META historical data: 1-minute to daily bars, 2012 to 2026

META is the Meta Platforms, Inc.; it tracks Meta Platforms common stock. MarketParquet holds META as a US stock with 1-minute, 5-minute, 30-minute, 1-hour and daily OHLCV bars from 2012-05-21 to 2026-09-11 (3,598 daily bars), split-adjusted (dividends not embedded), as one Parquet file per trading day.

META (formerly Facebook) has one of the most studied large-cap drawdown-and-recovery paths, from its 2012 IPO onward.

META at a glance

InstrumentMeta Platforms, Inc. (META)
Asset classStock
First bar2012-05-21
Latest bar2026-09-11
Daily bars3,598
Timeframes1-minute, 5-minute, 30-minute, 1-hour, daily
Adjustmentsplit-adjusted (dividends not embedded)
TimezoneUS/Eastern bar open time; intraday files include pre-market and after-hours bars where available
FormatApache Parquet, one file per trading day containing every Stock symbol

Sample: META 30-minute bars on 2026-09-16

The first regular-session bars from the newest 30-minute file, read live from the archive. Prices are the values as published; the full session has many more rows.

timestampopenhighlowclosevolume
09:30679.90685.31674.29681.322,631,404
10:00681.13681.22678.16679.82726,794
10:30679.74680.50677.26679.34622,254
11:00679.20679.98676.06676.36561,272
11:30676.36679.10675.18677.45431,604
12:00677.41677.75675.33676.40354,673
12:30676.47677.51675.34676.50246,985
13:00676.51677.30675.80676.35275,029

Open the full 2026-09-16 preview for META

Corporate actions in the changelog

No split adjustment for META appears in the published changelog, which lists every repair applied since it began. Earlier splits are already reflected in the archive: META prices are split-adjusted (dividends not embedded), so bars before any historical split sit on today's share basis. Dividends are deliberately not embedded; see data quality.

Load META in Python

Files are partitioned by trading day, so pulling one symbol means filtering across files. DuckDB reads the whole daily history in one statement; union_by_name and the COALESCE cover the older daily files, which carry a timestamp column where newer ones carry date:

  import duckdb

  meta = duckdb.sql("""
      SELECT COALESCE(date, CAST(timestamp AS DATE)) AS date,
             open, high, low, close, volume
      FROM read_parquet('by_date/stock_daily/*/*.parquet', union_by_name=true)
      WHERE symbol = 'META'
      ORDER BY 1
  """).df()

Intraday files all share one schema, so Polars can scan a year of 5-minute bars lazily and keep only META:

  import polars as pl

  bars = (
      pl.scan_parquet("by_date/stock_5min/2025/*.parquet")
        .filter(pl.col("symbol") == "META")
        .select(["timestamp", "open", "high", "low", "close", "volume"])
        .sort("timestamp")
        .collect()
  )

Timestamps are US/Eastern bar open times. The Polars guide, the DuckDB guide and the backtrader guide take it from here: multi-year loads, resampling and feeding a backtest engine.

Available Stock files

TimeframeFilesDate range
1-Min6,8032000-01-03 to 2026-09-16
5-Min6,8032000-01-03 to 2026-09-16
30-Min6,8032000-01-03 to 2026-09-16
1-Hour6,8032000-01-03 to 2026-09-16
Daily6,8312000-01-03 to 2026-09-16

Every file holds all Stock symbols for that day, META included.

Get META data

Free: a free account can download roughly the last year of daily Stock files, which include META, from the daily browse page or by API key. Complete Archive: every timeframe and the full history back to 2012-05-21 for META and every other symbol, $79 one-time.

> Download the free daily sample > See pricing

FAQ

Is META history split-adjusted?

Yes. Prices are split-adjusted so the series is continuous across splits; dividends are not embedded, which keeps the bars equal to the prices that actually traded.

How far back does META go?

The first META bar in the archive is dated 2012-05-21 and the newest is 2026-09-11. New sessions are added the same night, typically by midnight ET.

What timezone are the intraday bars in?

US/Eastern. Regular hours are 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM ET; 1-minute files also carry pre-market from 4:00 AM and after-hours to 8:00 PM where trades occurred.

Can I download only META?

Files are per day, not per symbol, so you download the daily or intraday files for the dates you need and filter on symbol == "META". A year of daily files is small; the snippets above do the filtering in one pass.

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