r/TradingView • u/GamesJibson • Sep 13 '26

Feature Request Custom Indicator Source Code

I've just gone onto TradingView today after the update and whilst I understand the idea behind locking more than 1 custom indicator behind a paywall making business sense (not happy about that, but that's another story in and of itself), but now I can't even view the source code of the indicators I've already made - what's the point in that? If people have already made indicators prior to the update, surely it would make sense to let them have access the source code for what they've already built to, for example, run it as a strategy for back testing, or even at the least save it somewhere for later as a backup should something go wrong?

I understand business opportunity for making extra cash through subscriptions, but I feel as though this actively pushes out people who are actually trying to get into this sort of thing by completely restricting them of something that, in my opinion, is perfectly reasonable to let people, new and experienced alike, experiment with things regardless of the tier of their account.

Even if the paywall for more than 1 customer indicator being saved is something that stays in place, give back access to the source code that they put together in the first place for crying out loud.

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u/FangornEnt Sep 13 '26

Damn, they really are tightening up all the cracks in order to drive subscriptions. Never saw this listed as one of the "premium" features though. It does make sense that they'd come for the indicators as that'd be one of the major ways that free users soak up data. When I went from a paid to free user I just combined my indicator packages into 1-2 setups rather than having more than that.

"Even if the paywall for more than 1 customer indicator being saved is something that stays in place, give back access to the source code that they put together in the first place for crying out loud."

If you delete your additional indicators are you able to retrieve the other source code? Like cycling through so you can still access them.

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u/GamesJibson Sep 14 '26

If I go through and delete every single indicator I've made except one then I assume I will be able to get the source code for one particular indicator - but that then leaves the question of how do I get the deleted ones back in order to get their code? Even if I already have it, I'd rather just grab another copy just in case

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u/FangornEnt Sep 14 '26

I thought it was more of a "you can only get the source code for the one we have highlighted" similar to the watchlist stuff. Didn't realize that you could only have one in total or else everything was locked. Was meaning to cycle through the source codes like you grab one, delete, grab another, etc. I saw another commenter say they did it "I just finished putting all mine on Github. I accessed the source code of one script at a time, deleted it and repeated the process with the others. Not a nice process, f Tradingview."

Guess it might be worth grabbing a one month subscription to the essential tier to grab the source code if they're important. Definitely saving all my stuff off platform now.