Hi, Any ways to get 2-3 years of Dow & S&P 500 futures 1-min historical data

[nooby_mcnoob]

I don't know. I would write the software for this job myself, using Java (I use Netbeans as IDE on an Ubuntu Linux computer). It is not that hard if you already have some experience in using IB's API.
Step 1: connect to IB
Step 2: get a list of all contract codes for the Dow futures contracts, including expired contracts.
Step 3: for each contract download the entire historical data and save to file.
Step 4: get a list of all contract codes for the S&P 500 futures contracts, including expired contracts.
Step 5: for each contract download the entire historical data and save to file.
Step 6. disconnect from IB.
I'm not sure if the download for one contract can be done in one step, or that the amount of data is too much and that it has to be split up in a few separate downloads.

This is what I ended up doing. Thanks for justifying it for me

 

[HobbyTrading]

This is what I ended up doing. Thanks for justifying it for me

haha, funny. I didn't know you were looking for that data as well, as you are not the topic starter.

 

[nooby_mcnoob]

haha, funny. I didn't know you were looking for that data as well, as you are not the topic starter.

Not the same data, but same source.

 

[ZBZB]

https://www.worldtradingdata.com/pricing/

Intraday data is available on the free level but is limited to 25 requests a day. Here's the support of the intraday data:

Interval (minutes) Supported Range (days)
1 1-7
2 1-30
5 1-30
15 1-30
60 1-30
End of day data generally goes back to the IPO and is encompassed in the total number of daily requests - 250 on the free level.

 

[Amanaki Queen]

You can purchase from data vendors, some used to have free API like https://www.quandl.com/, though they stopped offering free data. You can also try https://www.tickdata.com/, https://www.quantgo.com/, https://www.algoseek.com/ plus so many others, these are just but a few of the vendors who offer intraday data.