I build algorithmic trading bots as a side project. Nothing fancy — just small strategies that trade US equity options automatically. The problem I kept running into wasn't the strategy logic. It was the data. Every time I wanted to pull real-time options chains, Greeks, or IV, I had two options: Pay 99+/motoadataproviderScrapesomethingIprobablyshouldn′tbescrapingNeitherfeltrightforahobbyistproject.SoIbuiltMarket−Options—asimpleRESTAPIforUSequityoptionsdataat99+/mo to a data provider Scrape something I probably shouldn't be scraping Neither felt right for a hobbyist project. So I built Market-Options — a simple REST API for US equity options data at 2