Failures to Deliver
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": [
{
"date": "2023-04-10T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "45.75",
"quantity": 1250
},
{
"date": "2023-04-11T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "46.23",
"quantity": 8500
},
{
"date": "2023-04-12T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "45.92",
"quantity": 4200
},
{
"date": "2023-04-13T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "46.45",
"quantity": 780
},
{
"date": "2023-04-14T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "46.78",
"quantity": 1500
},
{
"date": "2023-04-17T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "47.12",
"quantity": 5670
},
{
"date": "2023-04-18T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "47.45",
"quantity": 3200
}
]
}{
"code": "authentication_required",
"documentation_url": "https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs",
"expected_format": "uuid",
"message": "The API token provided is not in the expected format. Unusual Whales API tokens are UUIDs, such as 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000.",
"reason": "malformed_token",
"request_id": "GNI_YTC1CRnw2LACGBvE",
"retryable": false,
"support_email": "[email protected]",
"token_url": "https://unusualwhales.com/dashboard/api"
}{
"code": "missing_access",
"documentation_url": "https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs",
"message": "The API token provided is valid but is not permitted to access this route.",
"reason": "route_not_permitted",
"request_id": "GNI_YTC1CRnw2LACGBvE",
"retryable": false,
"support_email": "[email protected]",
"token_url": "https://unusualwhales.com/dashboard/api"
}{
"msg": "Invalid path input: MSFT12 (valid example: AAPL) - Invalid query input(s): date=2023-02-140 (valid example: date=2024-01-18)",
"path": "/api/darkpool/MSFT12",
"query": "date=2023-02-140",
"url": "localhost:4000/api/darkpool/MSFT12?date=2023-02-140"
}"Something went wrong"short
Failures to Deliver
Returns the short failures to deliver per day for the given ticker starting from the given date. If no date is given, returns the data for the current/last market day.
GET
/
api
/
shorts
/
{ticker}
/
ftds
Failures to Deliver
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'import requests
url = "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
fetch('https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/shorts/{ticker}/ftds")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": [
{
"date": "2023-04-10T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "45.75",
"quantity": 1250
},
{
"date": "2023-04-11T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "46.23",
"quantity": 8500
},
{
"date": "2023-04-12T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "45.92",
"quantity": 4200
},
{
"date": "2023-04-13T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "46.45",
"quantity": 780
},
{
"date": "2023-04-14T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "46.78",
"quantity": 1500
},
{
"date": "2023-04-17T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "47.12",
"quantity": 5670
},
{
"date": "2023-04-18T00:00:00.000Z",
"price": "47.45",
"quantity": 3200
}
]
}{
"code": "authentication_required",
"documentation_url": "https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs",
"expected_format": "uuid",
"message": "The API token provided is not in the expected format. Unusual Whales API tokens are UUIDs, such as 123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000.",
"reason": "malformed_token",
"request_id": "GNI_YTC1CRnw2LACGBvE",
"retryable": false,
"support_email": "[email protected]",
"token_url": "https://unusualwhales.com/dashboard/api"
}{
"code": "missing_access",
"documentation_url": "https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs",
"message": "The API token provided is valid but is not permitted to access this route.",
"reason": "route_not_permitted",
"request_id": "GNI_YTC1CRnw2LACGBvE",
"retryable": false,
"support_email": "[email protected]",
"token_url": "https://unusualwhales.com/dashboard/api"
}{
"msg": "Invalid path input: MSFT12 (valid example: AAPL) - Invalid query input(s): date=2023-02-140 (valid example: date=2024-01-18)",
"path": "/api/darkpool/MSFT12",
"query": "date=2023-02-140",
"url": "localhost:4000/api/darkpool/MSFT12?date=2023-02-140"
}"Something went wrong"Authorizations
Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.
Path Parameters
A single ticker
Example:
"AAPL"
Response
Failures to deliver data for a specific ticker. This endpoint provides information about the number of shares that failed to be delivered as part of the short selling process.
Last modified on September 29, 2026
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