcUlqWGJ3WHJZZkpZcldrbG90ZEhvLVBjSWhQaU8xU1ZtMW84aU1WZGZqN2xWNzFjLXFxLmcybXE1dnh4Q1hUT25xaWRUaTFlcEhmVk1fIn0_ oauth2: type: oauth2 description: >- eToro OAuth2 — send the access token as `Authorization: Bearer `. Each operation lists the scopes that grant access as separate `security` requirements (OpenAPI OR semantics): the caller's token only needs ONE of them — you do NOT need all of them. Mutually exclusive with the x-api-key/x-user-key credential pair: never send both. flows: authorizationCode: authorizationUrl: https://www.etoro.com/sso tokenUrl: https://www.etoro.com/api/sso/v1/token scopes: etoro-public:agent-portfolio:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:agent-portfolio:read' scope. etoro-public:agent-portfolio:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:agent-portfolio:write' scope. etoro-public:club:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:club:read' scope. etoro-public:demo:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:demo:read' scope. etoro-public:demo:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:demo:write' scope. etoro-public:feed:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:feed:read' scope. etoro-public:feed:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:feed:write' scope. etoro-public:market-data:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:market-data:read' scope. etoro-public:money.balance:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:money.balance:read' scope. etoro-public:money.cash-transactions:read: >- Grants access to the 'etoro-public:money.cash-transactions:read' scope. etoro-public:money.transfer:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:money.transfer:read' scope. etoro-public:money.transfer:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:money.transfer:write' scope. etoro-public:money:transfer: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:money:transfer' scope. etoro-public:notifications:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:notifications:read' scope. etoro-public:notifications:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:notifications:write' scope. etoro-public:pi-data:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:pi-data:read' scope. etoro-public:price-alerts:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:price-alerts:read' scope. etoro-public:price-alerts:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:price-alerts:write' scope. etoro-public:real:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:real:read' scope. etoro-public:real:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:real:write' scope. etoro-public:sso-applications:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:sso-applications:read' scope. etoro-public:sso-applications:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:sso-applications:write' scope. etoro-public:sso-scopes:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:sso-scopes:read' scope. etoro-public:sso-scopes:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:sso-scopes:write' scope. etoro-public:sub-accounts:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:sub-accounts:read' scope. etoro-public:sub-accounts:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:sub-accounts:write' scope. etoro-public:trade.demo:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:trade.demo:read' scope. etoro-public:trade.demo:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:trade.demo:write' scope. etoro-public:trade.real:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:trade.real:read' scope. etoro-public:trade.real:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:trade.real:write' scope. etoro-public:user-info:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:user-info:read' scope. etoro-public:watchlist:read: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:watchlist:read' scope. etoro-public:watchlist:write: Grants access to the 'etoro-public:watchlist:write' scope. ````