Full Tape
Download all option transactions (the “full tape”) for a given trading date.
To filter option transactions for the current trading day use the Option Trades endpoint.
For real time streaming of option trades, subscribe to the option_trades websocket channel, see https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs/websocket/option-trades.
How far back you can download is determined by your plan’s historical lookback window with data available since 2022-01-01.
If you are looking to build a data lake with the full tape use this skill with your agent: https://unusualwhales.com/skills/uw-options-data-lake-skill.md
You can download the data as a zip file using wget. For example, to download data for Fri Jul 25th, 2025, if your API key is “abc123”:
wget --header="Authorization: Bearer abc123" https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/option-trades/full-tape/2025-07-25 -O full_tape_20257225.zip
