# Full Tape

`GET` `https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/option-trades/full-tape/{date}`

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](https://api.unusualwhales.com/docs/operations/PublicApi.OptionTradeController.index).

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
```


## Authentication

```
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
```

## Path Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|------|------|----------|-------------|
| `date` | Market Date | Yes | A trading date in the format of YYYY-MM-DD.
 |



## Example

### curl

```bash
curl -X GET "https://api.unusualwhales.com/api/option-trades/full-tape/{date}" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"
```

### Python

```python
import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.unusualwhales.com")
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY", "Accept": "application/json"}
conn.request("GET", "/api/option-trades/full-tape/{date}", headers=headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
print(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
```

## Response Example

```json
{}
```