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Carbon Arc

Carbon Arc is an alternative-data exchange: card spend, foot traffic, app usage, web traffic and similar consumer signals for companies, tickers, brands and places, bought by the slice and paid for from a token balance.

Authentication

  • API token

Actions

  • Buy frameworkPurchase a framework — one insight for a set of entities, cut by filters.
  • Download transcriptGet a download link for a transcript the account has purchased, as text or PDF.
  • Get balanceRead the Carbon Arc account's token balance — total, promotional and purchased — and when promotional tokens expire.
  • Get entityRead one Carbon Arc entity: its full name, representation and domain, and, where the representation carries them, its ticker, sector and industry.
  • Get framework dataRead the rows of a framework the account has already bought — at no further charge.
  • Get framework filtersList the filters a framework — one insight read for a set of entities — can be cut by: the date and location resolutions it supports, the date span its data covers, any filters its data asset adds (with their allowed values), and the aggregate methods it accepts.
  • Get framework statusCheck whether purchased frameworks have newer data: for each id, when the framework and its insight were last refreshed or reinstated, and whether a refresh or reinstatement is available to buy.
  • List entity insightsList the insights — alternative-data metrics such as card spend, foot traffic, app downloads or web visits — that Carbon Arc holds for one entity.
  • List ordersList the account's past purchases — frameworks and transcripts — newest first, with what each cost and the framework ids it bought.
  • List transcriptsBrowse the expert-interview transcripts the account may buy, filtered by ticker, entity, region, type, interview date or text, with each one's price and whether it is already purchased.
  • Purchase transcriptBuy one expert-interview transcript.
  • Quote frameworkPrice a framework — one insight for a set of entities, cut by filters — without buying it.
  • Search entitiesFind Carbon Arc entities — companies, tickers, brands, products, apps, places — by name or ticker, and get the entityid and entityrepresentation every other action takes.
  • Search insightsSearch Carbon Arc's insight catalog — every alternative-data metric, KPI, market-share and cohort series — by keyword, type, subject or topic, optionally only those an entity has.

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