GET 
/market/change-oi

Change in Open Interest (OI)

API for retrieving the change in Open Interest per strike price for an underlying asset over a specified number of days. It accepts the instrument key, expiry, date, and interval, and returns the net OI change at each strike for both calls and puts — positive values indicate new positions being built, negative values indicate unwinding.

Request

curl --location 'https://api.upstox.com/v2/market/change-oi?instrument_key=NSE_INDEX%7CNifty%2050&expiry=2026-05-29&date=2026-05-07&interval=2' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {your_access_token}'

For additional samples in various languages, please refer to the Sample code section on this page.

Query Parameters

Name	Required	Description
instrument_key	Required	Underlying asset instrument key. For the regex pattern applicable to this field, see the Field Pattern Appendix.
expiry	Required	Expiry date of the option contract in YYYY-MM-DD format.
date	Required	Date for which Change in OI data is required, in YYYY-MM-DD format.
interval	Required	Number of days over which the OI difference is calculated.

Responses

200

Response body

{
  "status": "success",
  "data": {
    "total_put_change_oi": 2500000,
    "total_call_change_oi": -1800000,
    "spot_closing_price": 24450.75,
    "expiry": "2026-05-29",
    "call_put_oi_data_list": [
      {
        "strike_price": 24000.0,
        "call_change_oi": -120000,
        "put_change_oi": 350000
      },
      {
        "strike_price": 24500.0,
        "call_change_oi": 280000,
        "put_change_oi": -150000
      }
    ]
  }
}

Name	Type	Description
status	string	Outcome of the request. Typically success for successful operations.
data	object	Change in OI data object.
data.total_put_change_oi	integer	Net change in put OI across all strikes.
data.total_call_change_oi	integer	Net change in call OI across all strikes.
data.spot_closing_price	number	Closing spot price of the underlying asset.
data.expiry	string	Expiry date of the option contract.
data.call_put_oi_data_list	array	Change in OI data for each strike price.
data.call_put_oi_data_list[].strike_price	number	Strike price.
data.call_put_oi_data_list[].call_change_oi	integer	Change in call OI at this strike. Negative values indicate OI unwinding.
data.call_put_oi_data_list[].put_change_oi	integer	Change in put OI at this strike. Negative values indicate OI unwinding.

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Error codes

Error code	Description
UDAPI100011	Invalid instrument_key — The provided instrument_key is invalid or not found.
UDAPI1202	Invalid expiry date format — The expiry parameter must be in YYYY-MM-DD format.
UDAPI1203	Invalid date format — The date parameter must be in YYYY-MM-DD format.
UDAPI1204	Invalid interval — The interval value is not accepted.

Sample Code

Get Change in OI data

Curl

curl --location 'https://api.upstox.com/v2/market/change-oi?instrument_key=NSE_INDEX%7CNifty%2050&expiry=2026-05-29&date=2026-05-07&interval=2' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {your_access_token}'

Python

import requests

url = 'https://api.upstox.com/v2/market/change-oi'
params = {
    'instrument_key': 'NSE_INDEX|Nifty 50',
    'expiry': '2026-05-29',
    'date': '2026-05-07',
    'interval': 2
}
headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer {your_access_token}'
}

response = requests.get(url, params=params, headers=headers)
print(response.text)

Node.js

const axios = require('axios');

const url = 'https://api.upstox.com/v2/market/change-oi';
const params = {
  instrument_key: 'NSE_INDEX|Nifty 50',
  expiry: '2026-05-29',
  date: '2026-05-07',
  interval: 2
};
const headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  'Accept': 'application/json',
  'Authorization': 'Bearer {your_access_token}'
};

axios.get(url, { params, headers })
  .then(response => console.log(response.data))
  .catch(error => console.error(error));

Java

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String url = "https://api.upstox.com/v2/market/change-oi"
            + "?instrument_key=NSE_INDEX%7CNifty%2050"
            + "&expiry=2026-05-29"
            + "&date=2026-05-07"
            + "&interval=2";

        HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create(url))
            .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
            .header("Accept", "application/json")
            .header("Authorization", "Bearer {your_access_token}")
            .build();

        HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

PHP

<?php

$url = 'https://api.upstox.com/v2/market/change-oi?'
    . http_build_query([
        'instrument_key' => 'NSE_INDEX|Nifty 50',
        'expiry'         => '2026-05-29',
        'date'           => '2026-05-07',
        'interval'       => 2,
    ]);

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'Accept: application/json',
    'Authorization: Bearer {your_access_token}',
]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;
?>